Forum: Photoshop


Subject: help with color problems...pleeeease

Claymor opened this issue on Nov 15, 2006 · 8 posts


pauljs75 posted Thu, 16 November 2006 at 1:20 AM

If you can find it, perhaps setting the RGB of your working space color profile to that of your monitor may help. If it's not available on the menu, look up your monitor make/model and colorspace or drivers at the manufacturer website or through an internet search engine and try to download the thing. (A bit of busy work, and odds are good for a lot of false leads if you go the search route - but it pays off.)

For color management policies, I found having them all turned off might actually be better. In my case I was going nuts because red in Photoshop would always display as orange on my screen. Obviously that's not a good representation of color gamut, isn't it? (The same pics would have red as red when viewed in other applications.) That one took me a good while to figure out.

Other than that, if you have the time and resources to make prints right - run proofs. Make a print. Use that as a guideline as to what needs to be changed. Then go back and tweak CMYK levels, etc. as needed and make another print and see if it improves...  Repeat as needed. Once it's right, save for future use. (But then this will probably just apply to your printer. But you could use your good print as a reference if you send a job off to an actual shop.)

There may be other better tweaks or suggestions, but mine might be a good start.


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