As discussed in a post here and previously requested here. Note I am on Windows.
I have found that if I export as default ICC Profile sRGB, no ICC profile is attached.
If I specify a custom profile of “sRGB Color Space Profile.icm” no ICC profile is attached.
If I create an ICC profile from an image exported from Nikon NX Studio and then export and specify this new profile as the custom profile, it is exported with the image.
I have no idea if exporting with this Nikon profile actually impacts the image, and therefore I do not consider it a good workaround.
Request: When exporting to jpeg with sRGB, allow the appropriate DXO ICC profile to be optionally attached to the image.
I was also having this strange irritating issue and managed to find a solution.
I also was having color mismatches I traced to the cause of the srgb profile not being embedded. Come on DXO.
In irfanview, as others have stated, one can choose to have untagged images be presumed srgb, and this would display them correctly. However, this breaks other images, so isn’t an option.
What I found is that if you download the “srgb2014” file from https://www.color.org/srgbprofiles.xalter, put it in your color profile folder, and specify this one manually in your DXO export profile, it will embed and everything will work properly.
Hope this helps someone’s day! Cheers.
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Deneice
(French photographer | PL7, Film Pack 6 and NIK 7 suite user)
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Still the same issue in 2025…poor support of embedded ICC profile while Dxo added a Widegamut (that is for sure a great feature!). @w.sylwester I finally found the same way to force Dxo to embed the ICC profile. I personally use the v4 and I could read it nicely with xnview, affinity, photoshop etc…as expected…
That’s a pity that with so much conversations in this forum about this subject, Dxo does not care about it. So much cares (and advertising…) about management color to finally rush the last step and not the least…
But how many times do we have to repeat that DxO is simply following the rule that a file exported in sRGB (sRGB IEC61966-2.1) absolutely does not require an embedded profile!
Any bitmap display software should be able to display it correctly simply by reading the corresponding tag in the metadata. If it doesn’t, it’s its problem, not DxO’s!
If you want to export with an sRGB profile other than this basic ICC profile, simply use the corresponding options in PhotoLab: import the ICC profile, then select this profile from the profile list: it will then be embedded in the export.