Hoping someone can help here. I suspect its something small, but its driving me crazy. I recently calibrated my monitor wth my Pantone Colorvision Spyder. Now Photoshop CS2 and Bridge are showing the wrong colors for my photos regardless of th Color Settings I choose (including Color Management Off). I've done this before with success, so I don't know what I have missed.
For one, I would turn Color Management on and Two, I wouldn't use your monitor profile for your working color space. Also make sure Color Management is enabled in Bridge as well. You would want to also make sure your system software is using your calibrated monitor profile.
You likely would want to set your RGB working space to sRGB if you send your images to a lab for printing, or use Adobe RGB or ProPhoto RGB if using an inkjet printer.
butchM wrote:
For one, I would turn Color Management on and Two, I wouldn't use your monitor profile for your working color space. Also make sure Color Management is enabled in Bridge as well. You would want to also make sure your system software is using your calibrated monitor profile.
You likely would want to set your RGB working space to sRGB if you send your images to a lab for printing, or use Adobe RGB or ProPhoto RGB if using an inkjet printer.
Agreed, on both counts, and with paulhodson. What you are seeing (when the "Monitor RGB..." is displayed) are the defaults that Photoshop has selected when I chose "Color Management Off". I have tried to setting my RGB Working Space to Abobe RGB(1998) and sRGB IEG61966-2.1 to the same end. The reason I chose to post the settings as I did, was that the "Settings" label in the "Color Settings" dialog box changes to "Custom" as soon as I change the RBG working space, and I wanted to demonstrate that I had chosen to turn "Color Management Off". Normally, I would select "North America Prepress 2"
I believe the system software is using the calibrated montitor profile, because in the Optical calibration software there is a check box to enable calibration Ii have tried it both on and off, in order to get my photos to open correctly!)
Monitor calibration is not a working space. The calibration is already integrated in the operating system.
Adobe RGB is the standard working space with the widest color gamut.
If you are not sure of what you changed in your settings, you can always reset Photoshop preferences to the default settings:
If you would like to reset all of your Photoshop preferences, simultaneously hold down the
Control+Alt+Shift (Windows), Command+Option+Shift (Mac) keys as you launch the application.
jerryrock wrote:
Monitor calibration is not a working space. The calibration is already integrated in the operating system.
Adobe RGB is the standard working space with the widest color gamut.
If you are not sure of what you changed in your settings, you can always reset Photoshop preferences to the default settings:
If you would like to reset all of your Photoshop preferences, simultaneously hold down the
Control+Alt+Shift (Windows), Command+Option+Shift (Mac) keys as you launch the application.
Jerry
Jerry,
Thanks, I understand when you say "Monitor calibration is not a working space". I did as you suggested, Photoshop prompted me to delete, I selected yes, but still have the same issue. The Color Settings defaulted to North America General Purpose 2. I tried changing to North America Prepress 2, to no avail.
BTW, this issue occurs if I am opening RAW files with ACR hosted by Bridge or Photoshop, or JPEG files. When I attempt to open the JPEGs, I am prompted that the image is missing a profile and asks how I want to manage color, no matter what I choose, the colors are wrong.
OK, I fixed it, but not sure what was wrong. I'm guessing I built a bad color profile for the system. When I deleted the profile, Photoshop is working fine again.
Weihs wrote:
OK, I fixed it, but not sure what was wrong. I'm guessing I built a bad color profile for the system. When I deleted the profile, Photoshop is working fine again.
Yes, a corrupt profile can cause considerable problems, glad you figured it out.
You would normally have sRGB or aRGB.