Photoshop V26 HDR blue hue

[Brynmor37143109f5al]

Photoshop V26 appears to be treating my monitor colour profiles very differently from V25.  With HDR enabled and identical settings in both versions, V25 displays colours correctly, but V26 casts a blue hue over the image and colour swatches.  If I disable HDR, then V26 appears to cast a pink hue over the transparency grid of an image, but the colours are otherwise unaffected.  Changing proof setups in V26 has no effect, except for Monitor RGB.  This results in the image looking like it does in V26 with HDR disabled, (pink hue to transparency grid only) but the colours in the colour and swatch windows retain the blue hue. V25 reproduces colours correctly with both HDR enabled or disabled.  Forcing V26 to use legacy colour management via the Windows compatibility settings resolves the issues, both with HDR enabled and disabled. No blue hue on everything or pink hue on the transparency grid.

Win11 Pro 23H2

Monitors - Samsung LU28R55

Graphics - Nvidia Geforce RTX 3090

[Sameer K]

Hey, @Brynmor37143109f5al. Welcome to the Photoshop Community. I'll help you figure this out. Please share the system info from Photoshop Help > System info > Copy and paste into a text document > Upload and attach here. 

Does this happen with specific documents? Try switching the HDR on and off on the monitor's HDR mode and using the Windows Display option & then. create a fresh HDR-calibrated profile. 

Once you set it up, try these steps: 

Ensure there are no stale preferences in your Photoshop. Go to the location of the preference folder below and rename it to backup.

• Windows 10/11: Users/[user name]/AppData/Roaming/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop [version]/Adobe Photoshop [version] Settings
• You can press Press the Windows key > Enter 'Run' > Enter %APPDATA%\Adobe
• Rename the Adobe Photoshop folder by adding a .old at the end. (Adobe Photoshop 2025 > Rename > Adobe Photoshop 2025. old), You can restore these preferences later if needed.(https://adobe.ly/4860qM9)
• Restart the computer.

These changes will give a fresh start to Photoshop as a fresh install. Let me know how it goes.

Thanks!

Sameer K

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[Brynmor37143109f5al]

Hi@Sameer K 
Thank you for the reply and suggestions.  The text file is attached as requested. I had tried turning HDR off and back on to make a new HDR profile while testing earlier today.  I have also reset Photoshop's settings folder as instructed. No change to V26 casting a blue hue.

The issue is not related to a single image.  As I said, even if I use a different colour proofing, Monitor RGB is the only one that makes a difference but still has a pink hue cast onto the transparency grid of an image and the colours in the colour window are still tinted blue. See attached image V26 HDR Monitor RGB.

Images attached show the colour issues with Monitor RGB proofing and CMYK proofing selected.  See attached image V26 HDR on New.  Even with HDR disabled, V26 casts a pink hue over an image's transparency grid.  Only using the compatibility tab and ticking the legacy display ICC colour option in Windows for the photoshop.exe corrects the issue.  See attached image V26 HDR on Legacy ICC. V25 does not have this problem regardless of HDR profiles.
Cheers,
Bryn

[Josh23375867fyo3]

I had this very same issue.   In windows11 I had to go to the launch file (the one your shortcut links to) and right click it and go properties, then on the compatibility tab and put a checkmark in the box "Use legacy display ICC Color Management" an that fixed the problem.  Never had an issue with this till PS2025. 

[Brynmor37143109f5al]

Yes, as above, I did the same thing.  However, I never had a problem with version 25 only version 26.  With the release of version 26.2 the problem has been resolved on my machine, although I am not sure if that is a result of changes to Photoshop or an update to Win11.

[NB, colourmanagement]

@Brynmor37143109f5al " Changing proof setups in V26 has no effect, except for Monitor RGB.  This results in the image looking like it does in V26 with HDR disabled"

setting custom/proof setup to Monitor RGB and activating proof colors, basically disables colour management. Sadly, then, that's not a workaround.

I hope this helps
neil barstow, colourmanagement net - adobe forum volunteer - co-author: 'getting colour right'
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