Vista and Photoshop Colour Management - Help Needed Please

[The_Bulb]

I am going round the bend with my new monitor and could do with some help from anyone on here who knows about colour management, particularly in Windows Vista, Photoshop etc. etc.

I've got a new machine with Vista and a shiny new 24" dell ultra sharp monitor which I have calibrated using a spyder 3 pro. I have now having loads of problems with images looking different in different software programmes, particularly with the levels of saturation. I open an image in photoshop, which looks different to windows photogallery and internet explorer.

I have been having a play and have started to set all colour profiles I can to the profile Dell 24" monitor that was created when I calibrated the screen???? Is this right? So therefore I have gone into photoshop, edit/ colour setting/ and changed the RGB working space to my dell monitor profile and then I am editing the photo to make sure it is has the correct RGB colour working space assigned to it???

Any help and guidance would be appreciated muchly!!!!!

 

[kman]

I just picked up a Dell ultrasharp 24" (u2410) just yesterday so would be interested to know this as well. I've set Vista color management to the Dell supplied profile. CS4 picked up the change and then warned me about the profile being incomplete or something but I selected "use anyway".

I haven't yet looked carefully at the colour changes between CS4 and other non-managed apps (like the browsers) but you would expect browsers to not show the same range of colors (someone correct me if im wrong). I usually set Cs4 to use srgb, as are my camera raw pics.

If you got the same monitor as me I noticed on the monitor's on screen menu there are color presets. the default is set to "standard" but there are options to set to Adobe RGB and srgb so maybe changing these presets might help?

 

[Lifeboat Man]

Use Google to solve this issue... their are loads of helpful links on line! If I have time in the next few days I will post a few direct links as I too went through this problem months ago But now resolved

 

[OlyPaul]

Ok photoshop is colour managed which means it is aware of embeded profiles in images and adjusts the colours accordingly for display in Photoshop.

Windows Photo gallery and internet explorer are not colour managed and will display your images in your monitors colour space (in this case the spyder profile) regardless of the embeded profile in the image, hence the difference when veiwing between a colur aware application and a none colour aware one.

If you were to change your photo shop colour setting to " No Colour Managment" (not a good idea) they would look the same in all of them as they would all be using the monitor profile to display images with no colour managment...hope that helps.

 

[clotheyes]

I have the same U2410 and was initially having problems using the Dell supplied profile (running Windows 7 - but the same colour management as Vista) with Lightroom having a green cast of varying degrees when using the various monitor presets. Once I changed the display to use the Adobe RGB setting on the monitor and the same on windows, I have lovely colour matched pictures that show the same in lightroom as out of my printer.