Color in Photoshop and Lightroom is different than in Windows Explorer

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June 29, 2017
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Hello all!

I am having some trouble with Photoshop and Lightroom that I would like to have some help with. Please and thank you! I am using a dell laptop with the latest version of Windows 10 installed and I also use I1profiler to calibrate my display.

Ever since I calibrated my display the color of my pictures in both Photoshop and Lightroom is considerably different than when I view the picture in the windows photo app. I can see the biggest difference in skin tones which appear a lot more redder in Photoshop and Lightroom both. Does anybody have any ideas for me to try?

Thanks so much!

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Per Berntsen

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When you did the calibration, a monitor profile was created that accurately describes your display.

Photoshop and Lightroom use this profile in order to display correct colors.

Most other programs (like Windows Explorer) do not use the monitor profile, and displays photos without any correction.

IOW, Photoshop and Lightroom are right, Windows Explorer is wrong.

Windows 10 is known to install low quality, or even defective profiles through updates, so check that the profile you created is set as Default under Color management in Windows.

Press the Windows key+R, type colorcpl and hit Enter.

The dialog that opens will show you which profile is set as default. It should have (Default) after the profile name.

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AwitmerAuthor

Known Participant

I just now checked and made sure that the profile I made is set to be the default profile and it is. Does this mean that I will need to go through all my 16,000+ pictures and re-edit the color to make it look right??

marlon.foto

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I'm wondering if the calibration software for the BenQ just doesn't work properly.

I'm not familiar with BenQ monitors, but It seems that they come with software calibration, that can be used on its own, but that also supports hardware calibrators. If you haven't used a hardware calibrator for the calibration, I would strongly advise you to do so.

Per Berntsen Abambo

The monitor is an SW2700PT and I use my Spyder4 sensor, but it has its own software called Palette Master. I'm just having trouble getting a sense of colour management in Windows since I'd been a Mac user for over a decade for my professional uses. I only used PC's for gaming so never much paid attention to my monitors.

Yesterday I was just making some quick edits for wedding previews and I just made my BenQ use a standard sRGB profile and put my monitor on sRGB mode and then when I uploaded the photos they seemed more consistent with what was on my screen, my iPhone, and my wife's laptop screen. I know not everyone's screens are calibrated, but there must be some reason the calibrated BenQ was causing me to compensate someway by make my photos over-red so when they were exported to jpeg everything was skewed.

The problem is THIS morning I'm editing photos of food packages for a company and everything needs to be perfect in CMYK, and I don't know what to do! Luckily I used my colour chart with the shoot, so I can just use the ol' info panel in PS to make sure everything matches up, but as a professional photographer I'd like to be able to trust my own eyes!!!

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