"Solarized" image only with PhotoShop

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Randy_Hughes
Aug 6, 2004
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I am using Windows XP, PS 7.01 with an nVidia e-Ge-Force FX 5200 and a Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 2070SB. The monitor is new. The odd problem that cropped up a couple of days ago is that the image in Photo shop appears solarized mainly in darker areas with abrupt, jagged changes to black and the image overall is dull. Basically, it stinks. The same image opened in ImageReady or ThumbsPlus looks perfect with smooth gradation everywhere. Opening the same image with my old sony monitor hooked up shows no sign of the solarization with PhotoShop, ImageReady or ThumbsPlus – it looks fine with all of those programs.

I have uninstalled and re-installed photoshop (starting at 3.0)thinking it would re-set something I somehow unset, but this didn’t change anything. I have also re-calibrated with ColorVision Spyder Pro. Mitsubishi said it has to be a PhotoShop problem.

I feel that this has to be something that I have inadvertently set wrong in the color preferences or somewhere else.

Any suggestions? Thanks, Randy
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Chris_Cox
Aug 6, 2004
Your display profile is bad, as explained in the FAQ.
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Randy_Hughes
Aug 7, 2004
I’m not following this well and I didn’t find anything in the FAQs that I understood well enough to correct the problem.

If the display profile is bad, why is it only affecting PhotoShop and not any other imaging programs and why would it not show up when I connect the PC to another monitor (even using the monitor profile set up for the Mitsubishi)? Seem’s it must be some setting (that I’ve changed even though I’d don’t recall doing that) that controlls how PhotoShop on THIS PC talks to THIS monitor. Is there some place other than color settings that I should be looking?

Thanks for the help,

Randy
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dave_milbut
Aug 7, 2004
f the display profile is bad, why is it only affecting PhotoShop

because only photoshop is a color managed enviornment. rerun adobe gamma from the control panel to fix the monitor profile.
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Thomas_Madsen
Aug 7, 2004
because only photoshop is a color managed enviornment.

ThumbsPlus is also a color managed environment, but you have to enable it, as far as I remember, meaning that it’s not color managed directly "out of the box"

This is a screenshot from ThumbsPlus 6:
< http://home18.inet.tele.dk/madsen/thumbsplus/color_managemen t.png> A great image browser by the way.

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Madsen
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Randy_Hughes
Aug 8, 2004
Thanks for your help – it seems to be solved! I should have written down the exact chain of steps because I’m not completely sure of the sequence now. I think it went like this. I believe I re-loaded Adobe RGB 1998 from file and calibrated/profiled w the spyder again and got the old crummy image again. I down loaded the monitor driver from Mitsubishi and loaded it replacing the plug-n-play in XP, opened photo shop and got completely pink images. Why not re-calibrate again – I’ve done it about 20 times in the past few days. Huge sigh of relief …. the image looks perfect with Adobe RGB 1998 selected as the working space now and prints match the monitor image. It was probably the new driver that fixed it, but re-loading Adobe RGB may have been at least part of the fix. Anyway – Thanks
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dave_milbut
Aug 8, 2004
good going randy. glad to help.

dave

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