[stubar]

Hi, I am new here - and new to photoshop. I hope someone can offer some help and advice

I have photoshop working fine and am learning new things each day, but I have a problem with the color profile. If I copy and image from web or wherever and past it into photoshop, i get the image not in its original settings.

First problem I had was the whites being beige, I managed to rectify this by changing my color profile ( I think !). Now I get (i think) brightness and contrast misrepresented. I have calibrated my samsung monitor twice and created new profiles and I still have the same problem.

What is the easiest and best way to get photoshop to display an image exactly the same as it is in the clipboard? If I paste the same image into MSPaint I get the image perfectly. Obviously MSPaint is slightly less powerful than photoshop so this is not my perfect solution!!! lol

Any help is VERY much appreciated as I am unable to start working with my own graphics and making them colorful and alive

[jerryb]

hi,
not sure how much i can help... i am a novice but i will try...

first always a good idea to mention what photoshop version your using... many times that can effect the replies...

what you might look at is under the edit menu>color settings ....
you might want to verify that the the managment polices is set to "preserve embedded profiles" and also the the rgb is set to sRGB ...

with those setting I generally don't have problem with colors...

hope that helps

[stubar]

thanks so much for the reply jerry.

I am using CS3.

With my monitor profile selected in : edit menu>color settings, PS does not give me the option to preserve embedded profiles. the checkbox will not check

If I set to sRGB instead of my monitors profile then I get the initial problem of my whites being yellow/beige.

can i post screenshots with html in here?

[jerryb]

hi,
That what i mean about different versions being different.. i have cs1 and apparently there difference between cs1 and cs3.. on mine when i go there i have a drop down menu just requires click the item i want...

as far as images... yes you can but the board has no feature to allow directly uploading a image to the board.... you need to usee a file sharing service such as flickr or image shack or photobucket, etc.... you upload to them and then paste in the board here the url ...
to display the picture that link to another site... use the img button at the top of the editing area....

the following is a quote from there FAQ ...
""""""""""""Can I post Images?
Images can indeed be shown in your posts. However, there is no facility at present for uploading images directly to this board. Therefore you must link to an image stored on a publicly accessible web server, e.g. http://www.some-unknown-place.net/my-picture.gif. You cannot link to pictures stored on your own PC (unless it is a publicly accessible server) nor to images stored behind authentication mechanisms such as Hotmail or Yahoo mailboxes, password-protected sites, etc. To display the image use either the BBCode [img] tag or appropriate HTML (if allowed)."""""""

[stubar]

cool beans!! I think i have sorted it

In case anyone else has similar problems, I have changed my OS properties (Windows). Right-Click Desktop -> Properties -> Settings -> Advanced -> Color Management. I think my monitors default monitor settings pre-calibration were set here when I got my new monitor not so long ago. I loaded my latest calibration (been calibrating over-and-over trying to get my photoshop to look right!!!) then restarted photoshop.

I pasted the same clipboard image in that was previously too blue and dark, and voila!! It matches MS Paint image and also looks like it should

Thanks Jerry, it always helps to have someone to bounce ideas back and forth. Have a great weekend!

[jerryb]

hi,
great!! .... issue resolved .....
so the issue was with the OS and not PS ....

I was starrting to reread the ps help section on the color managment... there a lot of info there..... but great the issue resolved.