Colors in photoshop are desaturated

Question

I've noticed that other people have posted similar problems to mine a few years ago, but I didn't have this issue up until a few months ago. I first noticed something was wrong when the color wheel looked very desaturated in my monitor. I usually use photoshop to draw on my xp pen tablet but now I want to do some graphic design so using a bigger screen is more comfortable but, the colors look super desaturated. When I export them they look how they're supposed to look, same thing with my phone, chrome AND the photoshop home page, but when i'm working on a canvas I can't see the true colors. I've tried every setting in "proof setup". Can anyone help me with

this?

This is a screenshort of what the colors look in the workspace. Desaturated

This is what the colors look like in photoshop home: Saturated

And this is what they look like in photos, phone, chorme etc.

D Fosse · Answer

That's either a defective monitor profile, or just the wrong one.

How is your monitor profiled - are you using a calibrator? What monitor profile is set up as default for this screen in Windows?

If the monitor profile is inorrect, Photoshop will display incorrectly. But the Home screen isn't color managed at all, so it's not affected by this. Also, other applications that aren't color managed will be unaffected.

Some aspects of the Photoshop interface are color managed and others are not. The image always is, of course, but also the Color panel and other panels with color display. So when that looks wrong, you know the monitor profile is the problem.

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