[xperegrine]

Hey -- I'm having the same problem as NOYB had with photoshop. It doesn't look like the problem was resolved in that thread.

I recently re-installed photoshop/video card drivers/ did a re-format.

Opened a file in MS paint and windows picture viewer and the colors are beautiful, perfect.

But -- when I open the file in Photoshop and an Arcsoft photo program, (under my monitor workspace profile) the blacks are saturated in the green range. This is a problem with every single photo I open now. If I try RGB, everything is faded.

I tried all of the color workspace settings, RGB, monitor, etc, applied almost all of the profiles in preview, and nothing looks right. My monitor is calibrated - the photo here was edited to my preference in photoshop before and now it's all wrong. This is driving me crazy.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/smitten...05955/sizes/o/


Tried: two different graphics cards, calibrating monitor, updating drivers, changing color profile settings....

[Noyb]

I wasn't aware that I had a problem with Photoshop ... Or remember ???


Other than a similar color problem when installed in Windows 7.
I solved it by choosing a different color profile.

I don't remember what my W7 settings are.
One advantage of getting older .. I don't have to watch as many repeats on TV anymore.
I just wish the commercials weren't so long.

And Welcome to the TSG Forum

[slipe]

This is what I got when I cranked up the saturation. Evidently Paint converted to grayscale and you might be comparing apples to oranges. There doesn’t seem to be a way to set Paint to not do that.

Irfanview is a great little utility freeware viewer at www.irfanview.com It won’t convert to grayscale and you can compare better.

In Photoshop select Color Settings, open the advanced portion and post a screenshot. Maybe someone smarter than I am can figure out why the color isn’t right. A grayscale image like that should look fine with RGB selected as your mode.

[xperegrine]

Greyscale isn't the problem, it happens with ALL images.

I took some more screenshots.

Color profile settings screenshot: (monitor settings)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/smitten...35790/sizes/o/
Color profile settings screenshot: (adobe RGB)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/smitten...43042/sizes/o/

Color picker + MSpaint screenshot: (the blacks look green on the color picker too)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/smitten...82041/sizes/o/

[xperegrine]

Also, it's not just paint, all windows photo viewing products work, the windows explorer previes, -- even opening it in MS word, it looks fine.

[slipe]

In the color management policies try either preserve embedded profile or convert to working RGB under RGB. If you want to leave it “off” you would probably do better with sRGB.

You don’t seem to think that the first image is grayscale and the second two are RGB is significant. Might not be. But I still think you are comparing apples to oranges.