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November 9, 2021
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Color Profile Nightmare

  • November 9, 2021
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I've gone through many of these discussions and nothing has solved my problem. Photoshop does not display my images properly, white is yellow. I've deleted and added new color profiles to Windows, I've calibrated new profiles to display as white, then importing raw images to Photoshop, they are dull and lifeless, in Lightroom the thumbnails are yellow, histogram yellow, but when I click on the image it's full color. How is this a corrupted color profile? The rest of my desktop looks fine. Also Premiere HDR videos look horrible and I've also done the whole "Color Override" option which did not fix it just altered it.

 

Is this a bug or what? I cannot edit my photos like this, I don't know what the end product is going to be now.

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D Fosse
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D FosseCommunity Expert
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November 9, 2021

It's a broken monitor profile. Classic symptoms.

 

Ideally you should be using a calibrator to make your monitor profiles. If not, you're probably getting laptop/monitor manufacturer profiles distributed through Windows Update. These manufacturer profiles are very often bad in various ways.

 

For now, until you get a calibrator, replace your broken profile with sRGB IEC61966-2.1 in Windows color management (screenshot below). It won't be entirely accurate, but better than a broken profile.

 

Return all Photoshop color settings to where they were! That's not where the problem is.

 

Relaunch Photoshop when done, it loads the monitor profile at application startup.

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    iamsikoraAuthor
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    November 12, 2021
    Did you not read my post? I did all of that.

    William Sikora III
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    iamsikoraAuthor
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    November 12, 2021

    are you using Windows 11?

     

    If so, then the reason for your nightmare is not Adobe, but Microsoft, which has not been able to fix a bug in the color management subsystem of  Windows 11 for more than six months (it appeared at the beta testing stage):

     

    Microsft tech community
    Eizo press-release

     

    Due to a bug in the OS, it is not possible to get the ICC profile information even though the ICC profile has been correctly applied to the OS. There is currently no solution within the software settings. We highly recommend not using a PC installed with Microsoft Windows 11 for the time being.


    Carefully read the topic on the Microsft tech community at the link above, there is advice on how to temporarily assign a profile through the WCS defaults (it has its own limitations, but it can solve the problem for a while)

     

    Yes, I am on Windows 11, I will give this a try. Thank you!

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