Blue colour cast in PS that is not in LR?

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I have been working on a studio product shot which when viewed in Lightroom was the correct colour but when sent to CS6 had a strong blue colour cast even when converted to B&W. Both were in Prophoto colour profile which is something I have used for years since first reading martin Evening's books and never had a problem, although less likely in Landscape I suppose, I am new to product photography and studio lighting but I was racking my brain and trying to think of a way round it when I tried converting to ARGB in CS6.
This completely solved the problem.
However I am puzzled as to why this might be, any ideas?
 
It could be a lot of things, after saving from photoshop does it sill have the colour cast?
 
Have a look at your colour settings for importing files. is there anything odd there, especially in the import option. It couldbe profile mismatch. I have all the warnings ticked so I know if something is wrong and my preferred colour space is ProPhoto and my policies are to preserve embedded profiles. I switch from Lightroom to Photoshop without any problems

You might want to look under the additional options to see what rendering intent you are using. Mines set to Perceptual
 
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What are you viewing the saved pictures with? It sounds like whatever your viewing with doesn't recognise prophoto colourspace.
 
The Pro Photo colourspace has many problems associated with it. It is a very wide gamut profile - so much so that no existing display device cannot actually display the range of colours in contains. As such, it's fairly hard to predict what will happen if it is badly converted to other colourspaces. Despite what Mr Evening says about it, there is almost no advantage in its use, and unless you really know what you are doing with it, can lead to more problems than it solves. The main reason I advocate not using it, is simply because no device you have can actually display it correctly.

Having said that, I don't think this is your problem. It's almost certainly a colour profiling mismatch between LR and Photoshop. What are your colour conversion policies set to in Photoshop?

If you wish to continue using Pro Photo, then you need Photoshop set up like this...

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Pay particular attention to the tick boxes that dictate what happens when you have a profile mismatch or missing profile.

Another possible reason is you have calibrated your monitor and generated a V4.0 ICC profile, and you're on a Windows based machine. If so, recalibrate, but set your calibration software to generate a V2.0 ICC profile.

There's no reason whatsoever why you'd need to use ARGB. It is nothing to do with studio lights or it would just be as wrong in LR. If it's correct in LR, but incorrect in PS, then it can only be how PS is handling the embedded colour profile. Ensure ProPhoto RGB is your default working space.

As for black and white, you can still get odd colour casts with incorrect profile management, if it's still an RGB file. By B&W you probably mean you've just removed the colour, but it's still an RGB file. A true black and white image would be grey scale.
 
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Thank you David
It turned out my working space was set to sRGB (don't ask me how or why I would never have done that deliberatley) as I set it as recommended by ME on first installing which is Prophoto, so I guess that was the issue. Hopefully sorted now.
Thanks all for helpful posts and David for going the extra mile, I will check my monitor calibration again though.

Regards
Steve
 
Thank you David
It turned out my working space was set to sRGB (don't ask me how or why I would never have done that deliberatley) as I set it as recommended by ME on first installing which is Prophoto, so I guess that was the issue. Hopefully sorted now.
Thanks all for helpful posts and David for going the extra mile, I will check my monitor calibration again though.

Regards
Steve


No problem, glad it's sorted. Make sure your monitor calibration is also set as default profile in windows,

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control panel/display/screen resolution/advanced settings... then color management tab....
 
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