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mgs5053

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 4:49 pm    Post subject: Photoshop Darkening all Images Reply with quote

My photoshop has been doing this odd thing lately... when I open up a saved photograph in Photoshop it is as if someone cranked a darkness slider up, the color is like half as vibrant as it was before.

When I'm done editing and save, if I open it in say Microsoft office picture manager the color is fine, it's just photoshop that is making my color look wayyyyyy off. I couldn't attach more than one image so I uploaded the samples to photobucket.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v256/Stolly_50/redeyeafter.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v256/Stolly_50/redeyedark.png

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Damo77

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 6:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What are your PS Color Settings? They should be "North America General Purpose 2", unless you have very good reason to change.

Apart from that, it sounds like a monitor profile issue. How is your monitor calibrated, if at all?

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mgs5053

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 6:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

They are. For some reason, the only way that it looks correct is if I set that setting to Monitor
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 6:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

And calibration?
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mgs5053

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 7:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

All the windows stuff is set to System Default.

I do have a second monitor plugged in... and I don't recall ever having issues with this until I had a second monitor.

But again, everything is set on defaults on that one as well. Not sure why that would be changing anything.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 7:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maybe you should start by resetting the PS preferences? I think you do it by holding down Ctrl Alt Shift while starting, or something like that. Google will tell you.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 2:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sounds obvious but try removing the monitors one by one and see if the colour improves on each if so it's your G/card or drivers...
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 4:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I would like to see a screen shot of your preferences/ colour management. Can't really shoot at the stars..
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 12:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You should try uninstalling and reinstalling PS. What version are you using?
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