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March 16, 2021
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Photoshop Causes Monitor to Brighten Significantly, Adds Blue Shift

  • March 16, 2021
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I've had a strange thing happen with the most recent version of Photoshop the last few days.

As soon as I click on the icon to start PS, the entire monitor screen brightens significantly. It also shifts significantly to the blue, cooling the photos. Once I exit PS, my monitor brightness returns to zero.

I should stress, this increase in the brightness and cooling affects all problems, not just PS, for as long as PS remains running.

I use a calibrated monitor. This strange PS behavior means I can't edit while PS is running. The results are too bright and too blue.

I'm running Windows 10 with 16GB of RAM and an SSD as primary drive and mechanical hard drive as the secondary drive.

Cheers,

 

Mitch

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D Fosse
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March 17, 2021

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D Fosse
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March 16, 2021
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I use a calibrated monitor.


By @glennm33209809

 

Calibrated how and with what calibrator?

 

Does this affect the entire interface, or is it limited to image/histogram/color picker? If the former, it's a bad video driver, if the latter, a bad monitor profile.

 

Do you have screenshots that could illustrate? (don't attach, insert image directly into the post).

Participating Frequently
March 17, 2021

I have my ICC monitor profile set to use a D65 white point and illuminant of 160 cd/m3. Standard tone response curve. Gamma 2.2. I use i1Profiler from Xrite to calibrate my monitor.

Participant
January 7, 2023

This happens to my PC as well.  I use Spyder 5 to calibrate my monitor. Perhaps doing another calibration on the monitor after Photoshop opens and saving the new profile would help, that way, you could select between calibration profiles as needed.  I would give this a try myself but I am getting a new computer in a couple of days - so I will waity and see how that works out.