Photoshop assigns wrong color profile after exporting textures through Painter PS plugin

dzibarik · Oct 2016

In Painter it looks like this -

Image: http://image.prntscr.com/image/83e332f0086148f88bd53b3eea431bf7.png

In PS it looks like this -

Image: http://image.prntscr.com/image/0e5ac7bfa3104aeea2bb58e3abf88cb2.png

Color picker in PS suddenly washed out too -

Image: http://image.prntscr.com/image/d37589e060414814af7c6f5b3acdd966.png

Converting everything into working color profile (SRGB) just ruins colors. Snapshot shows right color though!

Need help

Jerc · Oct 2016

If you use sRGB as the color format of your BaseColor channel in Painter, Photoshop should not have changed anything. It looks like the plugin thought your channel was in Linear and switched the PSD to linear colors and blending.
If you use the Edit > Assign Profile (not Convert to profile) option in PS, do the colors go back to normal?

dzibarik · Nov 2016

unfortunately not. it's still wrong. Base color is in sRGB8. Can you take a look at the project if I'm permitted to send it?

Jerc · Nov 2016

Sure, please send me a link via PM.

Gillespionage · Sep 2017

Hey guys,
Did you find a solution to this? I am having the similar problem to this except it only shows itself when I save off a Targa. Then the colours are much much darker in the Targa.

Exported PSD

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/ch/qqudy5zxzcc1.png

Saved TARGA

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/7a/m4b38fh3abyk.png

This problem is apparently signified by an "*" at the top of the document. So it says RBG/8* instead of RGB/8.
It means that a Color Profile hasn't been assigned and it thinks the image is using a Custom profile.
Here's what we see from the Assign Profile menu (Edit > Assign Profile...)

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/l9/sq6hhom1tp5w.png

and then

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/qu/6uv527wnp90f.png

I tried saving off a collapsed jpg, which does keep the correct colour but it's then darkened again when I save off a Targa (the jpg also has (RGB/8*) at the top).
I've also tried duplicating the layers to a new document but it then makes the layers darker in that too.
Even if either of these solutions had worked, it's still not an ideal workflow as I want to have workable PSD's for people to be able to edit if they need to.

I hope you guys can help!
Thanks!

DawnBoy · Sep 2017

How to solve the specific？It bothered me for a long time

dzibarik · Sep 2017

the only way is to keep PSD from Painter as it is and make a macro that flattens all layers on export because there is slight difference in how blending modes work in Painter in PS.

it's ok workaround actually

Gillespionage · Sep 2017

Doh!

That's not ideal because the reason I want it as a PSD is so that it can be edited if need be. Not everyone I work with has Painter or knows how to use it yet.

It's annoying because this makes the option to export layers to Photoshop absolutely pointless. Why on earth would you want to do it if the result did not correspond with the look in Painter? A flattened one is fine, but then why bother with a PSD at all?

I hope they do come up with a solution to this.

Thanks for getting back though @dzibarik

goteki3d · Jul 2023

@Gillespionage

After exporting the file from SP to PS, change the profile in PS to CMYK. Then go back to RGB again.

image ---> mode ---> CMYK (dont merge layers)
image ---> mode ---> RGB
Export to TGA.

Photoshop assigns wrong color profile after exporting textures through Painter PS plugin

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