Sony flat screen monitor and photoshop cs colorsync problems– help!!

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Ryniee_Auh
Aug 29, 2004
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I love my flat screen monitor but no matter what kind of colorsetting futzing I do, I get a magena-ish cast in the shadows and a greenish cast in the highlights of skin. It’s really weird. I only have this problem on skin tones. Color on everything else has been superb. Can anyone suggest a solution? I have a Mac G5 dual 2gz running photoshop cs. The Sony monitor is the sdm-s94 model.

Help much appreciated!!

Big thanks,
R
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Ram
Aug 29, 2004
Ryniee,

no matter what kind of colorsetting futzing I do…

Have you tried properly and accurately calibrating your monitor and saving the profile for it instead of "futzing with color settings"?

If you don’t have an accurate monitor profile, anything you do afterwards is a waste of time.

Try this:

<http://www.gballard.net/nca.html>
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Ann_Shelbourne
Aug 29, 2004
You mentioned ColorSync.

Use the Adobe (ACE) Engine in your Photoshop Color Settings instead of the Apple ColorSync engine.

And re-calibrate your Monitor.
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Neil_Keller
Aug 30, 2004
Ryniee,

The stated above. It is important to get your monitor right through profiling — NOT by re-engineering your images. Otherwise your images will never print properly.

Neil
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g_ballard
Aug 30, 2004
Ya, download a known good file like PDI_Target_AdobeRGB.jpg <http://www.gballard.net/nca.html#getagoodfile>

Set a known not-broke Photoshop Color Settings "US PREPRESS DEFAULTS" (for testing) <http://www.gballard.net/nca.html#setuppsdcm>

Then evaluate the monitor…if PDI Target is correct, your other files are the problem.

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