CS3 colour problem

ST Colin

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Hi all,

I have a problem with CS3. Basically, all my photos are opening with a very orange/red cast to them. When I view them in DPP, for instance, they are fine. Then when I transfer it to photoshop, this cast appears. The only way I can work with the colours looking the same in CS3 as in DPP, is to select View/Proof Set up/Monitor RGB. Now, my images open as 16/bit images, but when I go to save, and I select 8/bit channel, it goes back to this colour cast. Now, when I then save my image as a JPEG, they will look fine when viewed outside of CS3.

My brain is fried trying to fix this, anyone got any ideas? I don't really understand colour management etc

Thanks a lot

Colin
 
Hi Colin,

Can you do a quick test to see if we can get to the bottom of this as quickly as possible.
1. Find a colourful jpeg in your web browser
2. Either drag it into photoshop or save/open
3. In Photoshop got to Edit>Assign Profle....Profile:sRGB IEC61966-2.1
4. If the photoshop image still has a red shift compared to the web then change your monitors ICC profile to Apple RGB. In Vista this is under Control Panal>Color Management - not sure about other OS methods. Reboot and try again.

Let me know how you get on. - Kappa
 
Just thought I would bump this thread. Still having horrible colour issues, and really have no idea how to sort it. Kappa, I tried your method, nothing changed. Thanks for the help.

Colin
 
Has it always done this since it was installed or has it just started playing up and worked fine before?
 
I think the problem may be DPP is using a different monitor profile to Photoshop. By default Photoshop selects the system profile but DPP defaults to sRGB unless you change it.

Check Preferences > Colour management. The monitor profile options are about half way down. If you select System Profile and use the same profile as Photoshop uses you should get a better match.

Bear in mind though that DPP reads the Picture Styles from the camera and applies these to the image , whereas Photoshop doesn't , so there will still be some slight differences. If you want DPP to match Photoshop you need to opt for a Neutral style.
 
Thanks for the replies. The problem only appeared a couple of months back.

Cheers

Colin
 
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