Color/vibrancy shift going from OSX to Windows

Hi Monika,

I check today on our mac system at work and all is actually fine. I think this issue was perhas to old linked files.

Upon opening the files in both illustrator and photoshop, they look the same.

In general i work in the US Color Space setup with some adjustments. I always work with sRGB in RGB andn SWOP v2 in cmyk. I also "use included profile" and use "Ask when opening" warning on mismatches when opening files.

Also my other question about untagged RGB files has been solved. I think somehow that linked AI file had old a old preview in Photoshop. When i updated the link on the  Mac system it looks the same (less vibrant) as on the windows system. Of course there is some difference because of different monitors and what not. But overall they are the same.

Below we see a comparison of exported files from Windows and OSX. No differences in the sRGB output. All files, at least most of them, are exported using sRGB for consistency.  I think that change is a result of old file and a untagged export and then opening and assigning perhaps wrong profile.

The image below are laid overtop each other and divided in two horizontally. No color mismatch, second image shows each export dividing location.

As for that other issue i noted about the linked AI shifting aroudn. I see the same thing happening on OSX. Not sure whats going on there. I know sometimes when you update links and use different placement options that the scaling is affected. But this time the linked image simply moves around. I noticed differemt offset amount when zoomed in. Its quite weird. I thought it wa a Windows thing, but i get the same behavior in OSX photoshop version.

Thanks Creamer for replying.

Well in general mac have better displays or monitors, they have wider gamut range. But its not related too that i believe. I made an update post about the color vibrancy shift i noticed. I got the same on OSX so my guess because the linked fiels were old, they showed old previews.

I know the differences in the paths, thats something im working on,. Im making a script with which i can mass update linked files. Currently, i need to do layer by layer. In my designs i used linked SVG files for a GUI im designing. Because of the file path differences in the OS i had to relink them 1 by one. Ive now gathered some scripts, altered them and added code which allow me to select a folder and it recursively goes over all files. It will relink all my selected layers automatically. It will also update linked AI and link PSD files when using artboards. Its almost done and works super nice! Photoshop "update modified" works great. but only if it has the proper link. So when going from OS to OS it wont work because of the different path folder they show. My solution solves this 🙂 

PS your remark about the guides 0,0 is great. I believe i expanded this file after the creation, i guess thats why its offsetting. I did not think off that as being the issue. Though i dont see this same behavior happen on all files. But that could makes sense, perhaps those not affected were added after the canvas size change. I cant exactly remember it. But i know now why is shifts. Though i think im going to test this behavior, see if the offset is the same as the canvas size change.

However, i did notice the offset looked different on some cases. I tested this behavior a couple of times by opening and closing the file without saving. Somehow when i was zoomed in, the offset was bigger?!