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Color Management

Feb 4, 2010 11:18 AM

My color management seems to have gone crazy. I have a Dell 2005FPW monitor, and I usually have the RGB setting in color settings/working spaces/RGB set to: 'monitor RGB - Dell 2005FPW Color Profile. Without me changing anything, white now appears yellow on my screen, even though when I look in color picker and select white, the numbers are correct - 255,255,255 and #ffffff. I have tried changing to other settings but white still looks yellow, although white appears white when I print.

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  • gator soup
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    1. gator soup,
    Feb 4, 2010 2:29 PM   in reply to ashik777
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    >> I usually have the RGB setting in color settings/working spaces/RGB set to: 'monitor RGB

     

    That is never recommended here — try setting a device independent Working Space like "sRGB 2.1..." as your Working RGB (until you better know what you are doing).

     

    >> white now appears yellow on my screen, even though when I look in color picker and select white, the numbers are correct - 255,255,255

     

    That is a sure sign of a bad monitor profile in Photoshop, you need to reprofile your monitor and get it engaged in System Preferences> Displays> Color> Display Profile (or Windows equivelent) —  Photoshop/Adoe apps will pick it up from there for color-management purposes.

     

    >> I have tried changing to other settings but white still looks yellow

     

    I don't know what that means, 'whites appear yellow' is a FAQ...

     

    Try these settings:

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    2. ashik777,
    Feb 5, 2010 9:34 AM   in reply to ashik777
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    Thanks, but I have tried those settings. White is the only color that is off - it appears yellow and only within photoshop - white is white when photoshop is not running.

     
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  • Black Drop
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    3. Black Drop,
    Jun 4, 2011 9:38 PM   in reply to ashik777
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    I am experiencing the same problem, and Dude, I also got a Dell. Do you think this a software or hardware malfunction?

     
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    4. TerraAustralis,
    Jun 14, 2011 11:20 AM   in reply to ashik777
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    Sounds like you need to calibrate your monitor. I have a Dell 2007WFP and all of the setting options in the onscreen menu are rubbish. When I recalibrated the Dell I got a great result. For more on colour set up in Adobe Suite

     

    see: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/775255?tstart=0

     
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