Problem with colours: seem different in PSP

[Imjinman]

Hi

I am using PSP4 and am having trouble with the colour working space.

I have calibrated my monitor, and created a new profile used by Windows 7. I then view RAW files or even TIFs and all look the same across programmes eg Picasa, Olympus Viewer 2, HP View Smart, Windows Screensaver, etc... except PSP4. The colours look way different.

I have selected this new profile in File/Color Management/Color Working Space. Is this right or should I choose "sRGB Color Working Space" instead in the drop down menu?

Thanks for your help- drives me nuts, and am now cnsidering another tool.

Thanks

BC

[thazooo]

Monitor profiles are for Monitors only. You're right to use sRGB, RGB, ...etc as your work space.

[MarkZ]

Imjinman:

I had a similar problem when I first loaded PSP, can't remember if it was X3 or X4. The solution was to empty the cache - I think that is what happens - by holding down the shift key while starting up PSP. I hope this works for you.

[df]

Hi

I am using PSP4 and am having trouble with the colour working space.

I have calibrated my monitor, and created a new profile used by Windows 7. I then view RAW files or even TIFs and all look the same across programmes eg Picasa, Olympus Viewer 2, HP View Smart, Windows Screensaver, etc... except PSP4. The colours look way different.

I have selected this new profile in File/Color Management/Color Working Space. Is this right or should I choose "sRGB Color Working Space" instead in the drop down menu?

Thanks for your help- drives me nuts, and am now cnsidering another tool.

Thanks

BC

The color working space is the work space that the image itself will be converted to to edit. i.e. if you have sRGB selected that file will be converted to sRGB from it's native color space. To use the monitor profile will really screw things up. Fortunately the fix is either resetting the workspace as MarkZ suggests (which resets the entire program and places things like palettes and toolbars back to places when the program was new) or just use a valid RGB color space that's close to the file that you're using the most. I use Adobe RGB but ProPhoto RGB would also work if you already have it or even another wide gamut color space. File/Color Management/Color Working Space and choosing the working space you want is the way to do that. sRGB is the "default" since that has the least issues for beginners. It's a more limited working space than aRGB or ProPhoto but all web browsers see it as well as all printing services and operating systems. Many other programs will view in the RGB colorspace that the files comes with (usually).

[Imjinman]

Many thanks for this help; seems like I screwed up.

Couple more questions though to get me sorted, in Win 7:

In Color Management/Advanced:

In "Windows Color Systems Default/device profile", what do I select? The new calibrated nonitor profile? r which one of the many sRGB profiles?
"/Viewing Conditions Profile?: "WCS profile for ICS viewing conditions" ? or "WCS profile for sRGB viewing conditions"

Thank you!

[thazooo]

I can only comment on Vista, perhaps a Win 7 user can explain that OS.
Your calibrator and software created a monitor profile and during this process should have loaded it into LUT for the video card.
You can see this during boot up, your desktop will be one color range and when the calibration starts this will change to the calibration
you created. I've never touched Vista color management, instead I let all my programs do the Color Management. Windows management
is weird at best.