Photoshop not only displays embedded profile mismatch alert

174 Establishing Your Settings

	Figure 3-11: Checking the Ask When Opening option allows you to override your default color management policy setting.

• Discard the Embedded Profile (Don’t Color Manage): Photoshop doesn’t utilize any color management when opening files but dis-plays the file in your working space.

If you select the Ask When Pasting option for Profile Mismatches, Photoshop prompts you when you drag and drop layers or selections that have the same color mode (see Book II, Chapter 2 for more on modes), but different color profiles. In the Paste Profile Mismatch alert dialog box, you have two options:

• Convert (Preserve Color Appearance): Photoshop converts and matches the appearance of the color rather than the RGB numerical values. For example, the RGB color of R 152, G 122, B 250 may be a different shade of purple in one RGB working space versus another. If you preserve the numerical values, the shades won’t match. If you preserve the appearance, Photoshop attempts to maintain the two shades.

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• Leave As Is (Don’t Color Manage): This leaves the image untagged and without a color profile, but displays the image in your working space.