Photoshop is the most complete and professional professional image editing program we can find. This program has all kinds of functions and features designed to allow all users to work in the most comfortable and professional way possible. Thanks to many of these functions we can ensure that the design (for example, color) is always kept intact, regardless of the computer on which we open the project. However, some of these functions can even be annoying when we use it for non-professional personal use. For example, the “Profile missing” error message that usually appears every time we open saved projects.
Opening a photo with the wrong color profile can cause the photo’s colors and settings to appear wrong. To prevent this from happening, Photoshop tries to assign to each file a color profile that allows you to always work with the same values. When this color profile is not embedded in the file, this is when the following error message appears.
What does the color profile error message mean in Photoshop
The “Profile is missing” error message that appears when opening documents in Photoshop tells us that there are no embedded color profiles in your files. Photoshop allows us to open the file as is, without color profile, or convert it to other predefined profiles. Unless we know what we are doing, we always recommend leaving the files as is. Converting an image to another color profile (such as going from RGB or CMYK to ICC) can cause blacks to be less black and blurry, or bright colors to appear dull.
If we are using Photoshop for professional editing, we must solve this problem by creating our own color profiles and assigning them to the projects we save. In this way, even when we open the project on another computer, as the profile is embedded, we can have the same color settings, and avoid problems.
However, if we use Photoshop on a personal level, it is most likely that we will never have problems with color profiles. Therefore, we can optimize the work with this program by hiding the color profile error message that appears when opening files in it.
Hide Photoshop “Missing Profile” Error
To hide this error message in Photoshop, we must access the color settings of the editing program. To do this, open the ” Edit> Color Settings ” menu, or use the Photoshop keyboard shortcut “Shift + Control + K” to get directly to this option.
Next we will see a new ” Color Settings ” window. Within this window, the section that interests us is the ” Color management standards “. Here we will find 3 sections that will allow us to hide the “Profile is missing” message when opening files in Photoshop.
We must deactivate the two boxes of “Profile differences”, and the “Profiles are missing” box to deactivate the error message.
We save the changes in Photoshop and that’s it. From this moment on, when we open a document in Photoshop, it will open automatically, without asking.
Save projects with color profile
If we want to do things right and we don’t want to disable this error message in Photoshop, then what we should do is make sure that when saving the projects we create, they maintain their own color profile.
To do this, when we have the project in Photoshop, what we must do is open the ” Save as ” window (Control + Shift + S), and in the window that appears, check the option to embed the color profile used in the project.
In this way, when we go to open the file again on the computer, the color profile will be loaded. In addition to not seeing the error message, we can be working with the same colors on any computer, eliminating problems and making sure that our photo always has a professional finish.
