7. The Menus / 7.6 The Tool Menu

7.6.11 Color/Set Color Profile

PhotoLine can assign a ICC color profile (see chapter 2.11) to layers, pages and a whole documents. On displaying a layer on the screen the color profiles will be used according to the following rules:

If your document is a picture (see chapter 2.10) the background layer cannot have a color profile on its own. Instead the profile will be assigned to the whole document. In the Attributes-dialog (see chapter 4.8) you can inspect, whether a color profile is assigned to a layer, a page or a document. Here you can delete the color profile, too, so you don‘t have to always use Set Color Profile.

By assigning a color profile the data of a image layer isn‘t changed, but they will be interpreted differently on displaying. Therefore assigning a color profile can change the appearance of a layer significantly.

In addition to the effects above assigning a color profile to a document or page has one more important meaning. By assigning a color profile the working color space of a document/page is changed. Without color profile documents are working in RGB-mode. But after assigning a profile (i.e. a gray profile or a CMYK profile), the color space of the profile will be the color space of the document. This will influence many parts of PhotoLine: