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.
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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