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Color setting gone rogue in Photoshop 2025
- October 16, 2024
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My current setup is Working CMYK, and I didn't change anything in that setting.
However, there was a different setting linked to monitor RGB, which I can't remember 😞 But that setting and the initial change in the monitor profile got my PS to a working status. No more color differences on open or save.
The monitor profile should be used in one place, and one place only. That is in the operating system's colour settings. Applications will use the monitor profile from there provided it has been installed correctly.
As D Fosse explained earlier, using the monitor profile as a setting for the document in Photoshop merely turns colour management off. It may look ' the same' on your system but will look incorrect on others.
The symptoms you show point toward a faulty monitor profile, which is set in the operating system but you can check the following:
a. Make sure Edit >Settings > Enable OpenColorIO features is unchecked
b. Make sure your document profile for new documents is set to a Document Colour Space. Edit > Colour Settings > RGB set to sRGB or Adobe RGB
c. Outside of Photoshop, type Color management into the Windows search bar. In devices, check your monitor is selected. Then look at the ICC profile. As a temporary measure change that to sRGB (or Adobe RGB if you have a wide gamut monitor). Next, restart Photoshop. If that improves the display, then it proves your monitor profile was faulty and you need to replace it with a profile that describes your actual monitor (preferably one made with a hardware device).
Dave
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