Radical Color Changes in Word and Publisher Preview

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jerry_sitrin
Aug 6, 2008
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Hello
This happens only when I use an image that was taken with my new Nikon Digital Camera in jpeg mode. I am using Photoshop 6 running in microsoft xp. I can do some minor work on the image in photoshop and print the picture from photoshop and the outcome is fine. If however, I insert the same image in Word or Publisher, when I do a print preview and a subsequent print of the image , the colors get changed radically. Does anyone have any idea what is going on? Again, this only happens with images taken from a particular camera. All other images from other cameras, work fine. Thanks…
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Jim
Aug 6, 2008
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Hello
This happens only when I use an image that was taken with my new Nikon Digital Camera in jpeg mode. I am using Photoshop 6 running in microsoft xp. I can do some minor work on the image in photoshop and print the picture from photoshop and the outcome is fine. If however, I insert the same image in Word or Publisher, when I do a print preview and a subsequent print of the image , the colors get changed radically. Does anyone have any idea what is going on? Again, this only happens with images taken from a particular camera. All other images from other cameras, work fine. Thanks…

Word is not color managed. Publisher may not be either. This is the root cause of your problem.
I don’t have this problem with Word though so I can’t go much further. I have images from color slides, color negatives, and my Nikon D70. Jim
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Freeagent
Aug 6, 2008
It’s a color management issue.

this only happens with images taken from a particular camera. All other images from other cameras, work fine

I suspect that camera uses Adobe RGB (1998) as the output color profile, while the others use sRGB.

Either way, what you see in Photoshop is the correct view. The other apps are not color managed and are not able to display the Adobe RGB profiled images correctly.
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Freeagent
Aug 6, 2008
To expand a little: sRGB was intentionally made to closely resemble a non-color managed environment. For that reason, it’s always a "safe" choice.

Using Adobe RGB is risky unless you know what you’re doing (in which case it’s much better) so I think you should probably change that.
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Bob Levine
Aug 6, 2008
I am using Photoshop 6 running in microsoft xp.

Photoshop 6 or Elements 6?

Bob
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jerry_sitrin
Aug 6, 2008
Thanks Freeagent. I believe I can select sRGB in camera menu.. Left my manual at my daughters, so will not try tonight, but I understand what you are saying..
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jerry_sitrin
Aug 6, 2008
Photoshop 6
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jerry_sitrin
Aug 6, 2008
Freeagent. I changed my camera, ran a test, and it came out perfect. You were right on target. Thanks again.
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Freeagent
Aug 6, 2008
Glad to hear that 🙂
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jerry_sitrin
Aug 7, 2008
Freeagent

Do you know of a way to convert a RGB image to an sRGB image? Possibly within Photoshop?
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dave_milbut
Aug 7, 2008
image> mode> convert to profile
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John Joslin
Aug 7, 2008
In current versions it’s Edit > Convert to Profile…

Was it different in Version 6?
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jerry_sitrin
Aug 7, 2008
John Joslin

In 6 it is Edit > mode > Convert to Profile…
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Freeagent
Aug 7, 2008
Jerry,

You seem to be in the right place. You won’t see any difference to the image in Photoshop, but it will now display correctly in other applications as well (and the web).

Good thing you asked, btw, because I forgot to mention this in my initial answer. The very fact that you asked shows that you have a good basic understanding of what’s going on.
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dave_milbut
Aug 7, 2008
In current versions it’s Edit > Convert to Profile…

sorry, i was looking at version 7 (installed on my laptop).

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