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Participant
May 14, 2024
Question

color differs in thumnail, bridge, raw and photoshop

  • May 14, 2024
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After purchasing a new screen, I have issues with my colors when working in Camera Raw, Bridge and Photoshop

Screen is Dell U3223QE – we have not used a professional calibration tool. Colors have been adjusted to look like prints and old screen which was calibrated.

 

When I open a folder in Bridge, I see the thumbnails but if I mark the thumbnail, the tone of the image changes. Sometimes from warm to cold and sometimes from col to warm

Example:

I open Bridge:

 

I mark the thumbnails and they change to a cooler tone

 

Color settings in Bridge is:

 

When opening the DNG image in Camera Raw, it opens in the warm tone

 

Color settings in camera Raw are the following:

 

When I then open from DNG converter (no adjustments), it opens in Photoshop in a cooler version

 

Color settings in Photoshop are:

 

Windows and other software:

When previewing in windows, the tumbnail is showing the warm color but when opening the image, the cooler version are displayed. (left image)

We use Pictime. When uploading to their page the warm color are displayed (right image)

 

How do we avoid this and get the same color in both Raw, Bridge and photoshop and also correct in thumbnails in Bridge? Please help

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Erik Bloodaxe
Legend
May 14, 2024

"Colors have been adjusted to look like prints and old screen which was calibrated."

May I first ask how you made these adjustments?

Participant
May 15, 2024

we just adjusted the screen settings on the Dell monitor (Contrast, custom color RGB) and then comparing to prints and old monitor.
By the way, we also have new PC with Win10 and all settings in Photoshop, Bridge and Camera Raw have been replicated from old pc as shown above

 

Erik Bloodaxe
Legend
May 15, 2024

Therein lies the cause of your problem. I would suggest you reset your monitor and use a proper calibration device to create a profile which all your Adobe software can use with consistency. 

If you then need to create your desired image appearance, you need to be creating presets in Camera Raw or Photoshop for example.