Colors are All Off

DB
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Dusty_Beckett
Aug 23, 2006
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Hi,
I seem to be having problems with my colours in Photoshop. All of them seem to be inaccurate mainly the greys have turn to green. What can I do to fix this? I’ve tried using different profiles. The colours on my screen are perfectly accurate, because when I preview the pictures they have accurate colors. Thanks for the help.
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John_Slate
Aug 23, 2006
inaccurate how? in print?
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chrisjbirchall
Aug 23, 2006
because when I preview the pictures they have accurate colors

I assume you mean "when you preview them" in something other than Photoshop.

Photoshop is a colour-managed workspace. To set this up so that it displays the colours correctly, you will need to run Adobe Gamma, which you will find in the Control Panel. (If you have an LCD screen you will need to download a third-party profiling utility).

Spend fifteen minutes at <http://www.computer-darkroom.com> for a fuller understanding of colour management.

Chris.
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John Joslin
Aug 23, 2006
(If you have an LCD screen you will may need to download a third-party profiling utility).
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Olaf_Ulrich
Aug 23, 2006
I used to have a similar problem: While editing an image in Photoshop, it looked fine; when viewing it elsewhere (e. g. using the Windows Fax and Picture Viewer or a web browser) then it would come up way too red. Eventually I found the reason: Years ago, I played around a bit with Windows’ monitor ICC profiles and mindlessly installed one and forgot about it, as it apparently didn’t change anything.

But later when I started using Photoshop, that dratted ICC monitor profile (which of course did not match my monitor) unfolded its power. It took me months to find out what was going on. Finally I deleted the profile (in the Windows System Settings); now everything is fine.

— Olaf
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Dusty_Beckett
Aug 23, 2006
Sorry I forgot, I have an LCD and by preview I mean saving and looking at in windows, or even just looking at my image in the "Save for Web" window.

What kind of third party profile will I need? I have a Dell UltraSharp.
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chrisjbirchall
Aug 23, 2006
< http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/acd-profile.shtm l>

has some useful information on profiling LCD monitors.
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Ronald_Greenberg
Aug 25, 2006
Look to simple things as a possible source of your problem, if the complexified things don’t give an answer. I had a problem two weeks ago where everything I printed turned green.
I have an excellent understanding of color management, including monitors which I calibrate with a Spyder2Pro to make my monitor profiles. And I thought, oh gosh, I must be letting photoshop and the epson r1800 print drivers both manage the color, because that can cause that type of problem. But that was not it.
After wasting a few sheets of glossy paper, and being stumped and very annoyed, I decided to look for a simpler answer, since I knew that computers are finite systems, meaning if you think of everything that happens along the chain from your brain to the printer, the answer will be there somewhere.

So I decided to clean my print heads. When I ran the epson utility for this, it said it couldn’t communicate with the printer. It suggested unplugging and replugging the usb cable. I did this, the utility found the printer, cleaned the print head, and suddenly my beautiful perfect prints were back. I don’t know which of these moves fixed the problem and I don’t care, it was fixed.

I don’t know if this relates to your problem but I hope it helps. If your settings in Photoshop, print drivers etc. have not changed, and your color is suddenly off, the solution to the problem may lie elsewhere.
Best regards,
Ron Greenberg,
DB
Dusty_Beckett
Aug 25, 2006
These problems are happening in photoshop, not when I print. But thank you for the advice. I’ve been batteling this problem for almost 8 months now and I’m so stumped. All the links I’ve received have been dead ends for me. All I need is a working color profile. When I view pictures off my brothers Cannon 20D all the colors are accurate in photoshop, including the greys.
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chrisjbirchall
Aug 25, 2006
Please re-read post #2.

Photoshop is most likely the only colour managed app on your computer. You must properly create a monitor profile for Photoshop to represent your colours accurately. All the information is in those links.

It can be a minefield. But you will reap the benefits once you have it set up correctly.

Best of luck with it.

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