Wrong colors in CC programs

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February 10, 2018
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Hi,

I try to find solution for this situation, but I don't. After last update of Adobe CC programs (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Lightroom...) show me colors that look like with less saturation than it's real.

I will show only Ps and Lr, but it's same for others.

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Correct answer D Fosse

OK. As I said, "as long as you have a valid monitor profile". Yours is apparently broken, and the likely reason for that is a defective manufacturer profile distributed through Windows Update. This is a fairly common problem.

Photoshop uses whatever monitor profile the OS tells it to use. If it's defective, the wrong values get sent to the monitor.

A monitor profile has only one requirement and one purpose: it needs to be an accurate description of the monitor's actual, current response. That's it. But a lot of monitor/laptop manufacturers can't seem to get this right, don't ask me why.

This is why people buy and use calibrators. But until then, you can use a generic profile such as sRGB IEC61966-2.1. It won't be entirely accurate, but is usually close enough for most.

Remember to relaunch the application when done, it needs to load the profile at startup.

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Wojcisz

Participant

2021 - I have the same bloody issue.
Workspace set to prophotorgb
when press export as it does showes me colours way more saturated etc. and contrasty.
All apps and webbrowseers show saturated etc. Only in workspace issue appeares across all adobe apps.
DONT TELL ME ADOBE IS ONLY COLOUR MANAGED BECAUSE CAPTURE ONE HAS NO SUCH ISSUE !

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Wojcisz

Participant

Wow , how bad is this? ICM profile from xrite is not being accepted by photoshop workspace and hence why colours are desaturated and off. however if I do pick defauls sRGB from windos all the sudden issue disapeares... This is some kind of a joke Adobe?

NB, colourmanagement

Community Expert

Wojcisz, You should not use a display profile as the Photoshop working space. Use, a working colour space say sRGB or Adobe RGB for that, those are 'device-independent' colour spaces designed for the job.

Photoshop deals with the translation between document colourspace (generally a working space) and display colour space.

Setting the display colour space (profile) as working space opens a user to all sorts of issues down the line. It's best avoided

I hope this helps
neil barstow, colourmanagement net :: adobe forum volunteer
google me "neil barstow colourmanagement" for lots of free articles on colour management
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D Fosse

Community Expert

Photoshop has full color management, Windows "Photos" has not.

There is nothing unexpected here. What you're seeing is the difference between a color managed application, using your monitor profile to remap into your monitor's native color space, thus representing the file correctly - and one that just sends the original data through without any correction.

Provided your monitor profile is valid, Photoshop is right and Windows Photos is wrong.

petrasekAuthor

Participant

I don't think so, because this issue happened after update, so colors were more vivid before on v. 2017. And also, It's happened not only in PS but other programs too, and if I put same photo or picture to Photoshop on different computer it look more vivid than on mine. And right now, when I want to chose color in Photoshop (or other Adobe program) I can't see whole color palet, I just can't get some colors that I can before.

D Fosse

Correct answer

Community Expert

OK. As I said, "as long as you have a valid monitor profile". Yours is apparently broken, and the likely reason for that is a defective manufacturer profile distributed through Windows Update. This is a fairly common problem.

Photoshop uses whatever monitor profile the OS tells it to use. If it's defective, the wrong values get sent to the monitor.

A monitor profile has only one requirement and one purpose: it needs to be an accurate description of the monitor's actual, current response. That's it. But a lot of monitor/laptop manufacturers can't seem to get this right, don't ask me why.

This is why people buy and use calibrators. But until then, you can use a generic profile such as sRGB IEC61966-2.1. It won't be entirely accurate, but is usually close enough for most.

Remember to relaunch the application when done, it needs to load the profile at startup.