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GaryRW
25-09-2005, 12:59
We're using photoshop to print out our wedding piccies. Now I can only see an ickle difference, but she swears that photoshop is making all the pictures too yellow.

[Edit: not sure whether it's important but it's photoshop elements]

The really weird thing is that if you open exactly the same image in windows pic&fax viewer, it looks fine, and matches the colours that print out. If you get it looking right in photoshop though, looks wrong when you print, and wrong in windows viewer

Any ideas? is there a fancy setting in photoshop to get colours to match that's set wrong and that I can't find?

Not sure whether computing or in here was the right forum - figured that you guys would be best to ask about colours & getting pictures looking good!
pkr
25-09-2005, 13:05
Possibly colour space? i.e. the images are in sRGB and Photoshop is assuming they are in Adobe RGB? or vice-versa?

Alternatively, the monitor profile Photoshop is using is wrong. Have a look in Control Panel for 'Adobe Gamma'. You could run that to profile your monitor. Tip : when you do the gamma, do all 3 colours ( R, G, & B ) and not the grey. Shut one eye and squint with the other as it helps with the setting.
phillied
25-09-2005, 16:17
I'd doubt it was colour space, if it's making it yellowish. I'd say it was more likely to be monitor profile...
GaryRW
27-09-2005, 07:44
Sorry - been busy since I posted and not had a chance to look into your two suggestions; The other hold-up is my eyes can only just tell the difference so really need my wife there to be sure whether anything I try is making a difference or not.

i will hunt through photoshop elements help to try and find how to switch colour space but if someone can point me in the vague direction that'd be great. I'm a proper photoshop noob and already tried searching help but each page only mentioned several other things that I'd never heard of!

As for it being the monitor profile, other apps are fine so can I just tell photoshop to just use the same profile as everything else? (apologies if that's a dum question)