Color in Photoshop and Lightroom is different than in Windows Explorer

Question

Hello all!I am having some trouble with Photoshop and Lightroom that I would like to have some help with. Please and thank you! I am using a dell laptop with the latest version of Windows 10 installed and I also use I1profiler to calibrate my display.Ever since I calibrated my display the color of my pictures in both Photoshop and Lightroom is considerably different than when I view the picture in the windows photo app. I can see the biggest difference in skin tones which appear a lot more redder in Photoshop and Lightroom both. Does anybody have any ideas for me to try?Thanks so much!

Per Berntsen · Answer

When you did the calibration, a monitor profile was created that accurately describes your display.

Photoshop and Lightroom use this profile in order to display correct colors.

Most other programs (like Windows Explorer) do not use the monitor profile, and displays photos without any correction.

IOW, Photoshop and Lightroom are right, Windows Explorer is wrong.

Windows 10 is known to install low quality, or even defective profiles through updates, so check that the profile you created is set as Default under Color management in Windows.

Press the Windows key+R, type colorcpl and hit Enter.

The dialog that opens will show you which profile is set as default. It should have (Default) after the profile name.

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