RGB turns into PG

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Rob_Blaauwbroek
Jun 17, 2004
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A couple of weeks ago I bought a new monitor (Sony flat panel) and from that moment on colors are sometimes strange when opening files. Instead of RGB I get PG (purple-green). The monitor has been checked at Sony’s.

I suspect an interaction between Photoshop CS and OS X.

Does OS X load files/preferences from Photoshop without the Photoshop application starting?

Opening a given image in PS is purple-green whereas opening the same image in Illustrator CS is OK.

So – is interaction between monitors and PS a known issue or not?

Robert
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g_ballard
Jun 17, 2004
I would start with loading a new monitor profile and recalibrating…

<http://www.gballard.net/nca.html#getagoodscreen>
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Buko
Jun 17, 2004
Or read the FAQs "colors all wrong"
GB
g_ballard
Jun 17, 2004
er,:

Nobody reads the FAQs.

-Chris Cox
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progress
Jun 17, 2004
thats cos they dont know what theyre asking is an FAQ…perhaps if they were displayed as stickys then people would see them first.
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Rob_Blaauwbroek
Jun 17, 2004
thanking you for your warming comments at least ballard got me on a possible track.

not the right track yet because some images are weird still.

seems like the default SDM-S93 profile is corrupt from the start and basing a calibration on that profile isn’t doing any good.

fiddling with profiles is what I will do tomorrow.

rbl
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g_ballard
Jun 21, 2004
some images are weird still.

May I suggest you download a known "good file" PDI Target (on my previous link), and test the settings and monitor profile.

After that, you’re probably looking at bad/off legacy files…what else could explain "some images are (still) weird"?
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Buko
Jun 21, 2004
Also if your original monitor profile is bad you can get a new one from the manufacturers web site or use srgb profile as the starting point.

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