CG Pundit

Have you tried bringing in your latest Color Corrected images from Photshop into your flash project only to find that the colors don’t look the same. Now a lot of hair globally has been shredded over this issue including my small contribution. This post is for my future reference and for those poor souls who were not able to find the help that i could and landed here.

Background Story : Flash as a software only supports SRGB profile whereas Photoshop as a solution has to support a range of profiles. Now if the profile of your image is not SRGB the color is going to look different in flash.

Step 1: Gaining this knowledge i immediately Loaded my image in Photoshop. Selected Edit>Assign Profile option and assigned SRGB Profile as a working profile and saved the image.

Step 2 : Now if it was this simple then i would not need a post for future reference.My happiness was not to last for long as i realised the image still didnt show the right colors on import into Flash. After some online scrambling i realised that the SRGB profile doesn’t get activated by itself and i needed to add a small AS3 snippet to make it work. So here we go

stage.colorCorrection = ColorCorrection.ON;.

That’s it, the colors are now synchronized and i am a happy man.