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Luis5FD2
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February 2, 2022
Question

Photoshop color management messed up with windows 11. Help please

  • February 2, 2022
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So I am struggling with Windows 11 and color management. Using i1 Display calibration or DisplayCal, doesnt matter. Is like the profiles do not really apply as they used to do on Windows 10 (no I cannot go back to 10 right now). 
I have the latest updates for 11 (not on the beta program though). Can anyone share their settings if you are able to get it working?

Like right now, to get for isntance the image "punch" to match how shadow detail looks on other devices when I post images, I need to use the Color proofing to monitor but even this does not help with the issue of when I edit an image I can see for example, some redness to the skin color and all good. 
When I go with my phone, for example, and find the photo in my google drive, it still looks similar in the skin color but the moment I download it and or post it to Instagram, the skin turns more yellow not matching how I intended it to be. It almost felt like it was a color profile issue but I double checked and all were exported to srgb.
So I am sure something is messed up with the whole chain thus I would appreciate some advice (that is not to go back to Windows 10 please).
Thanks

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D Fosse
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February 2, 2022

This really sounds like you got a defective monitor profile from the manufacturer, distributed through Windows Update. That happens quite often.

 

There was a color management bug in Windows 11, but by all reports that has been fixed in a recent update. It didn't have those symptoms either.

 

The proper fix for this is to use a calibrator to make a new profile. But if you don't have one, use sRGB IEC 61966-2.1 for now. It won't be entirely accurate, but better than a broken profile.

 

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