Color Problems

[3d Nirvana]

help! im having a lot of troubles with color on my computer here. I open a photo in photoshop camera raw, adjust the colors and save as a jpg. but the colors are alllll messed up! It looks different in windows picture viewer, internet explorer, and photoshop. In photoshop everything is more red, in windows picture viewer everything is a little brighter and more red, in internet explorer/paint everything is lighter and greener.

Every program i open it in displays the colors differently. Its not my computer either, its the file. I sent it to a friend, and it looked different in the different programs on her computer too.

i attached a example of what im seeing (its a picture of my monitor from my cell phone, my print screen button isnt working, and i didnt feel like restarting). all three images are the same file, but opened in ie photoshop and picture viewer. My guess is it's something to do with color profiles in photoshop, but i have no clue how to fix it. someone please help me, i cant publish any work now because after i set the whitebalance and everything to exactly what i want, its totally different when i put it online.

The picture is really bad quality, but u guys can still see how different the pictures look in the different programs.

[Seb Hughes]

Can you not try and recalibrate the colours via the grahpics card interface. Also make sure your using the right colour profile in PS.

[3d Nirvana]

how do i know which colorprofile is the "right" one?

and also, wouldnt graphics card settings change the way everything looks? instead of how things look in different programs?

[Theros]

how do i know which colorprofile is the "right" one?

and also, wouldnt graphics card settings change the way everything looks? instead of how things look in different programs?

That's odd... If the problem was with the GPU, then everything would be washed out or in a certain color, not different ones for different applications... The best I can say is that maybe each application is using different color schemes? IE, I didn't even know Photoshop had a different default color profile when using the Save For Web feature... Before, I'd just do it, and the colors would be off a bit until I set it to my monitor's scheme.

[3d Nirvana]

mm, i dunno, i didnt think programs could have different color schemes... any idea how to check? lol, this is baffling me. :stare:

[Theros]

mm, i dunno, i didnt think programs could have different color schemes... any idea how to check? lol, this is baffling me. :stare:

I don't know.. In photoshop there's a bunch of options under the *I think its* Color tab.... Also, like I said when exporting pictures, make sure your saving them under your monitor's scheme not photoshops... There's an Arrow like button towards the top-right which allows to trigger the color schemes on and off...

[3d Nirvana]

I FIGURED IT OUT! YES! omg finally! i couldnt stand it anymore, i would have to go save each picture like 3 times to try to make it look the way i want on everyone else's computers. And still the colors wouldnt be perfect. It made it really hard to put pictures online.

annnnyway, the problem was with the samsung monitors. It sounds like lots of people were having this problem samsungs also (according to google). The "Samsung Natural Color Pro" profile was corrupted i guess, but Photoshop and other programs used it even though i told them not to. I deleted the profile off my machine and all the colors work flawlessly in every program now. I'm sooo happy! :D

so yeah, anyone having the same problem, just delete the samsung profile from the machine

[Theros]

I FIGURED IT OUT! YES! omg finally! i couldnt stand it anymore, i would have to go save each picture like 3 times to try to make it look the way i want on everyone else's computers. And still the colors wouldnt be perfect. It made it really hard to put pictures online.

annnnyway, the problem was with the samsung monitors. It sounds like lots of people were having this problem samsungs also (according to google). The "Samsung Natural Color Pro" profile was corrupted i guess, but Photoshop and other programs used it even though i told them not to. I deleted the profile off my machine and all the colors work flawlessly in every program now. I'm sooo happy! :D

so yeah, anyone having the same problem, just delete the samsung profile from the machine

What kinda Samsung monitor do you have? I've got one of those Syncmasters and I'm wondering if I have the same problem? So far after changing my photoshop settings it has been okay..but one can never be too sure.

[3d Nirvana]

i have the 24 inch one... but from what i read from other people, its affects just about everyone with a samsung LCD. For some the color changes are barely noticeable, for others (like me) the whites turn to yellow in some programs (like photoshop).

using the photoshop settings i was able to make it so it usually turned out about what i wanted it to be... but it was never perfect, and setting the color settings every time i opened a picture sucked.

[Theros]

i have the 24 inch one... but from what i read from other people, its affects just about everyone with a samsung LCD. For some the color changes are barely noticeable, for others (like me) the whites turn to yellow in some programs (like photoshop).

using the photoshop settings i was able to make it so it usually turned out about what i wanted it to be... but it was never perfect, and setting the color settings every time i opened a picture sucked.

Gotcha. I think I got that error once with Photoshop about the invalid Samsung color profile, I think I got PS to recompile it for me...Then it went away? I guess its fixed hopefully.

[3d Nirvana]

cool...i didn't see a option to recompile it, and it used it anyway regardless of pressing ignore or use anyway when the error came up. oh well. everythings working now, so im never touching color profiles again :trout:

[OrcusDei]

i have the 24 inch one... but from what i read from other people, its affects just about everyone with a samsung LCD. For some the color changes are barely noticeable, for others (like me) the whites turn to yellow in some programs (like photoshop).

using the photoshop settings i was able to make it so it usually turned out about what i wanted it to be... but it was never perfect, and setting the color settings every time i opened a picture sucked.

Its true that every program shows same colors differently. Problem is connected also with your LCD cause every LCD has different potential and sometimes the color spectrum is not as full as for example on CRT,(imagine it like color banding problem) this cause that colors can be rounded to the next closest color (closest by monitors suggestions, not by human eye). Because of this, you can have two almost simillar colors but shown a lot differently:D And try to never believe LCDs, because they can show what sometimes cant be seen and vice-versa. Also depending on angle you are looking on it and many many other things.


btw and sure check the color profile in ps*giggle*

[3d Nirvana]

haha i know that different monitors will show colors a little differently... but this was different programs on the SAME monitor... and the differences wernt always subtle either :P

[OrcusDei]

thats what i said, its not only problem of monitor, but programs too.. and your monitor can just adjust this