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Hi,
I used Photoshop 7 for a very long time, until about a month ago, when I finally upgraded to CS3. I started noticing slight differences in the way colors look. Generally, my photos just look more grainy — kind of like what happens when you do a crappy job of adjusting the "contrast" settings.
So I wasn’t sure at first if the problem was Photoshop, or maybe one of the exposure/ISO settings on my camera. So I tried loading my images in IrfanView (just a freeware image viewer), and they look like I expected them to look — like they used to look in Photoshop 7. To verify, I used the color sampler tool in both Photoshop CS3 and Irfanview, and sure enough, the colors are actually different. In CS3, the darks are slightly darker and the lights are slightly lighter. The net result is an ugly, grainy mess, while Irfanview shows a nice, smooth image.
So what is this new "suck mode" in CS3 and how do I turn it off? I played around with the "Color Settings" in the Edit menu, but nothing made much difference. But I don’t really know what I’m doing in there, so who knows…
Thanks.
I used Photoshop 7 for a very long time, until about a month ago, when I finally upgraded to CS3. I started noticing slight differences in the way colors look. Generally, my photos just look more grainy — kind of like what happens when you do a crappy job of adjusting the "contrast" settings.
So I wasn’t sure at first if the problem was Photoshop, or maybe one of the exposure/ISO settings on my camera. So I tried loading my images in IrfanView (just a freeware image viewer), and they look like I expected them to look — like they used to look in Photoshop 7. To verify, I used the color sampler tool in both Photoshop CS3 and Irfanview, and sure enough, the colors are actually different. In CS3, the darks are slightly darker and the lights are slightly lighter. The net result is an ugly, grainy mess, while Irfanview shows a nice, smooth image.
So what is this new "suck mode" in CS3 and how do I turn it off? I played around with the "Color Settings" in the Edit menu, but nothing made much difference. But I don’t really know what I’m doing in there, so who knows…
Thanks.
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