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Thanks. I understood that would work from the outset, but it is very inconvenient to have to change default color setting every time one wants to use a different rendering intent, and it's easy to forget to check what it's set for before each conversion. And what about soft proofing using different intents too? I agree, hopefully the engineers will tend to these issues in the future, but meanwhile I think AP is annoyingly crippled and a color profiling accident just waiting to happen.

Since there has been no reply to my last comment, I'll assume that Affinity's icc color engine is a non-starter and it makes the program kind of impossible to use as a stand alone editor since I still need Photoshop to do icc conversions with a choice of rendering intents. It's very sad that the software engineers haven't got a clue about real world workflows in professional environments.

Make sure that you convert to the printer's profile rather than assign it to your file. When you say 'attach it' I'm hearing that you might assign it and that would be entirely wrong.

Profile conversions in AP need to be addressed and soon. As far as I'm concerned, it's the weakest part of the program and it pretty much is keeping me from using it or recommending it to any advanced user. I hope the developers are as concerned about it as they should be. It's a good program, but I must export whatever I create in it to Photoshop before I'm done just to use Photoshop's icc profile conversion engine, so there's little point to using AP in the first place.

Thanks, that helps. However, I still don't see an option for choosing a rendering intent when doing a profile conversion. For example, perceptual vs. relative or absolute. I see that in preferences, but not under convert to profile.

The CMYK profiles weren't showing up there before, but I see them now. Still there is no choice of rendering intent or the originating profile. Is there even a way to display the current document profile?

Changing the default settings for each conversion is unworkable in my world.

Are you saying that I should convert to CMYK using the default profile first, and then I'd have to convert it to the CMYK I really wanted in the first place? Double conversions aren't good.

I'm new to AP but an old hand in Photoshop. I can't see where it's possible to convert an image to a custom CMYK profie and then save it with that profile embedded. I also need the options to use absolute colorimetric as well as relative (w or w/o bpc) and perceptual intents. None of the CMYK profiles show up in the conversion dialog, but I do see them in the default choices. Using the default conversions between color spaces won't work for me however.