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joachimandr
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May 29, 2017
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Wrong colors on monitor

  • May 29, 2017
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Hi!

I have a problem with PS showing colors differently  than they appear in OS viewer programs and Rendering programme like Cinema 4D.

My workaround so far has been to activate proof colors: monitor, wich seems to show the colors correctly. But this is not an ideal working situation... See attached file: Left shows image in OS viewer, right side is what i get when opening file in PS. I have reasently moved from mac to windows, and have never had this problem before. I now have windows 10, I have reset and reinstalled PS with no effect. I now use Europe General Purpose 3 color settings. I have a monitor: BenQ 27" SW2700PT, set to standard colors. Please help

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    Correct answer c.pfaffenbichler

    Photoshop is Color Managed, if you compare it to applications that are not then the problems are not Adobe’s making.

    If an image does not have an Embedded Colour Profile Photoshop will use its RGB (or CMYK) Working Space to interpret the image.

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    c.pfaffenbichler
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    c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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    May 29, 2017

    Photoshop is Color Managed, if you compare it to applications that are not then the problems are not Adobe’s making.

    If an image does not have an Embedded Colour Profile Photoshop will use its RGB (or CMYK) Working Space to interpret the image.

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    joachimandrAuthor
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    May 29, 2017

    Thank you for the answer! It seams that the image shows up more or less  the same way in all other programs than Photoshop (Adobe). So it would be nice to set PS up so it at least gets close to displaying the image as would in e.g. the web browser, which in this case is the main target. As seen in the attached file the difference is quite huge.

    D Fosse
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    D FosseCommunity Expert
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    May 29, 2017

    Im not really into color management simply as I have found the theme quite complcated  and I have not been faced with it as a big issue before. I checked, and I save with color profile. To emhasize my issue: I now rendered an image from Cinema 4D which exports jpeg to srgb as default. When I open this image in PS with general purpose srgb settings it appears just as different... I have worked with illustrations for years and never faced anything like this before. I suspect I might have something to do with Windows 10 OS settings...? I have worked with OSX up to resently.


    joachimandr  wrote

    Im not really into color management simply as I have found the theme quite complcated  and I have not been faced with it as a big issue before.

    You didn't have a wide gamut monitor before. Now that you do, you have to get into it.

    A wide gamut monitor can only be used in a fully color managed environment. It has to be properly calibrated and profiled, so that those color managed applications have a valid display profile to work with. Applications without color management will never under any circumstances display correctly.

    The other option is to sell it and get a standard gamut monitor. 

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