Photoshop And Color Profiles

Posted At : April 21, 2008 8:36 PM | Posted By : Francois Levesque
Related Categories: Photoshop,Design

I've just spent the last 2 days trying to figure out why Photoshop CS3 wasn't rendering my colours right... Now I don't know what made it bad in the first place (it might be Vista, it might be some warning messages that I, ahem, ignored after spending hours reinstalling programs on my new rig. Anyways, the problem was that most colours seemed warmer. For example, white was a pale yellow, and only within Photoshop. My desktop, web pages, everything was fine. However anything I would see in Photoshop was off a bit, which made it pretty hard to design anything for Project moreADS, take two.

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I've had a similar experience and here's what I've noticed. CS3 seems to be the only program that paid attention to the default monitor profile set in Vista's Color Management. The default monitor profile you previously had (LG226W) was from the manufacturer and was specifically built to correct the color for your monitor. Everything I've read says your previous set-up was the recommended one... the windows default profile should be the one corrected for your monitor. The Adobe RGB working space should be either sRGB or Adobe RGB according to preference. But like you I find that using my monitor's profile as the default in Vista affects the colors in PS, though not anywhere else.

I guess that leaves three possibilities:

1. The monitor profile is bad and a new one should be calibrated.
2. The colors you were seeing in PS were actually more accurate, they just looked odd in comparison to the rest of Windows. I'm debating if this is the case in my situation.
3. There's a glitch between how CS3 and Vista deal with color
# Posted By Dan | 5/4/08 11:23 AM
 
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