The document's colors were converted to the working space

I've used various version of Print Shop Pro in the past (I still like 
version 7 the best) but I bought X2 for work and need to figure out what I'm 
going wrong or what I can do to make this work for me.

I'm opening a JPG file and it pops up a window titles "Color profile 
mismatch" with the following message.

"The document's colors were converted to the working space
Embedded: KODAK SWOP Proofer CMYK  - Coated Stock
Working: sRGB Color Space Profile.icm"

It will open the file, but the colors aren't even close.
I can't see what about my workspace I need to change to make it happy?

Any help would be appreciated!

Kelvin 

Kelvin wrote:
> 
> I've used various version of Print Shop Pro in the past

However, this is a Paint Shop Pro newsgroup. Try Broderbund
Software for Print Shop Pro (if that is what you really mean)
http://www.broderbund.com/jump.jsp?itemType=PRODUCT&itemID=841

> (I still like
> version 7 the best) but I bought X2 for work and need to figure out what
I'm
> going wrong or what I can do to make this work for me.
> 
> I'm opening a JPG file and it pops up a window titles "Color profile
> mismatch" with the following message.

Where did you get this file from?
 
> "The document's colors were converted to the working space
> Embedded: KODAK SWOP Proofer CMYK  - Coated Stock
> Working: sRGB Color Space Profile.icm"

As far as I know, JPEG files are RGB so it is silly to have a
CMYK color profile associated with the JPEG image. If you are
using Paint Shop Pro (and not Print Shop Pro) tell PSP to
ignore color profiles embedded in the file. That should bee
under File > Preferences > Color Management. Who knows what the
image will look like when it's opened, since it's not clear
where the embedded CMYK profile came from and whether it was
correctly applied. Even if it were, some differences among
certain colors were probably destroyed by the application of
the profile.

> It will open the file, but the colors aren't even close.
> I can't see what about my workspace I need to change to make it happy?

You don't need to change anything about your workspace. The
color working space (i.e. the color space in which you make
color adjustments to your image) is sRGB. This is very
appropriate for images that may also be viewed in web browsers
or slideshows or on computers that are not color managed.
What is silly is applying a CMYK profile to an RGB file. You
need to ask yourself how this profile got embedded in your
file. There is a strong chance this is the result of a mistake
by someone somewhere.

"Kelvin" <someone@domain.com> wrote in message
news:47e80e87$1_2@cnews...
>
> I've used various version of Print Shop Pro in the past (I still like 
> version 7 the best) but I bought X2 for work and need to figure out what 
> I'm going wrong or what I can do to make this work for me.
>
> I'm opening a JPG file and it pops up a window titles "Color profile 
> mismatch" with the following message.
>
> "The document's colors were converted to the working space
> Embedded: KODAK SWOP Proofer CMYK  - Coated Stock
> Working: sRGB Color Space Profile.icm"
>
> It will open the file, but the colors aren't even close.
> I can't see what about my workspace I need to change to make it happy?
>
> Any help would be appreciated!
>
> Kelvin
>
>

Try switching off Color Management:

File>Color Management> un-tick Enable Color Management and see if that
makes 
a difference.
:-)
Joëlle

Joëlle wrote:
> "Kelvin" <someone@domain.com> wrote in message
> news:47e80e87$1_2@cnews...
>>
>> I've used various version of Print Shop Pro in the past (I still like
>> version 7 the best) but I bought X2 for work and need to figure out
>> what I'm going wrong or what I can do to make this work for me.
>>
>> I'm opening a JPG file and it pops up a window titles "Color
profile
>> mismatch" with the following message.
>>
>> "The document's colors were converted to the working space
>> Embedded: KODAK SWOP Proofer CMYK  - Coated Stock
>> Working: sRGB Color Space Profile.icm"
>>
>> It will open the file, but the colors aren't even close.
>> I can't see what about my workspace I need to change to make it
>> happy? Any help would be appreciated!
>>
>> Kelvin
>>
>>
>
> Try switching off Color Management:
>
> File>Color Management> un-tick Enable Color Management and see if
> that makes a difference.
> :-)
> Joëlle

It will not but telling it to ignore embed colour working spaces under, 
"File > Colour Management > colour working space" might get rid
of the 
message but as PSP can not work under CYMK, then it will not look right as 
windows displays in sRGB and there is no direct conversation of some hues 
mainly in the blue and Green areas
-- 
Trev
You can always tell a Yorkshire man,
But you can't tell him much. 

Spandex Rutabaga wrote:
> Kelvin wrote:
>>
>> I've used various version of Print Shop Pro in the past
>
> However, this is a Paint Shop Pro newsgroup. Try Broderbund
> Software for Print Shop Pro (if that is what you really mean)
> http://www.broderbund.com/jump.jsp?itemType=PRODUCT&itemID=841
>
>> (I still like
>> version 7 the best) but I bought X2 for work and need to figure out
>> what I'm going wrong or what I can do to make this work for me.
>>
>> I'm opening a JPG file and it pops up a window titles "Color
profile
>> mismatch" with the following message.
>
> Where did you get this file from?
>
>> "The document's colors were converted to the working space
>> Embedded: KODAK SWOP Proofer CMYK  - Coated Stock
>> Working: sRGB Color Space Profile.icm"
>
> As far as I know, JPEG files are RGB so it is silly to have a
> CMYK color profile associated with the JPEG image. If you are
> using Paint Shop Pro (and not Print Shop Pro) tell PSP to
> ignore color profiles embedded in the file. That should bee
> under File > Preferences > Color Management. Who knows what the
> image will look like when it's opened, since it's not clear
> where the embedded CMYK profile came from and whether it was
> correctly applied. Even if it were, some differences among
> certain colors were probably destroyed by the application of
> the profile.
>
>> It will open the file, but the colors aren't even close.
>> I can't see what about my workspace I need to change to make it
>> happy?
>
> You don't need to change anything about your workspace. The
> color working space (i.e. the color space in which you make
> color adjustments to your image) is sRGB. This is very
> appropriate for images that may also be viewed in web browsers
> or slideshows or on computers that are not color managed.
> What is silly is applying a CMYK profile to an RGB file. You
> need to ask yourself how this profile got embedded in your
> file. There is a strong chance this is the result of a mistake
> by someone somewhere.

You can save a CMYK format JPG from Photoshop. I'll post a couple of 
images, but I'll put them in a reply because the CMYK version is 675 KB 
(the sRGB one is only 67 KB). The images are both the same and the same 
size (408 x 306 pixels), both have embedded colour profiles, and were 
saved from Photoshop CS2 using a "medium" compression.

-- 
Tim Morrison
C-Tech volunteer