PS CC Colour settings

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Hi all.Last weeks, as always, I calibrated my monitor using ColourMunki. However something went wrong I think because my images have different saturation in Bridge and PS CC. I've never had that before and it makes my editing difficult. Someone told me that both programs should have Monitor Colour Profile chosen but when searching internet about it everyone says use Europe General Purpose 3. In this case what would be the reason in calibrating monitor and creating profile? I'm so confused  I just edited some photos and they look great in PS and when uploaded to my web, they look great when viewing on phone but desaturated when using Internet Explorer eg.Please help

D Fosse · Accepted Answer

Don't use Monitor Color, ever. That turns off all color management in Photoshop.Monitor profile and document profile are two different things, serving different purposes! You cannot mix them. What happens here is that the file is converted from your document profile and into your monitor profile, and these corrected numbers are sent to your display.You need both profiles for this to work. If they are the same, the whole process falls apart and stops, and color management is disabled.This document to monitor profile conversion is a perfectly standard profile conversion, just like any other profile conversion, only performed by the application, on the fly, and without any user intervention.In short - run your ColorMunki software and then don't do anything else. It's all taken care of.--As for the color shift, that can be a couple of things, but it's hard to tell without seeing it. Please post a screenshot showing Bridge and Photoshop side by side, with the same image open.Internet Explorer is not properly color managed and can't be trusted. It will not display correctly under any circumstances.

D Fosse · Answer

First of all, it's very important that you follow Rob's advice and make sure your images really have an embedded profile, and that it's the right one (sRGB, Adobe RGB).

That aside, this doesn't seem to correspond to the shift you'd get between standard profiles used incorrectly.

To me this looks like a defective monitor profile. That can often affect applications differently. To test that, replace it with sRGB IEC61966-2.1. Relaunch both Bridge and Photoshop when done, they need to load the profile at application startup :

Please report back. If the difference disappears (even if the image doesn't reproduce entirely correctly) - we know it's the profile and you need to look at your ColorMunki.

If there's still a difference my theory is shot down...

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