Colour looks bad after importing Tiffs

JC
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John_Classen
Aug 18, 2004
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Ok..so here’s a problem I’m having.

I take great photos with a Canon D10 and then transfer them to my pc which has a colour corrected monitor. If I look at the files before exporting them into Photoshop 7.01 the colour is perfect, the way it should be. When I transfer them into Photoshop the colour changes and it looks terrible. If I leave the colour alone, I know that once I’ve finished working on the file the colour will be ok, but i may need to change colour, tone etc.

I have all my settings correct (Adobe 1998)and have checked and double checked everything. Is there a way to bring everything back to default settings? or how can I "reset" the way things are imported. Have I done something incorrectly or inadvertently tricked myself by clicking something?

Thanks for your counsel.
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DM
dave_milbut
Aug 19, 2004
rerun adobe gamma if that’s your color mgr. or rerun your 3rd party calibrator.
JC
John_Classen
Aug 19, 2004
I have run it hoping to correct the problem, but without success . My colour calibrator is Pantone Colorvision SpiderPro: Optical 3.7.8. After I did that everything looked fine in a regular viewer, but the moment it exported into Photoshop, colour was incredibly bad.
DM
dave_milbut
Aug 19, 2004
are you running both calibrators (memory resident)? that’ll cause conflicts. use one or the other (if you wnat to use spiderpro, remove adobe gamma from the startup folder).
JC
John_Classen
Aug 19, 2004
Great..i’ll try that, tho I have disabled it..i’ll kill it. thanks. any other suggestions will be great.
DM
dave_milbut
Aug 19, 2004
i’ve got no experience with spider, but from your problem description, your problem is almost definately color management. stick with it and keep trying different things.

maybe this will be of some help, it’s quite good and well worth the 10-15 minute read:

<http://www.computer-darkroom.com/ps7-colour/ps7_2.htm>

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