Photoshop Not Accessing the correct Monitor Profile

[josht88476540]

Have been troubleshooting why my prints are not matching my monitor. Prints are coming back from the lab darker and with a noticeable color shift. I am on a Windows 10 machine using 3 monitors. The monitor I use for PS is a BenQ sw271. I've calibrated my monitor, adjusted brightness etc. In the Edit>Color settings dialog and then Working Spaces>RGb drop down I am noticing that the Monitor RGB says "Monitor RGB - BenQ 2700". This is not the monitor I am using PS on. I am able to navigate (in windows color management control panel) to the profile that was established when calibrated and have added the profile and selected it as default. This has not changed the Monitor RGB in the Color settings dialog in PS. So, basically PS is using the wrong profile. How do I fix this so that PS uses the correct profile by default? (Attached screenshot of Color settings dialog for reference)

[carlseibert]

I just came to this thread, a year on. It's the first coherent explanation I found, apart from unnecessary some noise about not setting your monitor's color space as your working space (!) For anybody else who happens to stumble here by search ......

I was having this issue on a Windows 10 laptop with an external monitor, and by extension, the same question with my Mac laptop and its (own, different) external monitor. I was having trouble confirming that the correct profile was being applied to the external monitors. (On which Photoshop is used on both machines)

First off - it turns out that Windows does not apply the monitor profile to the desktop background. Mac does. So, you can see the colors change right on the (likely) grey background as you click on different profiles on the Mac but not on the Windows machine. Ouch.

Then, in Photoshop, Color settings > Working Space > and the RGB pulldown, there's a (read-only, I-presume) listing for the monitor profile for the primary monitor. Doesn't matter what monitor you have the Photoshop window on, it shows the selected profile for the primary one. Ouch again.

Yes, as stated in this thread, Photoshop does appear to use the right profile for whatever monitor Photoshop's window appears on. And, yes, if you set a crazy profile for one monitor and drag the Photoshop window from one monitor to the other, you will see the colors change as you cross the midpoint of the window. In my Mac's case, dragging the image back to the monitor from whence it came yielded posterized colors. Closing the image and reopening it fixed matters.

So, once you have confirmed via the operating system that the right profile is set for each monitor and satisfied yourself via crazy-color-dragging that Photoshop is correctly understanding which on which monitor its window sits, you should be able to be confident that you have things set right.

Phew. What a bunch of unnecessary wounds inflicted by Adobe and the !@#$%^&* operating system manufacturers!