Monitor issue–Photoshop only

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Feb 13, 2006
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This is an issue that’s driving me crazy. I’ve installed CS2 as an upgrade to CS1. All programs operate fine except in Photoshop CS2. My monitor shows the color white as a yellow shade…like aged parchment. It’s just the monitor but it’s just in Photoshop…When I draw something in Illustrator and bring it over, the white is displayed as this yellowish hue, but it prints out white. When I start a new document in CS2 it shows white as the yellowish hue. It prints white, but it looks yellow. Some have advised me to just live with it but I can’t–how do I know true white without printing it out first? My color settings for the working spaces are set the same in both Illustrator and Photoshop. My first thought was to calibrate my monitor, but I think that might skew things in Illustrator and other programs. Everything I use shows the white as white, except Photoshop.

Can anyone help me with this?

Rock Roszak
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Mike Hyndman
Feb 13, 2006
"Rocket" wrote in message
This is an issue that’s driving me crazy. I’ve installed CS2 as an upgrade to CS1. All programs operate fine except in Photoshop CS2. My monitor shows the color white as a yellow shade…like aged parchment. It’s just the monitor but it’s just in Photoshop…When I draw something in Illustrator and bring it over, the white is displayed as this yellowish hue, but it prints out white. When I start a new document in CS2 it shows white as the yellowish hue. It prints white, but it looks yellow. Some have advised me to just live with it but I can’t–how do I know true white without printing it out first? My color settings for the working spaces are set the same in both Illustrator and Photoshop. My first thought was to calibrate my monitor, but I think that might skew things in Illustrator and other programs. Everything I use shows the white as white, except Photoshop.
Rock,

Photoshop is a colour managed application (the others are not) and therefore needs to be calibrated to ensure that what you see on the screen appears in the print.
What you are experiencing is the effect of a non calibrated monitor. You have two choices, 1) Calibrate your monitor; 2) Live with it. see http://www.computer-darkroom.com/ps8_colour/ps8_1.htm

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Rocket
Feb 13, 2006
Thanks for the link, Mike. I’ll go with calibration–just thought if I changed things for Photoshop it might have an adverse impact on Illustrator where I do the majority of my work.

Rock

"Mike Hyndman" wrote in message
"Rocket" wrote in message
This is an issue that’s driving me crazy. I’ve installed CS2 as an upgrade to CS1. All programs operate fine except in Photoshop CS2. My monitor shows the color white as a yellow shade…like aged parchment. It’s just the monitor but it’s just in Photoshop…When I draw something in Illustrator and bring it over, the white is displayed as this yellowish hue, but it prints out white. When I start a new document in CS2 it shows white as the yellowish hue. It prints white, but it looks yellow. Some have advised me to just live with it but I can’t–how do I know true white without printing it out first? My color settings for the working spaces are set the same in both Illustrator and Photoshop. My first thought was to calibrate my monitor, but I think that might skew things in Illustrator and other programs. Everything I use shows the white as white, except Photoshop.
Rock,

Photoshop is a colour managed application (the others are not) and therefore needs to be calibrated to ensure that what you see on the screen appears in the print.
What you are experiencing is the effect of a non calibrated monitor. You have two choices, 1) Calibrate your monitor; 2) Live with it. see http://www.computer-darkroom.com/ps8_colour/ps8_1.htm
MH

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Mike Hyndman
Feb 13, 2006
"Rocket" wrote in message
Thanks for the link, Mike. I’ll go with calibration–just thought if I changed things for Photoshop it might have an adverse impact on Illustrator where I do the majority of my work.
Rock,
GTH, 😉
I know a number of people who use both apps and they have no problem post calibration.
How many times do you use in excess of 16 million colours (8 bit) in Illustrator? As you have discovered it’s the whites that tends to suffer, you should also be seeing a less noticable shift in the greys as well. Sure sign of incorrect gamut.

Regards
Mike H

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