I am from Germany and have already posted my question in the German Inkscape forum. Here: https://inkscape.org/forums/Deutsch/farben-beim-exportieren-farbprofil-einstellen-weiss-jemand-damit-bescheid/?c=71060#c71060

A friend had edited a picture with Photoshop. This picture was then printed on an adhesive film a year ago. The colors of the print are great. However, 20 - 30 places in the image where there were small errors bothered me.

I have been working with Inkscape (Version 1.3.2) for about a month now. Image editing is still completely new to me. But it worked, and I was able to correct all the places in the image. So far so good.

The corrected image was sent to the same print shop. It was printed on foil again. But this time the colors are quite dull and not as bright as the first print. 🤦‍♂️

I have already found one possible cause!

So I went looking for the error. I looked at the information for both files on the Mac. You can already see the color difference in the preview images. My friend's file contains information that is missing in my file.

Under Color profile: RGB it also says Color profile: Adobe RGB (1998). The latter is missing for me. Below that it says Alpha channel:. It says No for his image and Yes for mine.

Now I have searched for it in Inkscape. In the document settings (File > Document settings...) there is the Colors tab in the 4th position. All possible color profiles can be found there.

The desired color profile is also included. Here it is Adobe-RGB-1998, but regardless of whether I choose this or any other, when I export my file, I always see the color profile sRGB-IEC61966-2.1 in my exported file when I call up 'Information' on the Mac.

I have now closed Inkscape and restarted it. Now I no longer see a color profile in the exported file. 😳

I am an absolute beginner in Inkscape, and it seems to me to be an advanced question.

If someone could help me that would be wonderful. 😊

Kind regards

ojo

PS: My friend says that in Photoshop it is better to convert the graphic to the corresponding color profile instead of just assigning the color profile. But he's in Peru at the moment and I don't want to keep pestering him with questions.

"While Inkscape doesn’t do color separation or any of the fancy tricks like trapping, what it can do is saving colors in an ICC profile’s color space, and you can tell it which profile to use."

https://librearts.org/2011/09/how-to-get-cmyk-colors-from-inkscape-to-scribus/

@TylerDurden

This article is from 2011 (!) for Inkscape version 0.48. Is this still the correct explanation for version 1.3.2?

I had already found this article, but by the date and the version I had discarded to translate and read this.

@TylerDurden The  ~/.local/share/color/icc  folder does not exist on my mac. So this folder is not in the general library or the user library, correct? Should I create it? Is it an other folder today?

@TylerDurden In Versions and limitations the article says: "Support for icc-color right now is more of a hack that works only when you use CMYK color profiles in Inkscape. It won’t work for either RGB or LAB color profiles." My question was: How do I convert my SVG file into the Adobe RGB (1998) color profile?