This has never happened before until recently. The problem appears to be temporary and only happens in CS2. I’ve closed images and reopened them and the problem goes away, but why is it happening in the first place? Histogram looks fine. I’m wondering if I inadvertently changed a setting or something??
Yes, it’s set to millions. That is the first thing I checked. But it’s only happening in photoshop, not the entire monitor, and not all images are effected. It happened the other day and went away and now it’s back..very mysterious..
Meaning the desktop or other open images are not effected. Unfortunatley, I don’t have that file open anymore, but I did make a screen shot of a section of the image, but it is not at full res. This happened a couple of days ago and then everything was back to normal. This is the second time so it may very well happen again. One thing I did notice when I was saving it the last time was it said the embedded profile was my EyeOne profile, it usually says Adobe RGB or sRGB (depends). I use an EyeOne to calibrate my monitor, don’t know if that makes a difference?? What format should I save it in next time?
Here’s what I have for now if you want to take a look. BTW my histogram was fine in the OG file.
It’s back…affecting only one particular image. The banding does not print and does not show up when I upload to pixentral. It does not show up in the save as file especially if I wait a few minutes to reopen it. My display is still at millions.
I’ve been using PS for a couple years now and never had this problem before. If it’s the video card wouldn’t it affect the entire monitor, every image, and how websites appear, rather than a single image at a time? What does replacing a video card entail?
How do you get a bad monitor profile? I used my EyeOne to calibrate my monitor, the profile it came up w/ is my "monitor profile," correct? I made several profiles w/ the EyeOne and the one I’m currently using matches my prints closest. If it doesn’t affect every image and the problem goes away, this indicates a monitor profile problem?
I doesn’t sound like a bad profile if this is the only pic that does this. I would remake the profile again none the less because profiles do go corrupt.
Maybe I’m not using the correct terminology. When I use my EyeOne to calibrate my monitor, is the resulting profile considered my monitor profile? If so, I made several of these profiles either in "easy mode" where the device makes the profile for me automatically, I used 5000K and 2.0, 6500K and 2.2, etc. I did this to try and find the best match to my lab prints. Why? Because my main goal for calibrating is to have my lab prints match my monitor as close as possible.
And yes, on any given day (lately) one or two pictures will be affected by banding/posterization. Those pictures will be fine when I close/reopen them. This has been going on for about a week. My display has been acting wacky. For example, I didn’t have the brightness slider in Preferences>Displays, then I did, and now I don’t again.
You should NOT be using a monitor profile as your RGB working space in PS nor converting to your file to it. When you make your monitor profile you need to do nothing more. PS will find the monitor profile and display images using it on the fly – no user intervention is required. Make sure your RGB working space is set to AdobeRGB and your problems will be gone.
You should NOT be using a monitor profile as your RGB working space in PS nor converting to your file to it. When you make your monitor profile you need to do nothing more. PS will find the monitor profile and display images using it on the fly – no user intervention is required. Make sure your RGB working space is set to AdobeRGB and your problems will be gone.
This IS exactly what I have always done. My RGB working space IS Adobe RGB (1998), and I have never changed that. However, I did once notice when I was doing a Save As of an affected file it said the embedded profile was my EyeOne profile. I have no idea why??
North American Prepress 2 U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2 Dot Gain 20% Dot Gain 20%
Preserve Embedded Profiles " " " " Ask when opening
I got this out of a Scott Kelby book as he stated it was appropriate for photography. However, the final jpeg I send to my online lab gets converted to sRGB as that’s what they require.
Where it says settings, mine said North America Prepress 2, and I changed it to custom. Other than that my color settings are EXACTLY the same as the one you have posted and always have been. I have never changed it. When I did a SaveAs of one of the affected images I noticed it said the embedded profile was the EyeOne profile. Why this is, I have no idea?? I do know that I never had this problem until I started using the EyeOne a couple of weeks ago, so there’s a glitch somewhere. I’m just glad it doesn’t seem to affect my images permanently.
Where it says settings, mine said North America Prepress 2, and I changed it to custom. Other than that my color settings are EXACTLY the same as the one you have posted and always have been.
Make absolutely certain your "RGB:" setting actually says "Adobe RGB (1998)". That will be your working space.
The reason you see your EyeOne profile embedded in some of your images is either (a) that you converted your image to your monitor profile at some point, or (b) that you had your "RGB:" setting set to said EyeOne profile. That could happen without your noticing it if you accidentally hit the Save button in the Edit Color Settings dialog box and saved it under some name (perhaps "U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2" or "Custom") thereby overriding the defaults. If that happened, your working space would be one of your EyeOne profiles, which is something you do not want to do.
I switched it from North American Prepress 2 to custom yesterday. Other than that I have not even been in the color settings dialog box in months. Yes, it does say Adobe RGB (1998) just as it has for the past year or more. My other settings are exactly like the example Ramon posted. Anyway, I will keep a close eye on it to see if I’m inadvertently converting it somehow.
Yep, You are correct. I just looked at post #18 and apparently I just skipped right over the RGB setting-the most important part of the whole question. But it is Adobe RGB (1998) as it always has been.
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