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ChrisDeKitchen
04-23-2010, 03:23 PM
Hey guys, I'm having trouble with photoshop looking very different on my dual monitor setup. I was about to color correct an image when I ran into this problem. I've also experienced it at work.

If I open an image in Photoshop (CS4), any image, and then move it over to my second monitor you can clearly see a shift in colors and brightness when you drop the image on that monitor. While holding and dragging the image everything looks fine. It's like it applies the color settings of that monitor as a multiply or something on top of the image once you drop it.

To help clarify I put the window in between the two monitors and took a screenshot. And you can clearly see how the image has different color values on the two monitors. But also note that the actual viewport windows and desktop all looks the same, even though they are also overlapping two monitors.

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This tells me that there's something fishy going on with Photoshop color profiles or something? A bug? I have a Radeon 5770gfx card but use Nvidia at work and have the same issue there.

Anyone know how to correct this?
hvanderwegen
04-23-2010, 11:32 PM
First, are you using hardware colour calibration of sorts? And I believe it might be due to hardware acceleration in CS4. Try deactivating the hardware acceleration.
ChrisDeKitchen
04-24-2010, 11:39 AM
I don't think I had hardware acceleration enabled, I enabled it now but saw no difference in how it looks on the second monitor. I tried changing about every option in the color management settings and while I can see change on the second monitor it still displays it wrongly in relation to the first monitor. Moving the same picture in between the monitors using windows standard image viewer displays them correctly, I should add.

To me it feels like Photoshop is loading the color profle/settings for the first monitor and applying it to the second monitor as well. This could explain why the picture is getting a blue-ish hue since my primary monitor has a slightly yellowish tint that I've been trying to correct by tweaking it more towards blue.

But it feels like this should be a pretty common problem in that case, maybe it's mostly visible om monitors that are far away from eachother in color-range.

Anyone else experienced this?
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