Color Management problem. (I have read the stickied links).


#1

Hello all,
I’ve read the sticky on color management, and the detailed articles linked to from there. While I think I understood much of it, and I initially thought it would fix my problem, I am becoming increasingly confused as to whether or not I have a problem at all…, but I’m pretty sure I do… Please help :slight_smile:

  Alright, so last month I invested in a [b]Spyder3Pro[/b] to use with my [b]Macbook Pro[/b]. I had it calibrated (and just re-calibrated) to [b]2.2[/b], [b]6500K[/b], [b]laptop[/b], [b]gray balanced calibration on[/b], [b]ambient light compensation off[/b]. Photoshop CM is set to [b]North America General Purpose 2[/b].

The following is a summary of what overall hue I see now when working with a particular image:

Tagged sRBG:
Photoshop: Purple
Photoshop (proofing monitor RGB): Blue
Firefox (no CM): Blue
Safari (CM): Purple

Untagged:

Photoshop: Purple
Photoshop (proofing monitor RGB): Blue
Firefox (no CM): Blue
Safari (CM): Blue

On my old pc, where I made the image, both versions looked almost identical and Blue in photoshop as well as web browsers.

It appears that to have a consistent workflow, I need to work without tags while proofing my monitor’s RBG in photoshop. This seems contrary to everything I’ve read in those stickied links. Any help or suggestions?

But it worked on my old pc which wasn’t even calibrated as well as this one. I have no idea how to fix this. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Adam


#2

Addition: if I were to always just work with Monitor RBG soft proofing on, the CMYK proofing would still look purple and couldn’t really be used.


#3

It can be your pc are for the right colors.I has that same problem with a old pc. I fix it with a upgrade from the colrchart in the pc. I took the graphiccard out and put a new one in with more memory and a 3D solution and that do a hole lot.
EVGA GeForce 9500 GT 1GB DDR2 128-bit PCI-E 2.0 DirectX 10 Video Card - 01G-P3-N959-TR

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i hope that you help


#4

Thanks for the reply! Unfortunately, I don’t think that will work in my case. I’m using an apple laptop, so I don’t think replacing the graphics card will be an option. Its a pretty new machine, so I really can’t figure out what the problem is. Adobe is configured properly, and Spyder3Pro is handling calibration, so I’m out of ideas. I’ll post a screen later showing what I see with the two images side by side.


#5

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