try recalibrating your monitor via the control panel applet adobe gamma.
needs to be redone periodically, and always if you touch the screen’s setting controls.
Dave, I did that but the problem persists.
Larry,
If you set your Photoshop’s working RGB space to sRGB, the appearance will be much nearer to that in other applications.
To preview exactly what it will look like in other applications, set your Proof Colours to Monitor RGB
Len, The way it is set now is working well for creating JPEGs for video, so I hesitate to change it. Guess I’ll just have to lighten up my e-mail pics. Funny this all happened right after one of the endless MS updates. Perhaps a future update will cure the problem.
The secret is to turn off color management, close PS, then open PS. This solved my problem. Thanks to Pete at the NAPP Help Desk.
There’s no problem at all. Just convert your images (copies) to sRGB. That’s all. Make your RGB working space as sRGB IEC61966-2.1 for mail & web images.
Pipkin, I realize that most do not have the darkening problem I had with JPEG’s. My other identical PC does not have the problem, and this one did not until a few weeks ago. I am simply stating what solved the problem for me on this computer, and YES, it was a problem.
Here’s the info I got from an expert at NAPP:
"When preparing images for the Web, I prefer to go to Photoshop’s Color Settings and select Color Management Off from the top pop-up menu. Since Web browsers don’t properly use ICC profiles, there’s no sense embedding one
in the image. In the Save for Web dialog box, to the upper-right of the preview area, select Uncompensated Color. Do not check the ICC profile box when generating a Jpeg with Save for Web."
The important thing I discovered is that PS must be restarted for the changes made in Color Settings to take affect. (At least on this computer.)
Larry,
So now you’ve crippled Photoshop and gone back to the dark ages of Photoshop
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It sounds from your additional information that creating a new monitor profile would be a far better way of correcting your problems.
Len, The funny thing is that Photoshop did that for me. When I just checked the color settings, in place of "turn off color management" the word "custom" appeared. I changed it to North American… and it still works correctly.
Larry, in this case you’ve got Monitor RGB as RGB working space, haven’t? Monitor RGB is just your system monitor profile being commonly modified or pure sRGB, appeared in Color Management of Display Properties…
