Color Brightness Issue

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Posted By
Chris_Watkins
Jun 2, 2004
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When working in Photoshop 7.0, the image appears much darker in Photoshop than it does when viewed using any other Windows program (Image Viewer, Internet Explorer, etc.) or when printing. I’m running Windows XP Home with 256 MB RAM and a 1.6 Ghz Intel P4 with 10 GB of free disk space.

Thanks in advance for the help!
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LenHewitt
Jun 2, 2004
When working in Photoshop 7 you are working in a colour managed environment. Outside of Photoshop generally you’re not.

If you choose Proof Colours and set to Monitor RGB, you will see on-screen in Photoshop the same colour and brightness as you see in non-colour managed applications.
CW
Chris_Watkins
Jun 2, 2004
That’s excellent! Is there any way to make that a permanent setting instead of a picture-by-picture setting?

Thanks again!
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LenHewitt
Jun 3, 2004
Well, by setting your RGB working space to sRGB, Photoshop will display a lot nearer to other applications, but sRGB isn’t as good an editing space as AdobeRGB(1998) should you ever need to convert an image to CMYK, or output to a device with a different colour space than sRGB

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