Why does everything look darker in PS than in other apps??

Hi all,

I’ve asked this before and never received an answer that made any sense. Photoshop CS displays all my photos and graphics files significantly darker than any other app, including ACDSee, viewing my uploaded files on the web, my Epson printer preview, etc. I have not been able to find any way to alter the display gamma of Photoshop alone–is there a way??

The funny thing is that this problem only happens with XP. My work computer using Win 2K and my old home computer with Win2K do not have this problem. I am not using Adobe Gamma; I’ve calibrated my monitor with a Pantone Spyder. This happens only with PS.

Anybody have any ideas what might be going on?

TIA for any light you might be able to shed…

Toby

Toby wrote:

Hi all,

I’ve asked this before and never received an answer that made any sense. Photoshop CS displays all my photos and graphics files significantly darker than any other app, including ACDSee, viewing my uploaded files on the web, my Epson printer preview, etc. I have not been able to find any way to alter the display gamma of Photoshop alone–is there a way??
The funny thing is that this problem only happens with XP. My work computer using Win 2K and my old home computer with Win2K do not have this problem. I am not using Adobe Gamma; I’ve calibrated my monitor with a Pantone Spyder. This happens only with PS.

Anybody have any ideas what might be going on?

TIA for any light you might be able to shed…

Toby

Do you have both the ColorVision/Pantone software and Adobe Gamma active??? In that case, you’ll get wrong colors and you should disable Adobe Gamma loader (remove it from the Startup folder).

Waldo

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Toby wrote:

Hi all,

I’ve asked this before and never received an answer that made any sense. Photoshop CS displays all my photos and graphics files significantly darker than any other app, including ACDSee, viewing my uploaded files on the web, my Epson printer preview, etc. I have not been able to find any way to alter the display gamma of Photoshop alone–is there a way??
The funny thing is that this problem only happens with XP. My work computer using Win 2K and my old home computer with Win2K do not have this problem. I am not using Adobe Gamma; I’ve calibrated my monitor with a Pantone Spyder. This happens only with PS.

Anybody have any ideas what might be going on?

TIA for any light you might be able to shed…

Toby

Do you have both the ColorVision/Pantone software and Adobe Gamma active??? In that case, you’ll get wrong colors and you should disable Adobe Gamma loader (remove it from the Startup folder).

Waldo

My thoughts exactly – you may not have calibrated using Adobe Gamma, but if it’s active at startup – then you will get conflicts.
Si.