Proof setup/Proof colors

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Robert_Deutsch
Jul 3, 2007
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I’m using CS3, and have found that the default RGB/8/Windows Proof Setup (jpeg) color looks wrong (too much saturation, too red/orange) on my monitor. Changine the Proof Setup to RGB/8/Monitor fixes the problem, but only for the photo that I’m working on. I have to change the Proof Setup color every time I load an image file. This is EXTREMELY annoying, and adds a step to the workflow that should be completely unnecessary. If I leave the Proof Color at RGB/8/Windows and do color correction based on what I see on the monitor, the color correction will be wrong. I don’t want to re-calibrate the monitor (a 19" DELL LCD); its rendering of color is just fine–unless viewing with that RGB/8/Windows setting. Does anyone know if CS3 can be set so that the default viewing becomes RGB/8/Monitor? It tried messing around with the color management setup, but ended up with a setting that gave me a warning message with every image. Any help would be much appreciated.

Bob
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chrisjbirchall
Jul 3, 2007
The whole point of "Proof Colours" is to preview how an image will look when printed or when converted to (say) CMYK.

If your images look wrong on other monitors you need to look to your monitor calibration and colour management workflow. For instance, are you converting to sRGB before saving images destined for non colour managed use such as web browsers?
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Andrei_Doubrovski
Jul 3, 2007
Bob,
Pull down "Edit > Color Settings" and choose "sRGB" for your default RGB color space (most probably, it’s currently set to "Adobe RGB").

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Myrna_Larson
Aug 4, 2007
Bob: Is this a Dell 1905FP? If so, note the following: after much searching on the Dell site, I found messages saying that the 1905fp.icm profile causes grays to be red-brown in Photoshop (but not in non-color managed apps) — exactly the problem I was having. The grays were brown with Proof Colors off. If I set Proof Setup to Monitor/Windows, it got even worse! OTOH, using Monitor RGB in Proof Setup gave me something very close to what I see on my inkjet printer.

I finally solved it by *deleting* the 1905FP.ICM file and associating the generic sRBC profile with the monitor. Now things look the same in Photoshop as they do elsewhere.

But I saw references the ICM file reappearing on reboot, so I may have to repeat this exercise. We’ll see…

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