Display colour cast in PE3

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Roger Whitehead
Feb 9, 2006
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I’ve recently discovered a quirk in Photoshop Elements 3 (running in Windows). It’s putting on a colour cast of its own when showing my pictures (but not on the files themselves). It’s most evident on white areas, which come out a pale dirty yellow.

I’ve put this screen grab on Flickr to show the problem – http://www.flickr.com/photos/rogergw/97500315 (best viewed at a large size). You’ll see that IrfanView – lower right – renders the white areas of the Web page correctly. Also, the scroll bars on PE are showing a proper shade. It’s not a monitor problem, therefore.

Any thoughts on the cause and a solution?

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Roger
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Roger Whitehead
Feb 9, 2006
In article , Roger Whitehead wrote:
I’ve recently discovered a quirk in Photoshop Elements 3 (running in Windows). It’s putting on a colour cast of its own when showing my pictures (but not on the files themselves). It’s most evident on white areas, which come out a pale dirty yellow.

Problem solved! It turns out this is a result of turning on full colour management. If I revert to no colour management, I see my whites as they should be.

The question now is why this should happen.

Roger
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neon
Feb 10, 2006
Roger Whitehead wrote:
In article , Roger Whitehead wrote:

I’ve recently discovered a quirk in Photoshop Elements 3 (running in Windows). It’s putting on a colour cast of its own when showing my pictures (but not on the files themselves). It’s most evident on white areas, which come out a pale dirty yellow.

Problem solved! It turns out this is a result of turning on full colour management. If I revert to no colour management, I see my whites as they should be.

The question now is why this should happen.

Roger
google ‘color management’
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Tesco News
Feb 10, 2006
"Roger Whitehead" wrote in message
In article , Roger Whitehead wrote:
I’ve recently discovered a quirk in Photoshop Elements 3 (running in Windows). It’s putting on a colour cast of its own when showing my pictures (but not on the files themselves). It’s most evident on white areas, which come out a pale dirty yellow.

Problem solved! It turns out this is a result of turning on full colour management. If I revert to no colour management, I see my whites as they should be.

The question now is why this should happen.

Roger

Hi.

The real question is "Why is a Photographer not using a Colour Managed Workflow?"

Roy G
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Roger Whitehead
Feb 10, 2006
In article <gR_Gf.2284$>, Neon wrote:
google ‘color management’

The point of specialised forums like this is to ask for and, one hopes, receive specific advice. How does something that gives 141,000,000 hits count as specific?

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Roger
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Roger Whitehead
Feb 10, 2006
In article <lp0Hf.86054$>, Tesco News wrote:
The real question is "Why is a Photographer not using a Colour Managed Workflow?"

Right, now you’ve paraded your superiority, is there any chance of your offering some help? You could start by telling this photographer why he would want to.

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Roger
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Sandy Birrell
Feb 10, 2006
Roger Whitehead wrote:
In article <gR_Gf.2284$>, Neon wrote:
google ‘color management’

The point of specialised forums like this is to ask for and, one hopes, receive specific advice. How does something that gives 141,000,000 hits count as specific?

You might find the following usefull.

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/workflow1.shtml

http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/walkthrough/learningcen ter.php

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/calibration.shtm l

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Tesco News
Feb 10, 2006
"Roger Whitehead" wrote in message
In article <lp0Hf.86054$>, Tesco News wrote:
The real question is "Why is a Photographer not using a Colour Managed Workflow?"

Right, now you’ve paraded your superiority, is there any chance of your offering some help? You could start by telling this photographer why he would want to.

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Roger

Hi.

No problem about telling why.

By the way, I was not attempting to be superior. I know, for sure, that there are very many people out there who know a great deal more than I do. It was just that you seemed to assume that Ps was wrong, and never questioned your own system.

The whole point of Colour Management and Calibration is to ensure that the colours you see on your Monitor, from any specific Image, will be the same as I or anyone else would see on our systems when looking at that same image. The same goes for Printing. My Printer should print that image almost exactly the same as your Printer, (or more to the point), Walmarts or Whoever.

In other words it is designed to produce standardisation, in a variety of situations, with everyone using different equipment.

As you can imagine, a fairly complicated task, but it is not rocket science either.

Before getting to Printing, you really need to get your Monitor Profiled and Calibrated. Once that has been done and Elements is set up correctly, then you will know that the colours you are seeing on screen are the correct ones.

Most of the other programs are not Colour Managed, even the wonderful Irfanview, so Elements will show your images differently.

In addition to the already mentioned Sites, have a read at www.computer-darkroom.com. Remember that while Elements does not have the full range of CM controls, there are enough to make the system work.

Roy G
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Roger Whitehead
Feb 11, 2006
In article <u%6Hf.18250$>, Sandy Birrell
wrote:
You might find the following usefull.

Thanks, Sandy. I’ll read what they say.

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Roger
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Roger Whitehead
Feb 11, 2006
In article <o08Hf.16758$>, Tesco News wrote:
No problem about telling why….

Thanks, Roy. Much more constructive. 😎

Roger

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