Thursday, December 24, 2009

Why is Photoshop showing images too dark?

Images viewed in Photoshop or Adobe Bridge looks significantly different from when viewed with other applications such as Paint Shop, ACDsee, ifranviewer, etc. They look way too dark, the picture tone has too low brightness to have any likeness with the image taken. Assigning or changing profiles doesn't resolve problem, and since images views nicely on other applications it isn't a monitor calibration issue. Why is Photoshop showing images too dark?
Actually it can't be anything else.


It's probably a bad monitor profile.





PaintShop and other applications have much more basic Color Management Capabilities, the chances are that Photoshop is actually using the right profiles rather than PainShop.





If you are in Vista try apllying as a device profile one of the Generic RGBs.


If after that your images look the same in different apllications (not necessarily good) then the problem is in your profile.





Also make sure that you set Photoshop to preserve colors when opening documents.


Maybe you have Photoshop set to convert or discard mismatching profiles upon opening them.


Go to Edit/Color Settings and choose to Ask what to do before opening a file with a mismatched profile.








If you like upload a picture so I can check if there is a problem with any embedded profiles, or upload a screenshot of your screen with the image open in Photoshop and PaintShop side by side

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