A funny thing's happening to my colour

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I've only noticed this recently - possibly since I installed XP SP2. I used Adobe Gamma to calibrate the monitor.

I can put a photo in PS CS and tweak it until it looks perfect. But in any other application, or on the web, it looks noticeably paler, less saturated.
It can't be the monitor, so - either something's not right here or the internet needs tweaking... any suggestions please?

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Okey-doke. Well the camera is set to Adobe RGB. PS Color Settings tell me PS is set to Adobe (RGB) 1998.

So... as that seems to be correct, what's next?

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Phil S said:

Have you ticked the box next to Profile Mismatches: Ask when opening? If not do so, reload a file and discard the colour profile. Then when you save it, it should look the same in all applications.

Cheers Phil, I've ticked it. I've seen warnings like that before; maybe the upgrade unsettled it. Anyway, I'll try it like that and see what happens.

It's still odd though as the images are straight from the D70: I just opened one in PS and got no warning.

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406 said:

Where did you set the camera to Adobe RGB, I cant find it in the menu?

It's in Shooting menu/Optimize image/Custom/Color mode.

(I had to get the manual out too!)

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Thanks Ed - I know you are the king of colour profiling!

I first noticed it while making this page:
www.autograph.uk.com/bloke/social.htm
How do they look to you? They were great when I made them in PS but now seem a bit bleached.

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V6GTO said:

Some look a bit blue, while others look a bit green...or have I had one too many?

That's probably the result of me struggling to fight the disappearing reds... it's a bummer when you get something looking really nice on PS then it all gets unravelled...

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By chance when I went to open an image in PS today I got the colour profile warning.

There were three options; to use the profile of the image, to use the profile of PS, or neither. So I made three copies and tried each option. The latter gave the warmer tones that looked good in PS but didn't come across in anything else.

I want people to see my photos look the same as I do when I make them. I found that changing the colour profile from sRGB1998 to the monitor profile (IEC-something) seemed to be the best match.