Henry,
You are describing exactly what I experienced when I began using PSE2, except in my case it was a pink cast.
In addition to calibrating my display, as Bert recommends, I had to download and install the "IgnoreEXIF" utility from Adobe to get rid of the pinkish color. In my case, monitor calibration, while a necessity, had very little impact on the color cast, and the IgnoreEXIF utility made the "night and day" difference.
Byron
I am very reluctant to run the Adobe Gamma utility for fear of irreperably screwing up the monitor settings,if it does not help. There are 400 programs on my computer and NONE of them have any problem with the color. The problem is ONLY with Photoshop Elements 2; suggesting that the problem is due to some setting in PE2??? The monitor must already be properly calibrated if the other 400 programs have no problem with color (Intel Graphics controller?).
If I run the Adobe Gamma utility and it does not work; can it be undone? I tried Ignore EXIF, by itself, and it did not help.
I can post pictures of what is happening in PE2, if we can use email.
Callibrating the monitor has two aspects to it – one is getting the screen to look right; the other is generating a colour profile that tells colour managed applications how the screen looks and therefore how to display colours. It’s likely that it’s the profile that is screwy – recallibrating is likely to have relatively little affect on how colours look in other apps but will give Elements (which is likely to be the only colour manged application) a correct profile so that it displays colours correctly.
Susan S.
I ran the Adobe Gamma utility and it appears to have corrected the problem. I was surprised at
how easy it was. I followed the instructions in the url provided by Brent in the first reply above,but the only thing it let me do was to adjust the grey box. Nothing else came up,. to do, after that… no red, green and blue…. no brightness and contrast….NOTHING! And yet it appears to be working properly although I think that the display seems to be a bit too bright, but it is certainly a lot better than it was and NO HORRIBLE ORANGE OVERCAST!
Many thanks to all of you for your help!
Henry
I have prints that are coming ut much cooler than what i see in PE. In PE I have the shot exactly how I want it. When it prints I get a much cooler shot over all and in the case of flesh tones somewhat pinker.
I have a Canon i950, I’m using Canon paper. I set the print option to colorsync and detailed/fine, chose the right paper etc. Also used BJ standard. tried everything.
I downloaded the ignoreEXIF, and added its folder to PE Plugins. No change. I tried color managment, no management, on and on
The files are originally TIF. some had to be lightened and otherwise adjusted but again I am seeing a operfect shot in PE. I don’t have this problem with other photos, perhaps the fleshtones are still a little pink but otherwise fine. This series, which are all from one party, I can’t get what I have in PE to the printer.
I am running MAc OSX 10.2.8.
