When I open a photo in Photoshop (and Illustrator for that matter) the colors of the photos are almost pastel looking. When I print the photos they look just like the original. The reason I'm putting the photos in Photoshop is to edit them. If they open like this I cannot edit them. This started about a couple months ago and I don't know why. I made no changes, it just happened. In the attached screenshot the original is the one on the right. Please help.
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If it's not the GPU, it has to be the monitor profile. It's one of those two.
If you don't have a calibrator, replace your current monitor profile with sRGB IEC61966-2.1. It won't be entirely accurate, but better than a defective profile.
Open Search and type Color Management (or "Colour" if UK English version of Windows). This brings up the color management dialog in Windows, where you can change the monitor profile (screenshot below).
The thing is that many monitor and laptop manufactur
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Thank you for the quick reply. Turning off GPU did not work and neither did enable "Older GPU mode (pre 2016)". I followed one of the links and it said to check GPU compatibility under "help". It told me that I needed to update my graphics driver. I went to Intel's website and updated. Still the same issue. You said "recalibrate and build a new ICC display profile, the old one might be corrupted. If you are using software/hardware for this task, be sure the software is set to build a matrix not LUT profile, Version 2 not Version 4 profile." That is a little over my head, I'm a novice.
It looks exactly the same as if I opened the file outside of photoshop.
It looks exactly the same as if I opened the file outside of photoshop.
By @Isabella5C81
Opening outside Photoshop in what application?
IN Photoshop, convert the image to sRGB (and a copy in Adobe RGB (1998)); outside of Photoshop, what's it look like?
What you show above appears to be what I'd expect to see without color management. So are you setting up the Photoshop soft proof for any of these three items?
If not, again, it appears to be a corrupted display profile.
If it's not the GPU, it has to be the monitor profile. It's one of those two.
If you don't have a calibrator, replace your current monitor profile with sRGB IEC61966-2.1. It won't be entirely accurate, but better than a defective profile.
Open Search and type Color Management (or "Colour" if UK English version of Windows). This brings up the color management dialog in Windows, where you can change the monitor profile (screenshot below).
The thing is that many monitor and laptop manufacturers distribute profiles through Windows Update, and these profiles are surprisingly often defective in various ways. You'd think they'd get it right, but they often don't, and I don't know why Microsoft still allows this.
Relaunch Photoshop when done, it loads the profile at application startup.
There were no profiles at all in there so I added the one you said. After restarting the pic loaded correctly! I use Photoshop and Illustrator to fool around with sublimation. Now I need to learn how to get the designs I make in Illustrator to print the same as I see on the monitor. That's a battle for another day. Thank you for your time!
There were no profiles at all in there so I added the one you said.
By @Isabella5C81
There's always some profile being used. But anyway, what did you add and where? It needs to be a profile that defines your actual display.
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