How can I get Preview and Aperture to share a single color space?

December 15, 2006 7:19 PM

Why do my photos look different in Aperture after I white-balanced them with Preview?

I'm using OSX Tiger. I took a bunch of pictures with my Canon in sRGB. I changed the white balance in Preview (I had no other color-correction utility, and Preview seemed to work fine), and when I got Aperture and dropped my pictures in, they were obviously super-saturated and darkened, my guess being a gamma shift. I don't understand why this would be the case since the jpgs are in fact color-profiled. Furthermore, there seems to be no way to view or change the color space in Aperture. Anyone got any ideas?

I also tried dropping in a photo straight off my camera and it darkened and saturated that picture too.

Also, I'm looking for an image editing app that can batch re-encode photos into jpgs with quality and size adjustment.

posted by BlackLeotardFront to computers & internet (1 comment total)

Automator should be installed on your system. It can re-encode and resize those photos en masse, though I can't find a way to change the jpeg compression. Both of those actions are listed under Preview.

Automator also has an "Apply ColorSync Profile to Images" action. I've never used it, but maybe it can help with the colorspace issues you seem to be having between Preview and Aperture (which kind of baffle me).
posted by cyclopticgaze at 9:39 PM on December 15, 2006