Photoshop colour setup problem

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Not sure if this thread goes in here or the PC one, but since its photo related that im using it for , it can go here. Feel free to move.

Anyway, im having trouble setting the colour up correctly in Photoshop.

Im using the Adobe RGB 1998 work space as suggested in various places but the problem i only just noticed is this.

On my windows desktop i have various things running with a white background to the window, like Messenger. Now i took a screendump of the chat window earlier and just out of curiosity pasted it into Photoshop.

The window is pure white on my desktop but what can only be described as yellow/cream colour when pasted into photoshop. Now the weird thing is, if i save the picture out and browse it in windows by double clicking, then its back to white again!

This has got me worried now that any changes i make to photos and then send them off to print, will come back looking crap.

Is there any setup that you can reccomend that would let me see the white as it should be? or is it just something weird in the way windows holds stuff in the clipboard?

The colour profile just seems totally wrong but people say thats the one to use. Ive tried a few other profiles but tbh they didnt make a blind bit of difference.

Any ideas?

I cant really post an example to somewhere like image shack as the problem doesnt seem to be there in windows, just photoshop. I'll see if a digi photo of it shows the problem up.


Just took a quick snap of the screen and you can see the prob, top window is the paste into photoshop, bottom window is how the chat window looks on desktop, totally different colours!



It must be something weird with the cut and paste (alt-PrtScr) When i open that photo up the white is still white but when i do a paste job into a preset new window inside photoshop you get the cream effect. Go figure.
 
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adamph is having this exact same issue. We found that discarding the embedded colour profile when you open the picture seemed to solve it to a degree - you can make it always ask you if you want to do this through the options.
But when converting to greyscale it was still boogered.... Anyone with a real fix to this?

sunlitsix said:
i get the same problem, images always look darker in photoshop for me
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It's not so much darker, as if using the wrong white balance - the colours change completely - grey becomes sepia, white becomes cream. It's annoying, to be mild.
 
Try using the PhotoPro profile rather than Adobe 1998.

It includes the full gamut of both Adobe 1998 and sRGB so you get the full colour range whilst viewing and editing your photos. You can then assign a new profile to the image depending on whether or not you want to print or publish for web.

Panzer
 
oh god I cant for the life of me remember what causes this exactly. It is a color profile setting.

I had it once.

I got a funny feeling its not a photoshop setting and is a windows/display setting like gamma or something.

Have you been playing with your windows display settings at all? If so revert them to default and see from there.
 
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I always compensate by 15 - 25% when it comes to printing in photoshop with the brightness settings.
Saying that the only time I had an image issue as bad as the one you mention was when I changing from user prefferences on my lcd to actually printing using the default colour space on my monitor. Are you using a CRT or LCD? The point being does your monitor have or require its own specific driver prior to trying to match it in Photoshop?
 
how do you find out what colour profile for the card?

Ive an ATI 1960pro, looking in the control centre under profiles there doesnt seem to be any to choose from. Can you download them from somewhere?

Havnt touched the windows settings.

Monitor is a 19" Flatron L1960TR

Not tooo bothered as it doesnt effect files you load up doing file->Load

Just seems to be affecting clipboard images you bring in from outside PS.

Weird.
 
Windows and browsers assume the colour space of an image to be sRGB.

Therefore non-sRGB images viewed in Windows or your browser will not match what you see in Photoshop using AdobeRGB.

Assuming a calibrated monitor you should print with the profile used in Photoshop. For display on the web or in Windows save as sRGB.
 
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