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Color picker doesn't match [2022]

  • September 14, 2022
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Painting templates for a 3D model in a game. 

 

The color picked from a previous file (210E6F-a blue) shows up as a purple. I have 2 tabs/windows open and the same color number shows as differernt in the 2 files. Every setting I've checked (RGB, Apple, etc) seem to be exact, but obvioulsy someting is checked/unchecked somewhere. 

 

Really at a loss here. 

 

Thanks 

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Correct answer D Fosse

I use PS mainly for painting pre-made templates for a racing sim,  silly memes and 'photoshopping' photos, which aren't exactly fine art. I do all my professional editing in Lightroom. So, no, for my applications, I don't need to go down the rabbit hole of color manegement so a NAFO meme can be color corrected. 

 

The biggest problem is figuring out 'how' the color profile got changed from the original template. That's what caused the issue for something that is only marginally imporatant. Mr pfaffenbicher was already kind enough to tell me to have the profile showing on the bottom so next time I can see that someting happened even if I dont know how. 


It doesn't matter what you do. Photoshop is based on using icc profiles, and if profiles are inconsistent or wrong, it will look wrong. End of.

 

If you want to keep it simple, stick with sRGB IEC61966-2.1. Create your files in sRGB, convert to sRGB if they aren't. Never use any other profile, anywhere. And stay well away from any kind of wide gamut monitor! Once you get one of those in the house, there's no way you can ignore color management any longer.

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KShinabery212
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KShinabery212Community Expert
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September 15, 2022

Are you using two different monitors and if so are they calibrated the same way?

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September 15, 2022

The important thing is thatr #210E6F isn't actually a single standard colour. It's meaningless UNLESS combined with a profile. [Think of it as a recipe for mixing three ingredients, It gives the amounts of the ingredents, but you'll get very different results using the ingredients lettuce-tomato-pepper versus crab-vinegar-chicken]. Unfortunately this is not well understood, and all over the internet people post things like 210E6F without understanding that they need to give context. In such cases, using sRGB is often the best bet.

    jamesm7299817
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    September 15, 2022

    I've always stayed away from monkeying with profiles, as an amatuer it's a recipe for disaster. Just have no idea how that would have gotten changed from the orginal template file to the one I was working on. An accidental random couple of keystrokes while trying to rename a layer is the most likely but unlikely at the same time. 

    jamesm7299817
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    September 17, 2022
    @jamesm7299817 wrote:

    I've always stayed away from monkeying with profiles, as an amatuer it's a recipe for disaster.

     

    Can't be avoided in Photoshop or color-managed applications. You can, like most, attempt to wrap your head around properly understanding a triplet of numbers and what they represent, or you can continue with this problem (of your making).  

    Here's my cooking (cookie) analog from 2004 and WHY you need to understand color management:

    http://digitaldog.net/files/01What%20is%20color%20management,%20and%20why%20do%20we%20need%20it.pdf


    I use PS mainly for painting pre-made templates for a racing sim,  silly memes and 'photoshopping' photos, which aren't exactly fine art. I do all my professional editing in Lightroom. So, no, for my applications, I don't need to go down the rabbit hole of color manegement so a NAFO meme can be color corrected. 

     

    The biggest problem is figuring out 'how' the color profile got changed from the original template. That's what caused the issue for something that is only marginally imporatant. Mr pfaffenbicher was already kind enough to tell me to have the profile showing on the bottom so next time I can see that someting happened even if I dont know how. 

    jamesm7299817
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    c.pfaffenbichler
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    c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity Expert
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    September 14, 2022

    I fail to see the Status Bar in your screenshots so they are not useful. 

    jamesm7299817
    jamesm7299817Author
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    September 14, 2022

    Do you need more info than this? If so how do I access that?

      c.pfaffenbichler
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      c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity Expert
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      September 14, 2022

      Please set the Status Bar to »Document Profile« and meaningful screenshots. 

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