SOS magenta face??

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W Chan
Dec 18, 2006
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I am having a somewhat weird problem…

When opening a jpg or raw file in Photoshop Elements 4.0 or Nikon Capture
4.4, I can see the thumbnails showing portraits with skin colour =
magenta…
When in EDIT mode of both Elements and Nikon Capture, I am seeing the same problem.

When I view the images in Window Explorer (WIN XP), both the thumbnails and filmstrip view versions show normal skin tone…

When I view the images in Photoshop Album Starter 3.0, the skin tone once again is NORMAL…

After seeing the problem, I have removed and reloaded my Photoshop Elements
4.0. But the problem remains.

I have tried recalibrating my monitor (LACIE electron blue 19inch) with sypder 2 software. The problem remains.

When I view web pages, and other windows-based applications, all the colours on screen seem to be NORMAL….

The only problem is when viewing in Nikon Capture and Photoshop Elements!!

What’s wrong??

Any advice please….
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ronviers
Dec 18, 2006
W Chan wrote:
I am having a somewhat weird problem…

When opening a jpg or raw file in Photoshop Elements 4.0 or Nikon Capture
4.4, I can see the thumbnails showing portraits with skin colour =
magenta…
When in EDIT mode of both Elements and Nikon Capture, I am seeing the same problem.

When I view the images in Window Explorer (WIN XP), both the thumbnails and filmstrip view versions show normal skin tone…

When I view the images in Photoshop Album Starter 3.0, the skin tone once again is NORMAL…

After seeing the problem, I have removed and reloaded my Photoshop Elements
4.0. But the problem remains.

I have tried recalibrating my monitor (LACIE electron blue 19inch) with sypder 2 software. The problem remains.

When I view web pages, and other windows-based applications, all the colours on screen seem to be NORMAL….

The only problem is when viewing in Nikon Capture and Photoshop Elements!!

Hi,
It is possible that the color profile information that is embedded into the jpeg or tagged to the raw, thereby being displayed in the jpg preview, is not being handled as expected by applications that are color aware. If this is the case then you need to make sure the color settings are set the way you want them in the camera and in the raw converter. Then inside your applications you will need to make sure you working color space is set the way you want it to be then finally you will want to make sure that when an image is opened it is not converted to an unwanted or unknown color space. Since I do not know your camera and I am not familiar with Photoshop Elements or Nikon Capture you will need to locate where to make these changes but they should be pretty easy to find.

For purposes of testing you could try this:
In the camera set your color space to sRGB.
In the raw converter set the color space to sRGB.
In Elements set the working space to sRGB.
In Elements set the management policy to ‘Preserve Embedded Profile’ (or something like that)

Good luck,
Ron
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Roy G
Dec 19, 2006
"W Chan" wrote in message
I am having a somewhat weird problem…

When opening a jpg or raw file in Photoshop Elements 4.0 or Nikon Capture
4.4, I can see the thumbnails showing portraits with skin colour =
magenta…
When in EDIT mode of both Elements and Nikon Capture, I am seeing the same problem.

When I view the images in Window Explorer (WIN XP), both the thumbnails and
filmstrip view versions show normal skin tone…

When I view the images in Photoshop Album Starter 3.0, the skin tone once again is NORMAL…

After seeing the problem, I have removed and reloaded my Photoshop Elements
4.0. But the problem remains.

I have tried recalibrating my monitor (LACIE electron blue 19inch) with sypder 2 software. The problem remains.

When I view web pages, and other windows-based applications, all the colours
on screen seem to be NORMAL….

The only problem is when viewing in Nikon Capture and Photoshop Elements!!
What’s wrong??

Any advice please….
Hi.

I can’t give an exact reason, but it is noticeable that the programs showing the correct colours are all Non Colour Managed, and the ones with the magenta are all Colour Managed.

There is obviously a Profile being applied somewhere which is causing this.

Have you removed Adobe Gamma from your system?

If not it will be applying additional corrections to your Spyder corrected Monitor.

Roy G

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