#3198·ImageSharp

TIFF CMYK ICC Profile Color Rendering Issue

Author: IAMManuelCreated Sep 18, 2026Updated Sep 18, 2026
Labelsneeds triage

Prerequisites

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  • I have verified if the problem exist in both DEBUG and RELEASE mode
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ImageSharp version

4.1.2

Other ImageSharp packages and versions

  • SixLabors.ImageSharp.Drawing 3.1.0 - SixLabors.ImageSharp.Web 4.0.1

Environment (Operating system, version and so on)

Windows 11

.NET Framework version

.NET 10.0

Description

When loading a TIFF image with an embedded CMYK ICC profile using ColorProfileHandling.Preserve, the colors are rendered incorrectly and do not match the original image. The preserved version shows noticeably different colors compared to the original, while the converted version appears to produce more accurate results.

This suggests an issue with how ImageSharp handles CMYK ICC profile preservation when converting to the display color space (sRGB). The color transformation is not producing the expected visual output that matches the original image.

Steps to Reproduce

csharp
using SixLabors.ImageSharp;
using SixLabors.ImageSharp.Formats;

const string inputPath = "cmyk_image.tiff";

using (Image image = Image.Load(
    new DecoderOptions
    {
        ColorProfileHandling = ColorProfileHandling.Preserve
    },
    inputPath))
{
    image.Save("cmyk_image.preserve.tiff");
}

using (Image image = Image.Load(
    new DecoderOptions
    {
        ColorProfileHandling = ColorProfileHandling.Convert
    },
    inputPath))
{
    image.Save("cmyk_image.converted.tiff");
}

Open these files in the same color-managed image viewer: ◦ cmyk_image.tiff ◦ cmyk_image.preserve.tiff ◦ cmyk_image.converted.tiff

4.Compare both generated images with the original. Iv'e also add the images produce by the code

Expected result: Both generated images should visually match the original CMYK TIFF.

Actual result: Both generated images have noticeable color differences. The output created with Preserve differs the most from the original.

Images

cmyk_image.preserve.tiff cmyk_image.preserve.tiff cmyk_image.tiff cmyk_image.tiff cmyk_image.converted.tiff cmyk_image.converted.tiff