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June 28, 2019
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All of my images have extremely vibrant colors for no reason.

  • June 28, 2019
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Every time I put anything into photoshop the image is instantly brighter. All of the colors pop. Messing with the brightness/contrast doesn't do anything. I need all of my images to go back to normal. How do I fix this?

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Stephen Marsh
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 29, 2019

Agreed, as others have mentioned, we need more info... That being said, I'm guessing that you have Adobe RGB or ProPhoto RGB set as your working colour space and that the image files that presumably look OK in the operating system or other "viewer" software don't have an ICC colour profile and that they are in a colour space similar to sRGB. If this is so, setting your RGB working space to sRGB could be one answer, however, it may not be "the" answer. We need to understand more about the images and your settings.

marliton
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 29, 2019

Hi. You need to define a comparison point. I mean: the images are too brighter compared with?

If you, for example, need to predict the press color, you need to calibrate your monitor and use an appropriate profile or better, a custom profile. If that is to much work for you, at least make a basic calibration in your monitor.

Marlon Ceballos
mglush
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 28, 2019

As well as posting a screen shot that Michael talked about in the post above, can you also tell us what version of Photoshop you are using and are you on Mac or Windows?

Thanks,

Michelle

Michael Bullo
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 28, 2019

Could you post a screen shot of your Color Settings which you can find in the Edit menu.

Nancy OShea already asked whether your images have color profiles. If they do not, your Photoshop settings may be such that your images appear incorrectly.

Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 28, 2019
Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 28, 2019

Have you calibrated your monitor? 

What kind of image files are you working with?

Do they have a color profile attached to them and if so which one?

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert