Colour matching problems photoshop to windows picture viewer.

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luke_peek
Dec 11, 2008
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Hi, Im having trouble colour matching photoshop to windows picture/fax viewer. The colours in windows (as many people have said before) are a lot more saturated.

Im using an EIZO CG222W and Photoshop CS2, colour balanced with an Eye-One Display.

The prints returns from photographic labs match what is displayed in photoshop perfectly though obviously not in windows.

I know windows is not colour balanced but I thought there would be little difference as we are also using another EIZO monitor and a IIYAMA monitor and these have no problems switching between photoshop and windows though they are both also colour balanced with the eye-one.

This applies to ALL windows applications… all colours in Internet explorer etc are over saturated as well.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Freeagent
Dec 11, 2008
That’s a wide-gamut monitor, capable of showing a wider range of colors than the traditional sRGB monitors. A wide-gamut monitor will always show oversaturated colors in a non-color-managed environment such as Windows or IE.

Think of it this way:

traditional monitor ((()))
wide-gamut monitor ((((()))))

Trust Photoshop. It reads the embedded profile and displays the correct colors – but Windows or IE just ignores the profile.

At the moment there’s no way around this except color management. Firefox is color managed, but that’s of limited help since most images on the web are untagged to begin with.

But there should be a way to restrict the monitor to an sRGB gamut, if this is a major problem.
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luke_peek
Dec 11, 2008
Thanks!

I did think of that as the reason, although I was a bit confused as like i said, we are also using another EIZO monitor which has a perfect balance between photoshop and windows yet I’ve checked all the setting between the two monitors which are the same.

It’s an older eizo so it may just be this new one has a wider gamut.

Thanks for your help. I’ll look into sRGB restrictions on windows and see if that works.
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Freeagent
Dec 11, 2008
sRGB restrictions on windows

On the monitor itself, not windows…
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luke_peek
Dec 11, 2008
Ah ok thanks, i’ll look into it! Cheers.

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