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I noticed this when trying to set night photos as deesktop backgrounds.When I open JPGs in windows "photo" app they appear normal (brightness level as I wish). When I hit "edit" in this app, they darken significantly.When I open them in photoshop, they appear normally (as I wish and as in windows preview).Same phenomenon occurs when I try to set them as my desktop background: they appear much more dark than I wish, untrue to preview image (see screenshot comparisons).Note, even when I open these screenshots after taking them, they appear much brighter when viewed as new JPG screenshot files than they did on screen when I took them.I tried saving the original file (IMGP4677-* variants attached) with various assigned color profiles, and no difference is seen anywhere except within the windows photo preview.Same darkening issue and untrue screenshot brightness phenomenon occurs.I am using a microsoft surface laptop connected to a Dell ultrasharp monitor (displays "generic PNP monitor" und

Hi, I think I've stumbled across a bug in the way that Bridge v10.01.126 previews images edited in ACR. First of all, I can confirm Bridge is reading all embeded color profiles correctly.  If a series of identical unedited test images are tagged with sRGB, A98, ProPhoto, or WhackedRGB, etc. they will all look identical. See first attachment.  Secondly, I have Bridge set up to display HQ previews.  ACR uses A98 as a working space.I have a wide gamut profiled monitor.     Issue:  After editing raw files (or even tiffs and jpegs captured in A98 color space) in ACR v14.3, Bridge previews the edited image in sRGB and not whatever profile is embedded in the image.  I only discovered this after editing some images that had colors that were towards the edge of A98, and definitely outside sRBG.  The Bridge preview is muted in the extended colors while ACR (and opening is PS) shows the full color gamut.  Sure enough, if I convert t

Hi all,  I've spent hours scouring the internet to figure out why my colors aren't matching up. I'm using Adobe photoshop, and I'm copying layers from one document into another. The same program. I'm not switching between programs (as I see that is a lot of other peoples problems with color). The color profiles are the same. They are both sRGB. I've tried assigning profiles to both of them ( to Adobe RGB) and attempting pasting my layers in afterwards. The same outcome of different variety of green. I then read to not assign profiles but, to convert. So I did a save as, and tried that. The same outcome. I also tried to set color settings to default, but I never changed them and they are the same as the default (North America General Purpose 2). I attempted to anyways. I also read that I needed to embedd color profiles? I'm unsure of what that is, but I read a save as should do it? So I tried that as well. The only thing that seems different from anything I've used b

Hi,This is a first for me.  Thanks in advance for any input.I'm working on a .psd file that was created cmyk.  I have the doc together but my problem is I am unable to replicate the colors I have in similar rgb document.  I've tried copying all of the layers over from the rgb file to the cmyk file but the color is still off -- way off.  Hot blue becomes dark purple.This is for print (business card).The rgb color is #0000ff.  I looked around and could not find a comparable color in the cmyk palette.  I tried some of the on line rbg-to-cmyk converters but to no avail.Am I missing something or is there no way to resolve this?Thanks in advance...

I am using a Macbook Pro M1 running Big Sur and two different external monitors (an ASUS VG289 at work and an Iiyama 22" at home) and I have the same issue on both: I have a rather close match on all my monitors (as much as these very different monitors allow), but suddenly the color changes, with more contrast and saturation and randomly reverts to how it was. This sometimes happens just by selecting a tool, or moving a layer. It becomes impossible to know which color is the right one. Additionally, the whole image flickers when drawing a selection.This happens regardless of what Color calibration I use, or whether the image is in RGB or CMYK.

Hi, Im creating an ebook from InDesign. I have RGB illustrations from an illustrator that I have put into the document specifically for the ebook to maintain the colours but they are still duller. The illustrator supplied a pdf for colour and the colours are brighter. What is the ebook doing to the colours?Thanks.

Helloso since my last update to big sur, i have been having issues with color management.  my macbook pro is calibrated i'd say about once a month.  since the update i have been having issues not only proofing but with my printing.  I know the proof is correct from taking the file elsewhere to print (samy's camera) and it always comes out to how i proofed it in photoshop.  prints typically have an issue printing yellow for some reason, and tend to lean a bit toward magenta or a cooler tone, but when printed elsewhere i have no color issue.  i print using and epson p600 and i never use airprint for my printer driver.  my print head is in good condition.  i have uninstalled and installed multiple times and same issue every time.  i have the correct profile and paper type, with black point compensation, but really nothing ever changes.  now when i proof in photoshop, my prints do match what is printed(not on my printer though).  The i

 I use multiple adobe programs on a dialy basis for work. Last week I decided to update all programs (Illustrator, Photoshop, Lightroom and a few others). I had updated windows 11 not long before that. At first things seemed fine but a few days later, I suddenly opened up a file in illustrator to find that the colors were completely off.  I didn't know why and couldn't figure out how to fix it after searching online for a bit so I just made the changes I needed to make to the file anyways and it was fine when exported. Then I found that the issue was happening with another file but in photoshop, then again with another file in Lightroom. All CC programs save for Premiere seem to be having this color issue.  Brightness is low and colors are completely off. Yellows are orange, grays are black and so forth.  The only forums I've found are quite old and unhelpful. I've tried multiple monitor profiles but there is no change. A few have attributed it to Win

In Illustrator should I check the "Embed Colour Profile" box when saving a seamless pattern for print?  The design is in CMYK and will be used for printing on fabric.

I previously downloaded 2 paper profiles from Fotospeed and installed as recommended but having not been printing photos for some time I find they now don't appear in the popup (which appears to show just display profiles) when not using the managed by printer but "other" choice. Yet in looking in Color sync and profiles they appear to be there!I have copied the paper profiles  to all profile/color sync options but no joy!I think there must have been an update to Big Sur as they did previously work! I have an IMac.Good old Apple!!Anyone help ?

Illustrator v26.0.3 Does not detect the embedded profiles of images placed. I have my CMYK working space set to GRACoL2006_Coated1v2, and the plicies are all set to preserve embedded profiles and to ask when there is a mismatch.If I go to File-Place and select an image with an embedded profile, in this case U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2, I should be receiving a color mismatch warning, but I do not. When looking at the info palette the files color is simply described as CMYK. The resulting PDF file shows the image tagged with the GRACoL2006_Coated1v2.icc, which is the working space of the Illustrator document. Clearly it has ignored or not detected the embedded profile. FYI-Creative Suite settings are synchronized.

Long story short, i use an Odyssey G9 monitor to edit my Lightroom classic Photos. I am exporting as sRGB which is standard but when i compare the colors on my Iphone, the blues are unfortunately washed out and more flat than on my monitor. It's unfortunate to spend a lot of money and have pretty significant variances in color. Of course i can always adjust in my phone but that's really not the point of using high end software and hardware. Posted below are the image on my monitor vs iphone and the calibration settings. I have scoured the internet and have real no solution - also i have no Iphone filters enables. https://imgur.com/gallery/E8BcYXk

Question: Basic question, and all my searches lead me too deep into the weeds for my purposes. I'd like to know where I can find help (for pay or for free) in choosing proper color values for a print (CMYK) project. Normally I'd consult with the printer.Project: CD sleeve that is 95% done except for this color challenge. Plan to get a press check but time is tight so I only want to do it once.Context: I'm an experienced print designer but have rather low color-theory skills. (I usually work in B&W book design and when I need color can usually get away with finding CMYK values on a Pantone color wheel). The CD printer (Disk Makers) is not set up to consult with clients -- they provide full design services or expect print-ready art.Parameters: The printer's color profile (Edit/Convert to profile) is GRACoL2006_Coated1v2.icc. I'm working in CC InDesign. The background color is a forest green (C34/M0/Y81/K71 or close). Current text values are 0/50/100/0 (gold at 11 pt) and 0/91/100/0 (

Color picker preview in Illustrator doesn't match the circled color in the color field, and in the document. As you can see below, the selected color in the color field matches the document. But the preview shows it as much brighter. It actually matches my monitor RGB as seen below with it opened in Windows photo viewer.I don't have this problem in Photoshop. Everything matches, as you can see below. Both AI and PS are RGB documents with the sRGB profile applied to it. No color proof option is turned on for either. Any idea why this is happening? I already posted this in the Illustrator forum but no luck.Thanks.

I have searched all over the Adobe Support Community discussions and despite finding a few similar looking discussions not a one helped to solve my issue. I hope someone here will be able to help. My problem is this: recently I purchased a subscripton to Lightroom and Photoshop programs and as I was testing the software on photos I took with my iPhone 13 Pro I found a very weird phenomenon. The photos I tried to edit are in a HEIF format. I imported the photos in the Photoshop and did only a slight adjustments with the cloning tool. I was not adjusting colors at all. When I exported the photos and viewed them on the iPhone next to the original photos the edited photos looked different, I would say slightly darker, less bright, and it also seems there is less detail. On a computer both of the photos, the original and the edited one look the same. At firts I thouht this was caused by the color profile settings. When I was importing the photos in the Photoshop a prompt questtion

Hi I was wondering if anyone could tell me the industry standard whiteness for paper? For the most balanced white not necessarily the brightest. Because the current papers I have been using have a CIE whiteness between 160-170 CIE but I think these are more consumer papers and they also have OBA's (optical brightening agents). At first I thought because they were really bright white that they were more pure white but when comparing to really nice coffee table books (like taschen) my papers looks way too blue. All the coffee table book paper is more greenish and a lot less bright but looks way more neutral and balanced. So I assume that this is the industry standard whiteness for this kind of printing (photography, art, fashion etc). I haven't seen any high end looking prints that are as blue and as bright as the papers I am using.Is CIE a measurement of whiteness or is it rather more brightness?     

EIZOモニター(CS240)のColorNavigator 7によりカラーマネジメントを行い、Lightroom classic ccによりＲＡＷ現像をしている者です。１０月にWindows 1０を１１にグレードアップしましたが、写真プリントとモニターも色が違い、カラーマッチングできなくなってしまいました。やむなくWindows1０に戻し対応しています。今もこの状況が続いております。Windows 11でICCプロファイルがＯＳにうまく伝わらないのが原因のようですが、Lightroom classicで対応することは可能でしょうか？EIZOのウェブサイトでは、ColorNavigator 7のMicrosoft Windows 11とEIZOソフトウェアの互換性について「表示・レタッチソフトによってはWindows 11でカラーマネージメントが正しく働きません。お使いのソフトのWindows 11対応状況をよくご確認の上でご利用ください。」と表示されています。

Anybody know where I can buy replacement lights for the Color Communicator 2 from Just Normlicht that are standardized for the Fogra32-standard? Seems Just Normlicht only has the Fogra52 ones in production any more..

I have serious trouble getting colors to print accurately on my Xerox C405 laser printer.  I have been trying to print from Photoshop, InDesign, or Acrobat.  There have been some other issues as well.  In working with a tech, he provided a postscript file of my document generated from the PDF doc I sent.  Not only did the artifacts (gray shading) from the border of a .png file disappear from the gradient color block, but the color was finally correct!  So he determined it was driver or application issues and not the printer since printing directly to the printer in PS3 came out correctly.   I try everything and can't for the life of me figure out which drivers and settings will produce an accurate output.  It is not a calibration issue either, as often read need to get a Spyder and calibrate the monitor to solve color issues.  I just printed something where I know the object in a photo and it looks exactly as it should on the scree

It's replacing the color I want to replace with grey rather than the blue I selected.  I'm working on a logo, it has two lines of text, the top is a different shade of blue than the bottom, I want them the same.  It is not one I created, but a jpg I had on file.

After uppdating Photoshop to the latest version (12 nov 2021) Photoshop and alsp Lightroom shows with more red color compared with the original bild. 

Hi all, I 'd like to understand what is wrong with this : Problem : when your InDesign document color setting is Adobe RGB 1998 for RGB, and you import Adobe Stock image ( images are in sRGB profile), it give a wrong profile to images (it give document profile), so when it convert to CMYK destination, it make wrong conversion, because it give wrong source information.If you open image in Photoshop with preserve embedded profile ( sRGB), and made Save as new document, with embedded profile check ( so sRGB profile is the image profile), and you import this new image in InDesign, image have the right profile ( if you set the links panel with icc profile, you can see it).This is my mistake I'd like to understand. Why original Adobe Stock image have issue when import in InDesign, sRGB profile image isn't assignate ?You can see below screenshots explain how I made the test. Thanks for your help, Christian 

This test image in sRGB, Adobe RGB and ProPhoto now displays identically, and with correct colors, on my wide gamut monitor. Windows 10, Photos version is 2021.21090.10008.0. This is good news, the bad news is of course that Windows 11 has broken color management.  

I noticed that when I print the same file (a profiling test chart) in ACPU from Mac vs PC, and using the same printer there are differences in the colors. Eg the yellows are slightly more green when sent from Mac and a purer yellow when I send from PC. The only differnce I noticed with the workflows is that the printer drivers on Mac and PC are different, however they are both Post Script drivers and I have all color corrections turned off. So it should be the same, right? Could it be anything to do with color engines - Apple CCM vs Adobe (ACE)? I just thought that it wouldnt matter when printing from ACPU... Any help would be really appreciated! -Blake 

Hello All - I've read quite a bit on the forum about color management recently and this has helped a ton. The one remianing question I have is around disabeling color management from the printer side, as it doesn't seem clear to me if it is actually disabled or not on my side. Maybe I'm just missing something obvious as I'm new to the configuration, but thought you all may be able to assist.As you can see from the collection of screen grabs I get the warning to make sure the printer settings have been turned off/defaulted to allow PS to manage. When I check I don't see anything that may allow this. My assumption would be that the setting would be in the Advanced Settings, but I don't see any. In checking the HP site, I didn't find much. I did read some of the posts by @D Fosse about the print profile, so Im guessing my issue nayt be the same- however I dont seem to have a print profikle that matches the suggested resolution. Any thoughts would be of great help. Thanks!