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OP @Emeraldo's answer is on-target: you can use the sips (scriptable image processing system) terminal command to remove the color profile from a JPEG (or PNG) image. This is often necessary to get colors in an image produced with a graphics app to render correctly in a browser.

I will add that Apple provides a script that will do this for you without you having to open a terminal or remember the slightly non-trivial command syntax. In /System/Library/Scripts/ColorSync (/Library/Scripts/ColorSync on Catalina) is an AppleScript droplet, Remove.app. If you drop one or more image files on it, it removes the color profile(s). If you open the droplet with Script Editor, you'll find it runs a sips command, just as @Emeraldo described. The original question indicated a hope to automate the process in Automator; this script would be a great starting place for that (if its function as a droplet isn't already enough for the stated batch conversion task).

I don't know for how long this script has been available, but on my High Sierra system the app file has a 2012 creation data. The script itself has comment giving a 2009 date. So I suspect it's been around for a while. I wish I'd known about it years ago. I used to use a Dashboard widget called "PNG Pong" for this, but it's no long available. I learned about the droplet from a 2010 Adobe forum post: How to remove color profile from an image | Adobe Community (though the script's location has slightly changed since 2010).

OP @Emeraldo's answer is on-target: you can use the sips (scriptable image processing system) terminal command to remove the color profile from a JPEG (or PNG) image. This is often necessary to get colors in an image produced with a graphics app to render correctly in a browser.

I will add that Apple provides a script that will do this for you without you having to open a terminal or remember the slightly non-trivial command syntax. In /System/Library/Scripts/ColorSync is an AppleScript droplet, Remove.app. If you drop one or more image files on it, it removes the color profile(s). If you open the droplet with Script Editor, you'll find it runs a sips command, just as @Emeraldo described. The original question indicated a hope to automate the process in Automator; this script would be a great starting place for that (if its function as a droplet isn't already enough for the stated batch conversion task).

I don't know for how long this script has been available, but on my High Sierra system the app file has a 2012 creation data. The script itself has comment giving a 2009 date. So I suspect it's been around for a while. I wish I'd known about it years ago. I used to use a Dashboard widget called "PNG Pong" for this, but it's no long available. I learned about the droplet from a 2010 Adobe forum post: How to remove color profile from an image | Adobe Community (though the script's location has slightly changed since 2010).

OP @Emeraldo's answer is on-target: you can use the sips (scriptable image processing system) terminal command to remove the color profile from a JPEG (or PNG) image. This is often necessary to get colors in an image produced with a graphics app to render correctly in a browser.

I will add that Apple provides a script that will do this for you without you having to open a terminal or remember the slightly non-trivial command syntax. In /System/Library/Scripts/ColorSync (/Library/Scripts/ColorSync on Catalina) is an AppleScript droplet, Remove.app. If you drop one or more image files on it, it removes the color profile(s). If you open the droplet with Script Editor, you'll find it runs a sips command, just as @Emeraldo described. The original question indicated a hope to automate the process in Automator; this script would be a great starting place for that (if its function as a droplet isn't already enough for the stated batch conversion task).

I don't know for how long this script has been available, but on my High Sierra system the app file has a 2012 creation data. The script itself has comment giving a 2009 date. So I suspect it's been around for a while. I wish I'd known about it years ago. I used to use a Dashboard widget called "PNG Pong" for this, but it's no long available. I learned about the droplet from a 2010 Adobe forum post: How to remove color profile from an image | Adobe Community (though the script's location has slightly changed since 2010).

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OP @Emeraldo's answer is on-target: you can use the sips (scriptable image processing system) terminal command to remove the color profile from a JPEG (or PNG) image. This is often necessary to get colors in an image produced with a graphics app to render correctly in a browser.

I will add that Apple provides a script that will do this for you without you having to open a terminal or remember the slightly non-trivial command syntax. In /System/Library/Scripts/ColorSync is an AppleScript droplet, Remove.app. If you drop one or more image files on it, it removes the color profile(s). If you open the droplet with Script Editor, you'll find it runs a sips command, just as @Emeraldo described. The original question indicated a hope to automate the process in Automator; this script would be a great starting place for that (if its function as a droplet isn't already enough for the stated batch conversion task).

I don't know for how long this script has been available, but on my High Sierra system the app file has a 2012 creation data. The script itself has comment giving a 2009 date. So I suspect it's been around for a while. I wish I'd known about it years ago. I used to use a Dashboard widget called "PNG Pong" for this, but it's no long available. I learned about the droplet from a 2010 Adobe forum post: How to remove color profile from an image | Adobe Community (though the script's location has slightly changed since 2010).