Photoshop, Windows, Colorimeter Color Settings

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February 11, 2017
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Experiencing color differences between Photoshop (any version) and other apps like color managed Firefox where the sRGB is verified to display correctly (http://www.gballard.net/firefox/). Photoshop colors are all washed out but browsers are saturated. Windows Photo Viewer results look like Photoshop.

Photoshop Color Settings set to N.America Gen Purpose 2 with Working spaces as default, in particular RGB as sRGB IE61966-2.1

Spyder Elite colorimeter has two color profiles, one for each monitor.

Under Windows 8.1 64 bit Color Management>Devices tab shouldn't my ICC profiles for each monitor be the ones generated by Spyder?

How about under Windows 8.1 64 bit Color Management>AllProfiles tab> for sRGB, should that be default or Spyder?

How about the Advanced tab> under Windows Color System Defaults?

Once I get all those dialed in since I do mostly web work, should I just go by the sRGB view/proofing in Photoshop?

Does that mean if I am going to print any of my photos I need a separate file version color corrected with View>Proof>Monitor RGB temporarily on to use the calibrated profile?

Thanks so much!!!

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Benjamin Root

Legend

Could be your monitor profile is broken. Try re-calibrating your displays

SC-AgencyAuthor

Inspiring

Recalibration of the main laptop monitor looks off, the whites look yellow. Nevertheless the problem with Photoshop being desaturated while Firefox is fine if my default monitor profile is the Spyder persists.

The only way around this is if I set the Windows Color Managerment to sRGB for the profile, but then I am not using the Spyder profile.

What is odd with that is the screen doesn't go to its native blueish tint, it seems to retain the right white color balance etc. even though sRGB is the default profile.

Not sure. I didn't change anything and then yesterday, BOOM, I started having this issue. The only similar issue I've had before is when I drag image tabs/windows around in Photoshop until I let go of them they sometimes look temporarily desaturated. Restarting Photoshop always solved that.

Thanks for any ideas.

Benjamin Root

Legend

Yep, sounds like a broken profile. Delete the two Spyder profiles and do a fresh calibration. Before calibrating, set the white point to "native" if you'd like to use the native white point.

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