9 Replies Latest reply: May 1, 2014 9:29 AM by rtl300 RSS

    How can I check photoshop is giving correct colour screen display ?

    Envirographics Community Member

      Hi,

       

      I photograph a bright red car in raw mode on a digital slr (Canon 20D) set to Adobe rgb 1998  and view it in BreezeBrowser and it looks just as I remember it. I open it into Pshop CS5 extended (which is set to Adobe rgb1998, Europe ISO Coated Fogra27, (as I am UK and this is what a calibration company set our works proofer to)  gray gamma 2.2 dot gain 20% and its become a little desaturated. Sampling it and comparing screens and colours with BreezeBrowser its definitley less red, a bit more orangey red instead. I need to up saturation to return the red, both in RAW converter and also after image opened if not done so beforehand in RAW converter.

       

      Colours just look muted.

       

      What tests can I carry out to find out what is going on ?

       

      Perhaps create a rgb 255 0 0 image in a way not influenced by photoshop and photo the monitor, then open this in photoshop and sample it. However that would be influenced by the exposure of the camera. Maybe I need to create a kodak grey card type image and establish correct exposure for the monitor brightness first. so what would that be as rgb ?

       

      Any other ideas ?

       

      I know though that Pshop is displaying duller. Once upon a time we had Adobe gamma and one would go through the calibration wizard to set up photoshop having already set up the monitor.

       

      What do we have to do after installing CS5 extended or CS4 to ensure Pshops display is correct ?

       

      I have Adobe gamma in the control panel, Is this something we still have to do in CS5, I wonder if its there because I still have Pshop 7 installed which used that wizard.

       

      XP pro is my OS.

       

      Envirographics