I am too David, so no worries. And because I don’t really understand it so well, I went searching and found a couple of statements that may help. And thanks for posting the screenshot, that tells me the sRGB profile was “Assigned” rather than “Converted”. Also, the profile should be “embeded” in the JPG. From the internet:
Assign is what you use if the file doesn’t have a profile at all - or if someone assigned the wrong profile previously.
When you convert into a different color space, you’re not supposed to see any difference in general appearance. The numbers are remapped into the new color space, preserving appearance. That’s the whole idea of color management.
To better understand the difference, open an image and put the histogram on top. When you convert, the histogram changes, but the image stays the same. If you assign, the histogram is unchanged because there’s no remapping. But the image changes because the numbers get a new meaning.
Also,
Assigning a profile doesn’t change the document’s color values. It only changes how Photoshop interprets those values, which may significantly alter the appearance of colors on your screen.
So what I take out of this is that if a Profile is only “assigned,” the color values don’t change - however, when presented in a browser, which then “interprets” the colors rather than displaying how it’s told to display them.
When you “convert” to sRGB say from Adobe 1998 or ProPhoto you shouldn’t see and changes in appearance. The color values get remapped to the new space - hence they display properly in PS or a browser.
Maybe someone who knows and understands more can chime in. I use the classic “Save for Web” dialogue (Actually one of TK’s actions in his panel), which calls the Save for Web dialogue. Below is the screenshot where one would select the “embed color profile” and “convert to sRGB”
In a nutshell, my working space when editing images is ProPhoto RGB or Adobe 1998. After re-sizing and sharpening for the web, the image is “converted” to sRBG and the profile embeded in the file and saved as JPG. This insures it will display as you viewed it in PS.
I think.
