ok, Photoshop "matches" AfterEffects (good) they are fully color managed export to a movie file - see it saturated since it's Vlc and not color managed good useful observation (but you mean the heavy red saturation, right) when viewed in other monitors it's saturated. you mean sRGB it looks a little bit more saturated and a little bit heavier in blacks, or the reds blazing like you see here in this simulation of sRGB in an unmanaged AdobeRGB-compliant monitor (the bottom series is how unmanaged sRGB saturates reds on an AdobeRGB type monitor compared to the top series in a fully color managed application like Photoshop) click on the PDI image to pop it open, then drag it to your desktop or right click on it and save/download (this saves downloads a copy of my original tagged example), then open it in Photoshop (use the sRGB profile) and compare the skintones the problem is only in my screen from what I see I am the only one who sees the image like this: if you are talking about Photoshop or any fully-managed app looking unique to your monitor, that's sure sign your monitor profile isn't right like D Fosse pointed you to earlier... man, dump that old monitor or use it for tools and apply the free advice you saved here to a new QUALITY reference monitor, personally I wouldn't go wide gamut without a sound sRGB preset, but if you are peddling crappy color that's going to catch up to you sooner or later don't think I'm bad mouthing wide gamut monitors, they are great for fully-color-managed viewing environments, they just turn unmanaged sRGB red... PS:  one cheap easy trick that may help nail a bad monitor profile in Photoshop is to open high resolution Photodisc PDI .jpg (to fill the monitor up with pixels) then EDIT> ADJUSTMENTS> DESATURATE zoom in 100% Actual Pixels or 50% - if it looks absolutely neutral gray, good clean black to white steps -- your monitor may be ok -- if it has any color cast in any area you monitor profile is bad. ... View more

I understand the whole theory and practice then exactly where is the problem occurring - you should be able to easily narrow it down to one  broken 'link' in your workflow problem is - in all the Monitors I see - the result is saturated (can't say - over saturated. it looks fine) you say the problem is apparent in all the monitors you see, the result is saturated, but you can't say over saturated because it looks fine - not sure i'm following you there however, if you save-out tagged sRGB in Photoshop, import it into After Effects (and use the embedded profile) - and then export your project with no profile conversions - you should have sRGB in the exported document (test with and without embedded profiles in your exported document) that exported document should display okay on properly-profiled sRGB-compliant monitors on aRGB (Adobe RGB-compliant) monitors - it's expected the exported sRGB document will display with a strong over saturation in reds (unless it is fully color-managed like Photoshop) - if you are not seeing that behavior, logic says you are either missing something, have a corrupted or buggy system or hardware issues also, be aware, Windows and some 'color-managed' apps under Windows may only be converting Source> sRGB (not Source> MonitorRGB as Photoshop does) thanks for the update on AfterEffects color management support -- Ps, Id, Acrobat Pro, Illustrator also support color management and i can offhand think of a dozen ways screw them up BEFORE i even send them down stream... i have a great lightly used 24" NEC sRGB monitor in San Diego if you want a deal, i don't use it anymore, it was $1,300 new, i recall no HDMI support w/o a DVI-HDMI conversion cable ... View more

can't say that all of this makes sense with the result I am seeing. I have been struggling with this issue for over a year... can't see the point now to use color management in Ps or Ae since the result looks the same in other computers. maybe I need a new Monitor. your color workflow should appear to you with clarity like links in a chain once you understand how your software (and hardware) react to profiles/colorspaces the broken link should appear logically and quite matter-of-factly with no guessing around there is a old windows thread here that a gal had very similar problems using her wide gamut monitor that never got solved -- it went on for seven pages like this... my advice to you is set up your workflow using a known reference image with more normal skin tones (like the Photodisc PDI jpg) and buy a quality sRGB-compliant monitor (or at least borrow one to test your setup and work flow) BTW, i recall Ae is not color managed, thinking it is may be part of the problem i would also suggest taking a few minutes to learn how to use Photoshop color management because it is extremely useful for proofing your document's so-called 'true color' (if you can get your monitor profile "link" ruled out) ... View more

RENDERING INTENT is the term for how Photoshop (and print utilities) allow us to control the color re-mapping/transformation process during a profile conversion two common rendering intent options are PERCEPTUAL & RELATIVE COLORIMETRIC perceptual is said to "compress" the colors into a smaller color space relative colorimetric "clips" the information and discards it if you are unsure which rendering intent to use, try each one and compare the results ... View more

is it possible to change a color profile with no permanent changes in the original file? for additional clarity: Photoshop> Edit> ASSIGN Profile (is the move my Bruce Fraser's text was referring to) Photoshop> Edit> CONVERT to Profile does change/degrade the color (if the conversion move is saved, the damage is permanent and cannot be recovered.  if the conversion move is not saved, the degradation still occurred in the open document, but is not permanent because it was not saved) generally use and maintain the original embedded profile (color space) -- convert to a destination profile only as needed -- keep profile conversions to an absolute minimum because the clip or compress color information ... View more

Bruce Fraser summed this up in an Adobe forum: "You could change profiles a thousand times via Assign Profile and the image would not degrade... inasmuch as the numbers in the file wouldn't change, this is true. But it would display incorrectly, and convert to any other space incorrectly, so it's fair to say that while the integrity of the data hasn't been compromised, and you can rescue the file by assigning the correct profile, for all practical purposes, it's hosed." ... View more

when an RGB document (or object) is opened in an un-color-managed application -- its RGB numbers are typically sent straight through to the monitor with no internal attempt to correct the color for monitor proofing this effect is easy to prove and observe in Photoshop: download a copy of the Photodisc PDI Whacked RGB target jpg http://www.gballard.net/photoshop/pdi_download/#downloads see the directions there to open the target using the embedded profile downloading and testing the ProPhotoRGB version might be easier for you to see my point once the PDI document is opened correctly, View> Proof Setup> Monitor RGB (to simulate "softproof" how the un-color-managed app will display the colors), but don't forget to toggle it back off my point is: you need to get a working knowledge for how your apps deal with profiles and configure your print utility to make a proper conversion to your print profile for color management to work optimally, all your profiles need to be 'accurate' for their proofing spaces ... View more

when an ICC profile is absent or ignored in a document opened in Photoshop (or any color-managed app), its color management system or module must make an assumption (assign a profile for all practical purposes) BEFORE it converts the document colors to the monitor space for 'accurate' proofing on the monitor likewise, when an ICC profile is absent or ignored in a document opened in Photoshop (or any color-managed app), its color management system must make an assumption (assign a profile for all practical purposes) BEFORE it converts the document colors to the print space for 'accurate' proofing on the substrate the source ICC profile is independent of the monitor and print spaces (profiles) - hopefully my point is you need to be sure Photoshop is using or applying the correct document profile BEFORE Photoshop can display or print it faithfully ... View more

images to PDF from InDesign to send to a printer in a certain CMYK colour profile, should the rest of the Adobe applications be set to this profile as well for consistency? you don't say 1) what your original document and object source profiles are, 2) if you are doing any profile conversions in your export process, or 3) if your printer CMYK is a device-specific profile that you use exclusively or case by case but, most important for managing your profiles and maintaining color "consistency" across proofing devices like monitors and printers -- within Adobe applications -- is to set all Adobe application Color Settings to PRESERVE EMBEDDED PROFILES and enable their PROFILE WARNINGS so you know what's going on with your profiles... ... View more

btw -- if you are taking that lime green to print, especially cmyk, you may want to do a gamut warning or a proof colors (soft proofing) because it may not reproduce good... ... View more

thanks, again (i don't see the HELPFUL buttons anymore of i would give u a couple clicks) no migration assistant used -- i installed 10.10.2 on top of two healthy 10.8 systems -- everything appears to work on both machines except illustrator (and that's working now on both 2011 macbook pros since i installed java 8 and ran the Terminal routines as noted) i also saw a lot of Adobe uninstall/reinstall advice about how to fix this JAVA issue on many sites i was researching -- my point for adding my last comment and this redundant comment about that fire drill is it seems to be irrelvent to fixing this issue -- at least for me the fix was clearly adding the two folders through the Terminal or manually as in the screenshots i posted ... View more

Uninstall-reinstall Illustrator CS6 16.0.4 on my second upgraded 10.10.2 late 2011 MacBook Pro DID NOT WORK -- still received this JAVA error: running the Terminal commands worked effortlessly again...  not sure why people recommend the uninstall/reinstall fire drill to fix the solution for this Java problem, because it didn't work here (and I rebooted the machine) and the reinstall seemed irrelevant to getting illustrator to launch... I uninstalled only illustrator using the Adobe CS6 Design and Web Premium uninstaller option in Utilities> Adobe installers and reinstalled from the original Install DVD, but it didn't work until I ran the Terminal routines to create the folders as noted previously. ... View more

Here's how System> Library> Java folder looks after running the terminal codes: (I'm slightly curious if uninstalling/reinstalling Illustrator would have worked without installing Java since it seems Apple doesn't like Java)? Now I have to watch I keep Java updated (I will be switching another 2011 Macbook Pro over to 10.10.2 and will try the reinstall without installing the Java)... ... View more

My 10.10.2 system navigates like this HD> System> Library> Java (shown below): i don't have a JavaVirtualMachines> 1.6.0.jdk or a Support> Deploy.bundle in the java folder above, am i supposed to make a new folder "JavaVirtualMachines" and make a new folder in that folder called "1.6.0.jdk" -- for example, is that what you mean? do you have a screenshot in column view of how it is supposed to look? thanks... ... View more

pixel images are rastered images, i recall Photoshop has to raster Illustrator vector data into pixels to do what you are doing probably better to read up on the subject from a more qualified source... using my suggested method -- open the .ai directly in Photoshop -- and pick the target raster settings (your pixel width or height) for the sharpest raster -- i avoid resizing those types of raster images because the process can degrade them pretty rapidly ... View more

. i don't see the problem - it is what i would expect is the 600 pixel the freshly-rastered image in Photoshop or the Save for Web document reopened maybe a different font would translate better to that size? again, remember always evaluate pixels in Photoshop at View> 100% (actual pixels) ... View more

. and you really should attach a screenshot so we can see exactly what you are seeing (pixel for pixel)... ... View more

here is an example sceenshot of the opening dialog (.ai opened directly in Photoshop) your illustrator vector should be rastered sharp at 100% actual Pixels in Photoshop that is where you want to evaluate sharpness in Photoshop... then File> Save for Web & Devices (and drag that saved file icon into an open web browser) still no joy, embed your saved image here using the forum's camera icon... ... View more

. you can't just open the .ai document in Photoshop and set the pixel dimensions to the desired width or height??? ... View more

jadazu wrote: Use Photoshop to "Edit > Convert to Profile >  Epson Premum Glossy profile" before you print you probably don't want to waste time going down that trail (manually converting to the print profile), it's been discussed here before by Chris Cox and it probably isn't doing what you might expect the short answer is use Photoshop Manages Colors and set up the printer utility to convert to the Print Space... ... View more

my test print for 8 months now, is of a flower of an extremely unusual color. Since I know the color of this flower in nature I am using this as my benchmark. On the screen it is the vivid and true sky-blue-hue, and background is vivid coastal Australian green first it sounds like you may have OUT OF GAMUT COLORS that SOFT PROOFING (Photoshop View> Proof SetUp> Custom) may be able to help figure it out i would start you off troubleshooting your workflow with a copy of the Getty-Photodisc Image PDI WHACKED RGB .JPG and review the PHOTOSHOP MANAGES COLORS WORK FLOW basics... ... View more

i would suggest downloading the Photoshop demo and opening it in trial mode, that will give you the latest camera raw plugin and the ability to work on and save your images out in .psd, .tif, .jpg (i think the trial works for 30 days) ... View more

pixel dimensions are what count (not resolution ppi/dpi) if you don't change pixel dimensions, i would not expect to see any changes in Ps preview (or document size) or i missed something... ... View more