Color Difference Between Working Documents and Saved Files

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Stephen_M._Walker_II
Nov 10, 2006
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Over the last couple of days, I have noticed that all graphics opened in Photoshop are lightened in some sort of way, but when I actually save them to web, the colours are correct.

Has anyone else experienced this? I haven’t changed anything that I know of in the software or hardware wise either.

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Photoshop CS2, Windows 2003
Dell Precision 470 w/ Nvidia Quadro FX 1400
Samsung SyncMaster 214T
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Stephen_M._Walker_II
Nov 10, 2006
I’ve come to the conclusion that it has something to do with the color profiles and proof setup feature, though I’ve never adjusted either of those things.

So now, I’m looking for a solution to reset Photoshop back to displaying files as it used to, not with the odd desaturation it is doing now.
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Bernie
Nov 11, 2006
Your conclusion is correct.

What are your colour settings?

You may also want to read up on colour management

here’s a place to start:

<http://www.gballard.net/psd.html>
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Stephen_M._Walker_II
Nov 11, 2006
I’m curious as to how my settings got off though. I’m leaning towards an accidental CTRL-Y pressing when going to hit CTRL-T, though I don’t understand why when proofing is turned off that it doesn’t display files as it once did.
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Bernie
Nov 11, 2006
That I can’t tell you <g>

So what about those colour settings?

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