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isalore
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December 20, 2019
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SRGB profile displaying the wrong colors after Windows 10 update...

  • December 20, 2019
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Hi,

So, apparently after a Windows 10 update my color profiles are completely messed up in Photoshop, as you can see SRGB profile display limited colors and values, before the update I was using this profile just fine, it looked like in the second image, but now I had to switch to Monitor RGB profile to display the right colors, however by doing this the gray scale value check I use frequently doesnt display the right graytone values in comparison to the colors anymore... Any ideas whats going on here? What happened? Let me also add, SRGB profile works fine on my TV which is really strange?

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Correct answer D Fosse

You're going about this the wrong way. Never set color management policies to "off". It should always be set to "preserve embedded profiles". And of course the working RGB should never be the monitor profile. Set it back to sRGB.

 

If it doesn't display correctly, you have a defective/corrupt monitor profile. It happens quite often that bad manufacturer profiles are distributed through Windows Update.Go into Windows Color Management and replace your current monitor profile with sRGB. The proper way to deal with it is to use a calibrator to make a new profile, but if you don't have one, sRGB will often be close enough.

 

The document profile is not the issue and making changes in Photoshop Color Settings will only make the problem worse. The defaults are safe settings. Never change them unless you know what you're doing.

 

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D Fosse
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D FosseCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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December 20, 2019

You're going about this the wrong way. Never set color management policies to "off". It should always be set to "preserve embedded profiles". And of course the working RGB should never be the monitor profile. Set it back to sRGB.

 

If it doesn't display correctly, you have a defective/corrupt monitor profile. It happens quite often that bad manufacturer profiles are distributed through Windows Update.Go into Windows Color Management and replace your current monitor profile with sRGB. The proper way to deal with it is to use a calibrator to make a new profile, but if you don't have one, sRGB will often be close enough.

 

The document profile is not the issue and making changes in Photoshop Color Settings will only make the problem worse. The defaults are safe settings. Never change them unless you know what you're doing.

 

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    isaloreAuthor
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    December 20, 2019

    Thanks so much for the response, I tried to change the profile in color managment but there´s no option for it?

    Let me also add that if I first open the Photoshop file on my TV having turned off the dell monitor in nvidia control panel, and then switching from the TV to the dell monitor in nvidia control panel, the photoshop file works all of a sudden on the dell monitor... its so weird. There´s an add button in "all profiles" tab but I dont have the SRGB profile on my PC it seems...? 

     

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