10 Replies Latest reply: Nov 10, 2009 8:30 PM by Birdman3308 RSS

    Main monitor colors are bizarre in PS CS4 and Snow Leopard...

    tim3308 Community Member

      Also ColorEyes Display Pro, Snow Leopard, Eizo monitor, and PS CS4 are not playing well together. I I "dumb down" the calibrating software, I can get a result but that's another issue (sorta?)

       

      I have tried several software calibration attempts from different manufacturers (Spyder, Apple, Eizo), even Apple's own built in calibrator and despite this PS CS4 visually hates all the profiles I select on the Apple Cinema HD (both LUT and Matrix, both manually tuned and system controlled on the profiling).All of this despite having the notorious "Open GL" turned off. It just looks bad in CS4 (colors are noticeably off), and the menu bar is on that monitor. Weird. This does not happen in other apps tested w/ the color of the monitor.

       

      Any help? Thanks

        • 1. Re: Main monitor colors are bizarre in PS CS4 and Snow Leopard...
          Community Member

          Apparently Snow Leopard was released broken as other have reported similar problems.

          • 2. Re: Main monitor colors are bizarre in PS CS4 and Snow Leopard...
            tim3308 Community Member

            I'm not sure Apple quite sees it that way, as PS CS4 is the only app that is doing this. However, it sounds like the two are hashing things out(from employee comments here), and this would not be the first Mac OS update to "break" stuff to do w/ monitors. 10.5.7 semi screwed up my ColorEyes monitor profiles, CE did nothing at their end (as they rightly claimed: Apple went out and broke their own stuff w/ that update -- and well, they did.), and sat back until 10.5.8 came out and it quietly fixed the issue. So, since I was not having this issue w/ CS4  and Leopard... it is SLeopard... but like you said, there's a long punch list of stuff "broken".

            • 3. Re: Main monitor colors are bizarre in PS CS4 and Snow Leopard...
              Community Member

              If you really need your gear to work, adopting a new unpatched OS is very unwise. If you want to be on the cutting edge and do testing do it on a test system but don't break your production machine.

              • 4. butthatisbutthatis
                tim3308 Community Member

                I know, I know, sage advice, but that is so boring . Yes, I'm a professional illustrator and like/need things working, limping along though w/ this.

                • 5. Re: butthatisbutthatis
                  Community Member

                  Just reclone back your old system from the backup clone you made before installing the new unproven OS.

                  • 6. Re: butthatisbutthatis
                    Rick McCleary Community Member

                    Just reclone back your old system from the backup clone you made before installing the new unproven OS.

                    ... ah, yes, if only...

                     

                    (cue the Beach Boys)

                    • 7. Re: butthatisbutthatis
                      tim3308 Community Member

                      Hate to disappoint you Rick, But I do have a fully cloned backup(SuperDuper!) and then some. I am a back up fiend.

                      • 8. Re: butthatisbutthatis
                        Rick McCleary Community Member

                        Hate to disappoint you Rick...

                        Not disappointed at all!! Glad to hear it! The comment was more for general consumption. It seems that the so many users get caught with a dead drive and no back-up, so it's always worth underlining the value of basic best practices. And besides, I love the song...

                         

                        I am a back up fiend.

                        Yeah. me too. My wife always wonders why I keep that Halliburton case of back-up drives in the safe at the neighbors house!

                        • 9. Re: Main monitor colors are bizarre in PS CS4 and Snow Leopard...
                          Gary Politzer Community Member

                          I have reported a possibly related issue with my main display profile in the Adobe Color Management Forum and Apple Discussions.  It is not exactly the same issue, because you don't need Photoshop to see it.  I upgraded 2 machines to Snow Leopard, and only one has the problem.  Unfortunately, that one is my work machine.  Never mind...  I know, I know.  

                           

                          In the Color Management Forum, I posted a screen shot that shows the issue clearly.  http://forums.adobe.com/thread/488570?tstart=0

                           

                          It is very puzzling.  The same custom display profile appears differently in Snow Leopard, on the same hardware.  Also, I haven't yet been able to create a satisfactory profile in Snow Leopard using my Eye1 Display2 calibrator.  My work machine is an early 2008 Mac Pro with Apple 30" Cinema Display.  This setup looks quite different on the same profile as before.  My 2007 MacBook Pro 17" at home also had a custom profile, and looks exactly the same as before the Snow Leopard upgrade.  Go figure. 

                           

                          I booted back into the clone of my old Leopard system that I of course made before the upgrade, and the screen looks just fine there.  I got a screen capture of Apple's red, yellow & green window control buttons in Leopard, then displayed this screen shot in Preview in Snow Leopard, so you can see the vibrant & contrasty look from Leopard right next to the soft, dull, washed-out look in Snow Leopard.  It boggles my brain how Snowy can display the Leopard look in the image, but not in its own interface elements.

                           

                          Not many reports of this issue yet.