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Photographer

welschvideo

Posts: 159

Los Angeles, California, US

For every photo I do now I have to start hitting ctrl y for proof colors and I never used to have to do that. Now everything is a lot more red than when I shot it and I have to drop the red color quite a bit to start editing.

Anyone know why this is? I tried using sRGB etc... But no luck. Just ends up looking the same when I save jpegs

May 28 14 03:53 pm Link

Model

Tiffany Garrett

Posts: 13

Albuquerque, New Mexico, US

And JPEG you opening in what program?

May 28 14 04:10 pm Link

Photographer

welschvideo

Posts: 159

Los Angeles, California, US

Tiffany Garrett wrote:
And JPEG you opening in what program?

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May 28 14 04:13 pm Link

Model

Tiffany Garrett

Posts: 13

Albuquerque, New Mexico, US

When you open Jpeg in photoshop, it looks normal?

Do you shoot RAW?
Does your camera profile supported by PS?
In what color space you work?
What about embedding ICC profile?
CMYK not as wide as other profiles, there always be difference.

May 28 14 04:18 pm Link

Photographer

welschvideo

Posts: 159

Los Angeles, California, US

Tiffany Garrett wrote:
When you open Jpeg in photoshop, it looks normal?

Do you shoot RAW?
Does your camera profile supported by PS?
In what color space you work?
What about embedding ICC profile?
CMYK not as wide as other profiles, there always be difference.

I shoot jpeg, RAW isnt supported in my version of PS. Canon 6D Photoshop Cs 5.5
Monitor RGB (recently) it used to be Internet Standard
I don't know enough about ICC Profile info, whatever default would be I assume
CMYK hardly ever.

May 28 14 05:02 pm Link

Retoucher

GrishaSevel

Posts: 42

Moscow, Moscow, Russia

I guess you should (for checking color space defaults)

press ctrl+shift+K
set default RGB space to sRGB
in "color managment policies" set RGB: ---> Preserve embedded Profiles

Then for proof you might need to set it anew.
In View-Proof Setup-Custom choose the right printer profile.

Also it could be because you're saving images in profiles other than sRGB. Make sure you convert your image into sRGB profile after editing by Edit-Convert to profile, set sRGB IEC61966-2.1 You can even open the picture you have problems with, convert it to sRGB and try if it works.

You can work in color spaces you find most proficient, but you need to convert to sRBG afterwards to make sure that images are displayed correctly on web.

Side-note: you should seriously consider shooting raw. I mean all the magic that retouchers can do with it...

May 28 14 05:03 pm Link

Photographer

Photons 2 Pixels Images

Posts: 17011

Berwick, Pennsylvania, US

Or maybe look and see if anything in the camera has changed. White balance, shoot mode (Not sure what they call it, but it gives you options for contrast, color saturation, etc. on conversion to JPG format). Would you be able to post an image with the exif data still intact?

May 28 14 05:45 pm Link

Photographer

welschvideo

Posts: 159

Los Angeles, California, US

GrishaSevel wrote:
I guess you should (for checking color space defaults)

press ctrl+shift+K
set default RGB space to sRGB
in "color managment policies" set RGB: ---> Preserve embedded Profiles

Then for proof you might need to set it anew.
In View-Proof Setup-Custom choose the right printer profile.

Also it could be because you're saving images in profiles other than sRGB. Make sure you convert your image into sRGB profile after editing by Edit-Convert to profile, set sRGB IEC61966-2.1 You can even open the picture you have problems with, convert it to sRGB and try if it works.

You can work in color spaces you find most proficient, but you need to convert to sRBG afterwards to make sure that images are displayed correctly on web.

Side-note: you should seriously consider shooting raw. I mean all the magic that retouchers can do with it...

All was set to what you specified with the exception of the printer option its on 1953 option.

I don't shoot raw only because I don't have a way to edit it, I'd have to save as a TIFF and I don't shoot big enough projects to show such details.

May 28 14 05:56 pm Link

Photographer

Photons 2 Pixels Images

Posts: 17011

Berwick, Pennsylvania, US

welschvideo wrote:

All was set to what you specified with the exception of the printer option its on 1953 option.

I don't shoot raw only because I don't have a way to edit it, I'd have to save as a TIFF and I don't shoot big enough projects to show such details.

Adobe makes a conversion tool to convert your RAW files to DNG files which your version of Adobe Camera Raw can open. In fact, if you get their conversion tool for your RAW files version, you can use the Adobe File Downloader tool (launched from bridge) to both download and convert on the fly.

May 28 14 06:04 pm Link

Photographer

Michael DBA Expressions

Posts: 3730

Lynchburg, Virginia, US

Have you calibrated your monitor recently?

May 28 14 06:21 pm Link

Retoucher

Pictus

Posts: 1379

Teresópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Maybe this BUG https://www.modelmayhem.com/po.php?thread_id=921316
also affects Photoshop 5.5

Also consider Resetting Photoshop to default settings
http://www.lancelhoff.com/how-to-reset- … -settings/

BTW, for the Canon 6D you can use http://www.picturecode.com/tutorials/photoshop.php as a plug-in substitute for the outdated ACR.

May 28 14 07:28 pm Link

Photographer

Photons 2 Pixels Images

Posts: 17011

Berwick, Pennsylvania, US

Resetting Photoshop might work. I'm guessing it isn't a calibration issue, though.

May 29 14 02:51 am Link