Color Management in recently instaled Photoshop CS5

[Edalongthepacific]

On my PC/Windows 7, Photoshop CS5 was not producing color accurate output files until I switched the Color Settings/Working Spaces/RGB: to the RGB Working Space defined by Spyder2PRO. Usually I select Adobe RGB (1998) for this space or ProPhoto RGB. Did I do the proper thing or do I need to recalibrate after installing CS5?

[digitaldog]

You never want to select the display profile as your RGB working space. So yes, something isn’t kosher here.

[shewhorn]

To expand on what Andrew said, no you should not need to recalibrate. If your profile is loaded, then Photoshop will use it.

If you select color settings and click on the pull down for RGB working space, there should be an entry for "Monitor RGB". Photoshop will put the name of your currently loaded profile next to that. If you see something other than the name of your currently loaded profile (or what you think is your currently loaded profile) then you need to address that problem first (and just for clarification, do not select monitor RGB as your working space).

Cheers, Joe

[Edalongthepacific]

Something is very wrong here. Photoshop CS5 is not using the designated color space upon output to jpg. or tiff. My installed CS4 has no such issues.

[Edalongthepacific]

The RBG does reveal the proper Spyder2PRO profile but the color space CS5 is using is desaturated.

[Chris_Brown]

What monitor are you using?
What monitor profiling software are you using?

I ask because when using a monitor such as the NEC PA241w with its Spectravision software, the display profile must be selected using the Spectravision software, not the system preferences.

[Edalongthepacific]

I have an Apple 30" and use Spyder2PRO. I have never seen this before. CS5 outputs a RGB drawing without any color shift or loss but JPG or TIFF are desaturated. I have not yet figured it out.

[digitaldog]

You have all the policies set to Preserve in you Color Settings?

[Edalongthepacific]

Yes. Everything looks fine but the JPGs and TIFFs produced are seriously desaturated. The JPG preview looks good but color is lost when th eproduced images are opened by any device other than CS5.

[Chris_Brown]

In PS preferences, there's a setting to "desaturate monitor colors by xx%". Do you have this checked?

[Edalongthepacific]

These are left unchecked. When I open a photo in CS5 it looks fine, strong colors. When I open th esame document in Word, for example, it is desaturated significantly. I think I will have to run Spyder2PRO again. There must be something telling CS5 to ignore the color correction profile that existed before it was installed.

[Edalongthepacific]

Apparently issues I had with accurate color were related to conversions from the Pro Photo Color Space when I switched to Adobe 1998 all conversion issues ended.

[gianfini]

Convert (not assign) your profile to sRGB. Save as separate file and then openagain in WORD or other app which are not color profile aware