How important is it to embed an SRGB profile in your image?

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The context:
A couple of my pictures were critiqued on another forum by two different people on two different pictures suggesting that the pictures may have appeared better with the SRGB profile embedded.
In Photoshop to export JPEGs - I usually prefer the File-export-save for web(legacy) option because the metadata is included with file. Also the "Convert to SRGB" box is checked in my export preferences.
The "Export as" option has a two check boxes- convert to SRGB & embed color profile, but no metadata is included - only copyright and contact info, which was the main reason for my preference of the former.

My question is : If the image is converted to SRGB during export, would someone need an SRGB profile attached to the image, in addition? And why? If yes, where all would one need to do so?

Your thoughts and opinions please
 
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Krish said:
The context:
A couple of my pictures were critiqued on another forum by two different people on two different pictures suggesting that the pictures may have appeared better with the SRGB profile embedded.
In Photoshop to export JPEGs - I usually prefer the File-export-save for web(legacy) option because the metadata is included with file. Also the "Convert to SRGB" box is checked in my export preferences.
The "Export as" option has a two check boxes- convert to SRGB & embed color profile, but no metadata is included - only copyright and contact info, which was the main reason for my preference of the former.

My question is : If the image is converted to SRGB during export, would someone need an SRGB profile attached to the image, in addition? And why? If yes, where all would one need to do so?

Your thoughts and opinions please
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They don't need the sRGB profile - it's cooked into the file and would display as expected on mobiles, internet, computers etc. For printing, even if you export it as a JPG but embed the desired colour profile e.g. ProPhoto RGB the lab will print it using that colour profile. If you check "convert to sRGB", then the lab will print using sRGB
 
I am not totally sure, but I think there could be a few situations where the software displaying the image not seeing what is embedded might default to the display/monitor color space. If it is P3 or Adobe RGB or whatever not srgb there might be a mismatch in how it looks. I'm not sure as I use export as and don't care about including the metadata except for the copyright (which export as includes).

I'm thinking if you did care to preserve the metadata you could send it back to lightroom and export from there, or within photoshop you could make sure your working file is saved then use file/convert to profile to switch to srgb then image/image size to resize it, then use file/save a copy and pick jpeg from the drop down and click the embed profile checkbox. This should preserve the metadata. Then close that file without saving so you are not stuck with the small srgb in the working file. Probably Lightroom with a preset is easier.
 
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