Photoshop Causes Monitor to Brighten Significantly, Adds Blue Shift

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March 16, 2021
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I've had a strange thing happen with the most recent version of Photoshop the last few days.

As soon as I click on the icon to start PS, the entire monitor screen brightens significantly. It also shifts significantly to the blue, cooling the photos. Once I exit PS, my monitor brightness returns to zero.

I should stress, this increase in the brightness and cooling affects all problems, not just PS, for as long as PS remains running.

I use a calibrated monitor. This strange PS behavior means I can't edit while PS is running. The results are too bright and too blue.

I'm running Windows 10 with 16GB of RAM and an SSD as primary drive and mechanical hard drive as the secondary drive.

Cheers,

Mitch

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D Fosse

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D Fosse

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I use a calibrated monitor.

By @glennm33209809

Calibrated how and with what calibrator?

Does this affect the entire interface, or is it limited to image/histogram/color picker? If the former, it's a bad video driver, if the latter, a bad monitor profile.

Do you have screenshots that could illustrate? (don't attach, insert image directly into the post).

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It brightens the monitor for every app, as long as PS 2021 is running. Exit PS 2021 and everything returns to normal. It is clearly something that PS is triggering, since it does not happen with any other software.

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The images appear identical (save cursor position etc.) so what are they intended to demonstrate?

I was asked to provide sample screen shots before and after entering Photoshop.

I realize they look similar. They are not identical, in the sense that they are two separate screen captures.

I find it curious that only Photoshop exhibits this behavior. Noting else in Adobe CC does this. No LR, Not LrC. Not InDesign. Etc.

It's very madenning, because Photoshop affects the monitor for every running app. Enter Photoshop and the monitor immediately brightens. For everything. Exit Photoshop. The monitor returns to normal.

I'm wondering if Greg Benz's Lumenzia 9 is the culprit. I let it optimize my Photoshop experience. I know, for B&W, it set the gamma for its own preferred setting.

That's what appear to be happening, like Photoshop is altering the gamma fpr my monitor and restoring it on exit.

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