Help with Color Settings Please

[spykat]

Hello all,

I am having a problem with my Color Settings in Photoshop CS2.
The colors look "murky" and seem biased toward a brown or pink cast.
My monitor HAS been calibrated, Mode = "RGB Color - 8 bits/Channel. I trashed my Preferences (Ctrl+Alt+Shift ) and images look just fine everywhere except for Photoshop.

The below will illustrate not only my Color Settings, but also will hopefully provide a visual representation of what is wrong.

The first image is a screen capture of my Color Settings. While in Photoshop, it had a predominate pink cast to it. However, when "Saved As" a jpg and opened in another image viewer (Irfanview) the correct gray-silver was back.

Here it is:
1)

OK, this might get a bit confusing. This second image is a screen capture of the screen capture. I did this because as I said, outside of Photoshop the above image looks ok. By "capturing the screen capture" while IN Photoshop, we are able to see the incorrect color bias.

Here it is:
2)


I hope that helps to illustrate the problem.
One thing I should add is that I use PS for web stuff almost
exclusively -- hardly ever for print.

One last thing, what should I be putting in for "Proof Setup", and should I have "Proof Colors" checked or not?

SPECS:

* Photoshop CS2 for Windows
* OS: Windows 2000
* Monitor: NEC Multisync LCD1760V
* Resolution: 1289 x 1024, 32 bit
* Graphics Card: NVIDIA GEForce3 Ti 200 128 MB DDR SDRAM

I hope that someone will be able to help me out on this.

Thanks so much

[Disjuku]

can you change working spaces> grey to 'Grey gamma 2.2'

I think that is what I changed when I had a similar problem... not positive though.

[spykat]

Disjuku,

Thanks for the suggestion, but it didn't make the necessary correction

[Disjuku]

hmm, damn... do you have another computer with the same version of photoshop setup on it? Try making sure the settings are the same for both of them.

[spykat]

Nah, just the one computer...

[muscle750]

Looks like u got same prob as me and ive askedall sorts of people and tried playing all with no sucess. Its so annoying I cant get a nice white its got a pinkish cast to it, what i dont understand is when i view the pics in "My Pictures" they are fine when i view in CS2 its bad!
Same as you it aint the moniter

[spykat]

Muscle,

I saw your post as well.
I even tried trashing my PS Preferences by holding down ctrl-alt-shift while PS is booting, to no avail.

Funny thing, when I choose "View -> Proof Setup -> Monitor RGB" then click on "View -> Proof Colors" everything looks fine again(!).
If, however, I do a color sample of the olive green I have on my image, the color it returns is that same murky brown I referred to earlier.

I have tried "Help" in PS, but for some reason they gloss right over it.

I looked on the Adobe Photoshop Forum but that place is a bigger mess than the W3C site!

Oh well, maybe someone here will be able to help us.

[kyockxzsnt]

Did you use spectro or any other gadgets in calibrating your monitor? or you had done it manually?

[spykat]

Hi kyockxzsnt,

Manually, then I checked my settings with a monitor color utility that runs thru various color modes.
All colors looked true when I did this.

[Disjuku]

Well, I know I am going to be completly and utterly useless here... but I have run into this problem a couple of times (mostly with version 6 I think :/) - although I am unsure how I eventually fixed the problems.

I suspect it was one of two ways:

1: adjusted the colour settings in photoshop to match a similar computer

2: adjusted adobe gama/other computer colour settings