Color settings question

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MickEe
Sep 15, 2005
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Hi guys (and gals),

I have a question about color settings.

In the image window a neutral grey (equal RGB) looks reddish, even more red than the neutral background of the photoshop workspace.
The same image in Internet Explorer doesn’t have this problem (on the computer / same monitor etc.)

Changing colorsettings, or running Adobe Gamma hasn’t brought a solution.

What settings do i have to adjust to change only the way Photoshop displays the neutrals ?

Thanks for your time to answer.

MickEe

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Mike Russell
Sep 16, 2005
"MickEe" wrote in message
Hi guys (and gals),

I have a question about color settings.

In the image window a neutral grey (equal RGB) looks reddish, even more red than the neutral background of the photoshop workspace. The same image in Internet Explorer doesn’t have this problem (on the computer / same monitor etc.)

Changing colorsettings, or running Adobe Gamma hasn’t brought a solution.
What settings do i have to adjust to change only the way Photoshop displays the neutrals ?

Thanks for your time to answer.

Try running Adobe Gamma one more time, making sure that the rgb gamma sliders are combined as a single slider.


Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
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Waldo
Sep 16, 2005
Mike Russell wrote:
"MickEe" wrote in message

Hi guys (and gals),

I have a question about color settings.

In the image window a neutral grey (equal RGB) looks reddish, even more red than the neutral background of the photoshop workspace. The same image in Internet Explorer doesn’t have this problem (on the computer / same monitor etc.)

Changing colorsettings, or running Adobe Gamma hasn’t brought a solution.
What settings do i have to adjust to change only the way Photoshop displays the neutrals ?

Thanks for your time to answer.

Try running Adobe Gamma one more time, making sure that the rgb gamma sliders are combined as a single slider.

My experience in using a single slider in Adobe Gamma is that I never achieved a neutral gray 🙁

Waldo
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MickEe
Sep 16, 2005
Thanks Mike…

….for your tip, but unfortunately no luck with Adobe Gamma this time

The funny thing is that the grey background of photoshop (i mean the window behind the canvas) is perfectly neutral.
Only the neutral grey on the canvas appears reddish (very clear because easy to compare with the forementioned background)

I make an image (no.1) anf fill it with neutral grey.
After a printscreen the screendump is loaded as a new image (no.2). Within this image (no.2) the eyedropper on the photoshop background-part gives me a 127,127,127 RGB value.
The image-part (no.1) in this screendump-image (nr.2) was originally filled with the 127,127,127 grey, but returns an RGB value of 147,135,126 !!

I’m puzzled, and in "desperate" need of another tip 🙂

MickEe

"Mike Russell" wrote in message
"MickEe" wrote in message
Hi guys (and gals),

I have a question about color settings.

In the image window a neutral grey (equal RGB) looks reddish, even more red than the neutral background of the photoshop workspace. The same image in Internet Explorer doesn’t have this problem (on the computer / same monitor etc.)

Changing colorsettings, or running Adobe Gamma hasn’t brought a solution.
What settings do i have to adjust to change only the way Photoshop displays the neutrals ?

Thanks for your time to answer.

Try running Adobe Gamma one more time, making sure that the rgb gamma sliders are combined as a single slider.


Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com

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Mike Russell
Sep 16, 2005
From: "Waldo"
[re use of multiple slider option in Adobe Gamma]

My experience in using a single slider in Adobe Gamma is that I never achieved a neutral gray 🙁

I think your experience is relatively unusual.

As an initial approximation I recommend that people use the single slider, since it’s so easy to get in trouble using all three sliders. If you are able to find tune above and beyond that, more power to you.


Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
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Mike Russell
Sep 16, 2005
From: "MickEe"

Thanks Mike…

…for your tip, but unfortunately no luck with Adobe Gamma this time
The funny thing is that the grey background of photoshop (i mean the window behind the canvas) is perfectly neutral.

So far so good. This means that your Adobe Gamma settings are probably not the problem.

Only the neutral grey on the canvas appears reddish (very clear because easy to compare with the forementioned background)

I make an image (no.1) anf fill it with neutral grey.
After a printscreen the screendump is loaded as a new image (no.2). Within this image (no.2) the eyedropper on the photoshop background-part gives me a 127,127,127 RGB value.
The image-part (no.1) in this screendump-image (nr.2) was originally filled with the 127,127,127 grey, but returns an RGB value of 147,135,126 !!

I’m puzzled, and in "desperate" need of another tip 🙂

It’s a bit of a shot in the dark, but go to Edit>Color Settings and change your working RGB space to Adobe RGB. If that fixes the problem, your sRGB profile may have been modified at one point when you ran Adobe Gamma, so try downloading the sRGB profile from adobe.com and switching your working color space back to sRGB.


Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com

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