Can't fix color profile after several tutorials.

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Good day,

I decided to post here because this issue is deeply frustrating me. I never had to set a color profile before, but right now I'm unable to edit and save documents and having the previous color scheme intact on the file. It's either too bright or too dark.

I've browsed through the internet more than once to find an issue, but changing to this and that didn't help me at all.

This is an example of how different my colors are showing to me:

Months ago I made all my PSD files using the very same color scheme, now I can't seem to achieve the same result.

It's either this or my white showing as yellow, which I apparently fixed for some time, but today I tried editing that image and it was saved like that, I tried changing my color profile to a lot of different ones and neither helped and now I have a yellow white again. This is getting highly upsetting.

My graphic card is a 8192MB ATI Radeon RX 580 Series and my current screen is an older model of Samsung monitor.

D Fosse · Answer

It's a broken monitor profile. The proper way to deal with this is to use a calibrator to make a new profile, but if you don't have one, use sRGB IEC61966-2.1 for now. Replace the profile under Windows Color Management, and relaunch Photoshop.

Only color managed software actually use the monitor profile. Applications without color management, like Windows "Photos", don't use the profile and are unaffected.

Manufacturer monitor profiles are distributed through Windows Update, and surprisingly often they are defective in several ways. Then Photoshop can't display correctly. Samsung, Acer, Asus, LG and Dell are the worst offenders.

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