Might confused about Photoshop color settings

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I have two different monitors, which I have just calibrated with a Pantone Huey Pro. I have noticed in the past that colours in Photoshop look different when viewing them outside Photoshop.

Could any of you direct me as to how to best configure these settings?
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Also, when saving a graphic for web, there are a few options that I'm unsure of. Should I tick "ICC Profile", "Convert to sRGB" and "Include XMP"?

PS: After calibrating using the Huey, everything looks more red, and the cursor is a faint green, yet if I go to the cursor appearance menu in Windows, the pointers are white like normal. What's going on?
 
Whatever you do, don't use your monitor as your working space. Choose either sRGB or Adobe RGB depending on your needs.

So you'd be wanting something like this:

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When saving for web you'll need to have already assigned a working RGB profile (I'm guessing sRGB for your needs) and then select the 'ICC Profile' option in the SFW window.
 
And when I open a document that has no colour profile or that has a different one, what option should I select?
 
Generally speaking you'll want to assign a profile or convert to your working RGB space in both cases. And I'd certainly say your working space should be sRGB.
 
glitch said:
Generally speaking you'll want to assign a profile or convert to your working RGB space in both cases. And I'd certainly say your working space should be sRGB.
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... but only if the input source is a digital camera with an sRGB-like gamut.

If your input device's colour space has a wider gamut [or if you're creating images from scratch], you don't really want to irreversibly downgrade to a narrower gamut [and sRGB is quite narrow; greens in particular].

Especially if there's the possibility of having prints done at a later date by a pro photo lab - they'll likely have proper photographic printers [i.e. ones that use chemical processes] with gamuts wider than sRGB.

In these instances, it's better to keep the original profile and use the Proof view, as it's non-destructive, then convert to the desired colour space when outputting to a different file [e.g. ticking the 'convert to sRGB' checkbox if you're saving for Web]. If you're only ever going to output to the Web, though then yes - glitch's suggestion is fine. :)

Also, I seem to remember that including an ICC profile with web-bound images isn't a good idea, as most browsers ignore them. This can cause unexpected colour shifts that can be pretty drastic.

So for web images, then: sRGB with no profiles embedded.
 
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