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wurdlock
Joined: 25 Sep 2005
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 Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 12:46 pm Post subject: Images in photoshop are brighter than in Windows |
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Hello!
I have Photoshop CS and when I open images they become ~10% brighter than in Windows. I'd like images in Photoshop to look the same as in Windows (IE, Imaging viewer, etc). Can somebody help?
Thanks,
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Maelstrom
Joined: 22 Sep 2005
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Location: Vancouver BC
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This is usually a colour settings problem. Go to edit -> colour settings...
I don't know much about the details, but for web I find that choosing 'Monitor RGB' usually gives me identical output from Photoshop/ImageReady to what I'm seeing in other apps. |
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cbadland
Joined: 19 Jan 2005
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First, run Adobe Gamma. If your work is ONLY for web, try choosing sRGB or Monitor as your working color space. Otherwise a larger color space, such as AdobeRGB, would be a better choice. Just remember then to convert back to sRGB before saving for Web.
see this Adobe article on running Adobe Gamma:
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/321608.html |
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wurdlock
Joined: 25 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 12:08 am Post subject: |
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Thank you for your answer. I used Adobe Gamma but I still have the same problem: the brighness is diffrent in Photoshop and in Windows. I use sRGB colors in Edit->Color settings.
Can you please explain what it does. Does is change what I see in Photoshop or does it change what I see on my monitor? Also right click desktop->Properties has Monitor properties->profiles. I saved profile in Adobe Gamma. Does it make sense to set windows monitor profile to that .CPL?
Thanks,
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cbadland
Joined: 19 Jan 2005
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Photoshop is a color managed app, Windows OS is not. You may get images to look more similar by setting your working space to the monitor profile. But I would not recommend that if you plan to output your images anywhere besides the web.
Color management is hard to explain in full in the forum. Here is a link to a 1.8 MB pdf article from a book (Photoshop for Photographers) by Martin Evening. It is pretty thorough.
http://www.photoshopforphotographers.com/download/PSCS_colmanage.pdf |
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