What does LR do when you import an image file with no embedded profile?

The image data is assumed to be sRGB (for RGB images) or gamma 2.2 (for grayscale images).

Excellent ... thanks!

Any thought to adding a "how do you want to handle this file?" option?

Some very useful applications ... like AutoPanoPro ... seem to have a nasty habit of creating output without embedded profiles.

Say one imports three RAW files that are intended to be stitched by APP into LR ... you export them as AdobeRGB TIFFs to APP ... you stitch and save a new 16-bit TIFF.

In order to get LR to correctly read this resulting file as having been encoded as aRGB, one has to open the APP TIFF in Photoshop (or similar) and assign aRGB - or whatever the correct profile is.

Not the end of the world ... and kinda kludgy ... and definitely more an APP shortcoming than a LR shortcoming ...

But I'd still love to see "missing profile" handling and assignment in future LR release.

Thanks!

Sloppy of them, they need to fix that.


Not necessary if everyone tags their images as they should. LR shouldn’t have to add complexity because some boneheaded software hands it an untagged document. It will assume sRGB and move on, as it should.

I agree with Andrew. Software designed for the purposes of photographic image processing should be encouraged to use color management, and at the very least, to tag images with the appropriate profiles.