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February 21, 2020
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Camera raw different color vs Photoshop

  • February 21, 2020
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Hello!

I've read a lot of answers in simmilar posts. But I still can't find how to solve my problem. 

Opened image in Camera Raw shows different colors when I open it in Photoshop. When I work on MAC, everything is fine, but today I tried working on Windows 10, and something here is wrong..

 

 

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Correct answer Per Berntsen

The yellow cast is caused by a defective monitor profile.

Setting the monitor profile to sRGB (use Adobe RGB if you have a wide gamut monitor) should fix the issue.

This may or may not be accurate enough, depending on the characteristics of your monitor, and your requirements.

For best accuracy, you should calibrate the monitor with a hardware calibrator, which will also create and install a custom monitor profile that describes your monitor accurately.

 

To set the monitor profile to sRGB:

Close Photoshop, then press the Windows key + R, type colorcpl in the box and press Enter.

Add the sRGB profile, and set it as default.

 

 

The monitor profile is an important part of the color management chain, and is (ideally) an accurate description of how your monitor displays colors.

When you open an image in a color managed application (like Photoshop), the colors of the image are converted from the document profile to the monitor profile, which ensures that the colors you see on screen are correct.

This happens behind the scenes, without any action on your part.

 

A sound monitor profile can become corrupted, but the most common cause of monitor profile problems on Windows 10 is that it will install low quality profiles from monitor manufacturers when doing updates. These profiles are surprisingly often defective out of the box. When a defective profile causes a color cast, you can often see this cast in the interface as well.

 

A defective monitor profile can affect some color managed applications, and not others. Note that ACR and PS are two different applications. 

Native Windows applications (like Photos, Paint, Edge, File Explorer) are not color managed. They do not use the monitor profile, and send uncorrected colors to the screen.

 

The reason sRGB works is that standard gamut monitors have a color gamut that's roughly equivalent to sRGB.

And wide gamut monitors have a color gamut that's roughly equivalent to Adobe RGB.

Monitors can also have a color gamut anywhere between sRGB and Adobe RGB.

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Per BerntsenCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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April 17, 2020

The yellow cast is caused by a defective monitor profile.

Setting the monitor profile to sRGB (use Adobe RGB if you have a wide gamut monitor) should fix the issue.

This may or may not be accurate enough, depending on the characteristics of your monitor, and your requirements.

For best accuracy, you should calibrate the monitor with a hardware calibrator, which will also create and install a custom monitor profile that describes your monitor accurately.

 

To set the monitor profile to sRGB:

Close Photoshop, then press the Windows key + R, type colorcpl in the box and press Enter.

Add the sRGB profile, and set it as default.

 

 

The monitor profile is an important part of the color management chain, and is (ideally) an accurate description of how your monitor displays colors.

When you open an image in a color managed application (like Photoshop), the colors of the image are converted from the document profile to the monitor profile, which ensures that the colors you see on screen are correct.

This happens behind the scenes, without any action on your part.

 

A sound monitor profile can become corrupted, but the most common cause of monitor profile problems on Windows 10 is that it will install low quality profiles from monitor manufacturers when doing updates. These profiles are surprisingly often defective out of the box. When a defective profile causes a color cast, you can often see this cast in the interface as well.

 

A defective monitor profile can affect some color managed applications, and not others. Note that ACR and PS are two different applications. 

Native Windows applications (like Photos, Paint, Edge, File Explorer) are not color managed. They do not use the monitor profile, and send uncorrected colors to the screen.

 

The reason sRGB works is that standard gamut monitors have a color gamut that's roughly equivalent to sRGB.

And wide gamut monitors have a color gamut that's roughly equivalent to Adobe RGB.

Monitors can also have a color gamut anywhere between sRGB and Adobe RGB.

Participant
November 30, 2020

Dear Mr. Berntsen,

Albeit late, I'd like to thank you for your answer; it solved a persistant problem I had with the way my monitor was displaying color. Cheers!

 

Gabriel Rif

Participant
April 17, 2020

I am also having this problem. Even when I open a new image and it's all white, the white looks yellow even at "ffffff". It looks normal in Adobe Camera Raw, though. The images look the same in Photoshop and Bridge. I did ensure that the color space is sRGB. Is there something about my monitor and these apps specifically? It's a really weird problem and I'm super frustrated.