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bjtoston
bjtoston
New Participant
October 15, 2019
Question

Color difference between preview and workspace

  • October 15, 2019
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I updated photoshop recently and now my color profiles seem to be off. The image is displaying a much cooler version of the colors in the "preview" in the camera raw filter than in my photoshop workspace. When I save the image out as a .png or .jpg, it is showing the same colors as camera raw shows, NOT the colors in my photoshop workspace. 

 

I have read through several of the other color profile-related forums, re-downloaded my monitor's color profile, tried changing the default profiles in photoshop, etc. with no luck. It's becoming extremely frustrating to do any photo editing with this going on. I know I'm missing something here, just not sure what. Thank you so much to anyone in advance for any help!

 

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D Fosse
D Fosse
Community Expert
October 16, 2019

Yes, a defective monitor profile.

davescm
davescm
Community Expert
October 16, 2019

That looks like a broken monitor profile. You set the monitor profile in your operating system (not Photoshop) and Photoshop will then use it when displaying colours.

Ideally you will make a new profile with a calibration device and that will set the profile for you.
Are you using Mac or Windows?
Dave

    bjtoston
    bjtostonAuthor
    New Participant
    October 16, 2019
    Yes, it appeared to be at least a discrepancy between the monitor profile and the photoshop profile. I had fixed my monitor profile, BUT, in the meantime, I think I had screwed up photoshop's color settings, so I wasn't seeing the fix. When I restored photoshop to default settings, with the corrected monitor profile, I think that's what did the trick!
    bjtoston
    bjtostonAuthor
    New Participant
    October 16, 2019

    I'm still not sure how I fixed it or what was wrong. It was also causing everything I saved out to be a very cool shade of how the actual file looked in the workspace. I uninstalled and reinstalled both bridge and photoshop and my monitor and it seems to be working now!

    davescm
    davescm
    Community Expert
    October 16, 2019
    Your system was probably set to use a broken (or incorrect) monitor profile
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