Changing image color profiles is a task I find myself doing a lot. Thankfully, advanced programs like Photoshop are not required to accomplish this. We can use sips. Sips is a simple macOS command line tool for manipulating images. Here we will use it to extract a color profile from an image and apply it to some other image.
Sometimes, it can be difficult to locate the color profile you want to apply. One simple way to get around this is to convert a file in an editor with the desired profile, then extract it from the output image with sips.
sips -x profilename.icc inputimage.jpgThis is a really simple command.
-x/--extractProfile sets the destination for
the extracted profile.
sips -M inputprofile.icc perceptual -o outputimage.jpg inputimage.jpgThere is not too much to explain here either.
-M/--matchToWithIntent takes two arguments: a
profile and a rendering intent. The intent determines the way colors are
converted to the new profile. Perceptual retains visual equivalence.
-o/--out sets the output file destination.