Brightness Values in Lighroom Development and Photoshop

Why do brightness values differ between Lightroom development module and Photoshop? A picture taken form newtral grey card with correct exposure shoud translate into RGB values of 125 or a brightness of 50% in the HSB-model. This works with photoshop, however, the white balance tool in Lightroom development module displays a brightness value of about 56% which translates in 50% when opening the raw file in photoshop. To me it also looks like lightroom displays the raw file a little bit brighter than photoshop.
1. What is the reasoning and
2. Are there any measures to align lightroom and photoshop with regard to brightness

1. What is the reasoning and
Lightroom uses a colorspace with prophotoRGB primaries and a linear gamma internally. It always operates in 16 bits. LR does this for precision and for reasons of working in the widest possible gamut. However, for the display values, you cannot rely on linear 16 bit values (0-65535), because few people understand them and most of the values will bunch in the lower numbers. So Lightroom, only for the purposes of the value display and the histogram, uses a sRGB tone curve (I discuss that on this page BTW) to modify the values you see and translates into percentages.
2. Are there any measures to align lightroom and photoshop with regard to brightness
No, there is absolutely no way that you can set up a colorspace in Photoshop that corresponds to the prophotoRGB space with a sRGB tone curve value display in Lightroom. It simply doesn't exist. Somebody might make an ICC profile with those features at some point, but I have never seen it. You can only do this with math. It is not that hard to calculate back and forth between the 1.8 gamma space of standard prophotoRGB and the sRGB tone curve but it is very tedious if you need to do that often. If you simply need to hit a target, do the simple gamma conversion calculation, but otherwise it's best to give up on it.
To me it also looks like lightroom displays the raw file a little bit brighter than photoshop.
If your display is correctly calibrated, the displays will be bit-for-bit identical. Many people are fooled by the effect of the darker interface in Lightroom into thinking Lightroom's display is brighter. It's not.

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    08/21/14 09:27:20:533 | [ERROR] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 25152 | DF037: Unable to delete directory "/Applications/Adobe Illustrator CC 2014/Plug-ins.localized". Check and correct folder & parent directory permissions and then try again.(Seq 17)
    08/21/14 09:27:20:533 | [WARN] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 25152 | DW063: Command ARKDeleteDirectoryCommand failed.(Seq 17)
    08/21/14 09:27:20:533 | [ERROR] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 25152 | DF037: Unable to delete directory "/Applications/Adobe Illustrator CC 2014". Check and correct folder & parent directory permissions and then try again.(Seq 18)
    08/21/14 09:27:20:533 | [WARN] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 25152 | DW063: Command ARKDeleteDirectoryCommand failed.(Seq 18)
    08/21/14 09:27:20:533 | [ERROR] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 25152 | DF037: Unable to delete directory "/Applications/Adobe". Check and correct folder & parent directory permissions and then try again.(Seq 19)
    08/21/14 09:27:20:533 | [WARN] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 25152 | DW063: Command ARKDeleteDirectoryCommand failed.(Seq 19)
    08/21/14 09:27:20:533 | [INFO] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 25152 | Completing un-installation for payload at /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Uninstall/CommonUninstall.db
    08/21/14 09:27:20:533 | [INFO] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 25152 | Physical payload uninstall result:0
    08/21/14 09:27:20:623 | [INFO] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 24018 | *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* Operation complete. Setting status: 0 =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*
    08/21/14 09:27:20:623 | [INFO] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 24018 | :: END TIMER :: [Payload Operation :CommonUninstall] took 101 milliseconds (0.101 seconds) DTR = 79.2079 KBPS (0.0773515 MBPS)
    08/21/14 09:27:20:624 | [INFO] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 24018 | User specified overrideFile:
    08/21/14 09:27:20:625 | [INFO] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 24018 | The csu inventory was not updated for payload  8.0.0.15 CommonUninstall, value of local var is -1
    08/21/14 09:27:20:625 | [INFO] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 24018 | Calling the ROLLBACK custom action code for pre-remove for payload  8.0.0.15 CommonUninstall
    08/21/14 09:27:20:698 | [INFO] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 24018 | No operation.  We're done:
    0/22/14 11:18:46:937 | [INFO] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | Beginning un-installation for payload at /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Uninstall/CommonUninstall.db
    10/22/14 11:18:46:938 | [INFO] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | UninstallSeq property not found in database
    10/22/14 11:18:46:938 | [ERROR] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DF037: Unable to delete directory "/Users/MikeTessersComputer/Library/Preferences/Adobe/dynamiclinkmediaserver". Check and correct folder & parent directory permissions and then try again.(Seq 1)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:938 | [WARN] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DW063: Command ARKDeleteDirectoryCommand failed.(Seq 1)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:938 | [ERROR] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DF037: Unable to delete directory "/Users/MikeTessersComputer/Library/Preferences/Adobe InDesign". Check and correct folder & parent directory permissions and then try again.(Seq 2)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:938 | [WARN] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DW063: Command ARKDeleteDirectoryCommand failed.(Seq 2)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:938 | [ERROR] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DF037: Unable to delete directory "/Applications/Adobe". Check and correct folder & parent directory permissions and then try again.(Seq 3)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:938 | [WARN] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DW063: Command ARKDeleteDirectoryCommand failed.(Seq 3)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:938 | [ERROR] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DF037: Unable to delete directory "/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Startup Scripts CC/Adobe Photoshop". Check and correct folder & parent directory permissions and then try again.(Seq 4)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:938 | [WARN] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DW063: Command ARKDeleteDirectoryCommand failed.(Seq 4)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:938 | [ERROR] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DF037: Unable to delete directory "/Library/Application Support/Adobe/InDesign/Version 9.0/en_US/Extensions". Check and correct folder & parent directory permissions and then try again.(Seq 5)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:938 | [WARN] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DW063: Command ARKDeleteDirectoryCommand failed.(Seq 5)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:938 | [ERROR] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DF037: Unable to delete directory "/Library/Application Support/Adobe/InDesign/Version 9.0/en_US". Check and correct folder & parent directory permissions and then try again.(Seq 6)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:938 | [WARN] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DW063: Command ARKDeleteDirectoryCommand failed.(Seq 6)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:938 | [ERROR] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DF037: Unable to delete directory "/Library/Application Support/Adobe/InDesign/Version 9.0". Check and correct folder & parent directory permissions and then try again.(Seq 7)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:938 | [WARN] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DW063: Command ARKDeleteDirectoryCommand failed.(Seq 7)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:939 | [ERROR] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DF037: Unable to delete directory "/Library/Application Support/Adobe/InDesign/Version 10.0/en_GB/Extensions". Check and correct folder & parent directory permissions and then try again.(Seq 8)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:939 | [WARN] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DW063: Command ARKDeleteDirectoryCommand failed.(Seq 8)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:939 | [ERROR] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DF037: Unable to delete directory "/Library/Application Support/Adobe/InDesign/Version 10.0/en_GB". Check and correct folder & parent directory permissions and then try again.(Seq 9)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:939 | [WARN] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DW063: Command ARKDeleteDirectoryCommand failed.(Seq 9)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:939 | [ERROR] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DF037: Unable to delete directory "/Library/Application Support/Adobe/InDesign/Version 10.0". Check and correct folder & parent directory permissions and then try again.(Seq 10)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:939 | [WARN] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DW063: Command ARKDeleteDirectoryCommand failed.(Seq 10)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:939 | [ERROR] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DF037: Unable to delete directory "/Library/Application Support/Adobe/InDesign". Check and correct folder & parent directory permissions and then try again.(Seq 11)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:939 | [WARN] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DW063: Command ARKDeleteDirectoryCommand failed.(Seq 11)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:939 | [ERROR] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DF037: Unable to delete directory "/Library/Application Support/Adobe/HelpCfg/ro_RO". Check and correct folder & parent directory permissions and then try again.(Seq 12)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:939 | [WARN] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DW063: Command ARKDeleteDirectoryCommand failed.(Seq 12)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:939 | [ERROR] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DF037: Unable to delete directory "/Library/Application Support/Adobe/HelpCfg/en_GB". Check and correct folder & parent directory permissions and then try again.(Seq 13)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:939 | [WARN] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DW063: Command ARKDeleteDirectoryCommand failed.(Seq 13)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:939 | [ERROR] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DF037: Unable to delete directory "/Library/Application Support/Adobe/HelpCfg/el_GR". Check and correct folder & parent directory permissions and then try again.(Seq 14)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:939 | [WARN] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DW063: Command ARKDeleteDirectoryCommand failed.(Seq 14)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:939 | [ERROR] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DF037: Unable to delete directory "/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CEPServiceManager4/Adobe/AdobePatchFiles". Check and correct folder & parent directory permissions and then try again.(Seq 15)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:939 | [WARN] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DW063: Command ARKDeleteDirectoryCommand failed.(Seq 15)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:940 | [ERROR] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DF037: Unable to delete directory "/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CEPServiceManager4/Adobe". Check and correct folder & parent directory permissions and then try again.(Seq 16)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:940 | [WARN] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DW063: Command ARKDeleteDirectoryCommand failed.(Seq 16)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:940 | [ERROR] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DF037: Unable to delete directory "/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CEP/extensions". Check and correct folder & parent directory permissions and then try again.(Seq 17)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:940 | [WARN] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DW063: Command ARKDeleteDirectoryCommand failed.(Seq 17)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:940 | [ERROR] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DF037: Unable to delete directory "/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CEP". Check and correct folder & parent directory permissions and then try again.(Seq 18)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:940 | [WARN] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DW063: Command ARKDeleteDirectoryCommand failed.(Seq 18)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:940 | [ERROR] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DF037: Unable to delete directory "/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe/AdobePatchFiles". Check and correct folder & parent directory permissions and then try again.(Seq 19)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:940 | [WARN] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DW063: Command ARKDeleteDirectoryCommand failed.(Seq 19)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:940 | [ERROR] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DF037: Unable to delete directory "/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe". Check and correct folder & parent directory permissions and then try again.(Seq 20)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:940 | [WARN] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DW063: Command ARKDeleteDirectoryCommand failed.(Seq 20)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:940 | [ERROR] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DF037: Unable to delete directory "/Applications/Adobe Photoshop CC 2014/Plug-ins". Check and correct folder & parent directory permissions and then try again.(Seq 21)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:940 | [WARN] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DW063: Command ARKDeleteDirectoryCommand failed.(Seq 21)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:940 | [ERROR] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DF037: Unable to delete directory "/Applications/Adobe Photoshop CC 2014". Check and correct folder & parent directory permissions and then try again.(Seq 22)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:940 | [WARN] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DW063: Command ARKDeleteDirectoryCommand failed.(Seq 22)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:940 | [ERROR] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DF037: Unable to delete directory "/Applications/Adobe InDesign CC 2014/Plug-Ins". Check and correct folder & parent directory permissions and then try again.(Seq 23)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:940 | [WARN] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DW063: Command ARKDeleteDirectoryCommand failed.(Seq 23)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:941 | [ERROR] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DF037: Unable to delete directory "/Applications/Adobe InDesign CC 2014/Plug-Ins". Check and correct folder & parent directory permissions and then try again.(Seq 24)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:941 | [WARN] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DW063: Command ARKDeleteDirectoryCommand failed.(Seq 24)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:941 | [ERROR] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DF037: Unable to delete directory "/Applications/Adobe InDesign CC 2014". Check and correct folder & parent directory permissions and then try again.(Seq 25)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:941 | [WARN] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DW063: Command ARKDeleteDirectoryCommand failed.(Seq 25)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:941 | [ERROR] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DF037: Unable to delete directory "/Applications/Adobe InDesign CC 2014". Check and correct folder & parent directory permissions and then try again.(Seq 26)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:941 | [WARN] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DW063: Command ARKDeleteDirectoryCommand failed.(Seq 26)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:941 | [ERROR] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DF037: Unable to delete directory "/Applications/Adobe Illustrator CC 2014/Plug-ins.localized/Extensions.localized". Check and correct folder & parent directory permissions and then try again.(Seq 27)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:941 | [WARN] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DW063: Command ARKDeleteDirectoryCommand failed.(Seq 27)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:941 | [ERROR] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DF037: Unable to delete directory "/Applications/Adobe Illustrator CC 2014/Plug-ins.localized/Extensions.localized". Check and correct folder & parent directory permissions and then try again.(Seq 28)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:941 | [WARN] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DW063: Command ARKDeleteDirectoryCommand failed.(Seq 28)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:941 | [ERROR] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DF037: Unable to delete directory "/Applications/Adobe Illustrator CC 2014/Plug-ins.localized". Check and correct folder & parent directory permissions and then try again.(Seq 29)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:941 | [WARN] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DW063: Command ARKDeleteDirectoryCommand failed.(Seq 29)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:941 | [ERROR] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DF037: Unable to delete directory "/Applications/Adobe Illustrator CC 2014/Plug-ins.localized". Check and correct folder & parent directory permissions and then try again.(Seq 30)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:941 | [WARN] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DW063: Command ARKDeleteDirectoryCommand failed.(Seq 30)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:941 | [ERROR] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DF037: Unable to delete directory "/Applications/Adobe Illustrator CC 2014". Check and correct folder & parent directory permissions and then try again.(Seq 31)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:941 | [WARN] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DW063: Command ARKDeleteDirectoryCommand failed.(Seq 31)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:941 | [ERROR] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DF037: Unable to delete directory "/Applications/Adobe Illustrator CC 2014". Check and correct folder & parent directory permissions and then try again.(Seq 32)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:941 | [WARN] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DW063: Command ARKDeleteDirectoryCommand failed.(Seq 32)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:942 | [ERROR] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DF037: Unable to delete directory "/Applications/Adobe". Check and correct folder & parent directory permissions and then try again.(Seq 33)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:942 | [WARN] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | DW063: Command ARKDeleteDirectoryCommand failed.(Seq 33)
    10/22/14 11:18:46:942 | [INFO] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | Completing un-installation for payload at /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Uninstall/CommonUninstall.db
    10/22/14 11:18:46:942 | [INFO] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77654 | Physical payload uninstall result:0
    10/22/14 11:18:47:030 | [INFO] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 77365 | *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* Operation complete. Setting status: 0

  • Merge InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop together?

    Wouldn’t it be great to have everything you need in one app?
    Actually, there are currently some applications like this.
    Take a look at DAWs. They deal with recorded audio (similar to bitmap) and MIDI (like vector) at the same time.
    And if you are looking for a visual stuff you can check SideFX Houdini. They have several contexts for dealing with the data: 3d models (sops), various input data (chops), compositing context (you can do image color correction, layering etc.), shader context, programming, rendering contexts etc. And you can have each of them any place you want. This + the fully procedural approach makes Houdini one of its kind application that gives you endless possibilities to build complex effects, models and animations. You can even build your own tools, like city generating assets (as seen in Inception or 2012 movies). You can even write music and manipulate robots in this app (if you want to).
    So it is totally possible to fuse those apps together. Certainly it is a huge amount of work. But think of it: you now have to install Phantasm to apply Curves or Hue/Saturation in Illustrator, you have inner shadow in InDesign and Photoshop but not in Illustrator, you have good Paragraph and Character styles in InDesign but half-assed in PS and Illustrator, also grids, object styles, link management and so on. Wouldn’t it be great to have everything at once? Like in Houdini? You choose image and you can do what can be done with raster, you choose text and context changes to show what can be done with text. I’ve been dreaming about it for years.

    Hi, Dov:
    On Mac OS X and Windows, it's possible to easily switch from one OPEN/ACTIVE/RUNNING application to another, with a simple keystroke shortcut.
    So, in a sense, the tools are in one's toolbelt, ready for use, now. Or, from another view, the tools are in the equivalent of a Swiss Army Knife (SAK,) but not quite. Actually, it's usually awkward to switch from one SAK tool to another - depending on where they're located on the SAK body, some combinations of tools can be open at the same time. For example, the corkscrew, awl, or Phillips screwdriver can be open on the back, while a file, scissor, or eating utensil can be open on one or the other end of the front. The user can orient the SAK one way or another to use an open tool. A few tools can be removed, like the tweezer and toothpick, so there's a tad more flexibility.
    The multiple Creative Suite applications can be open at the same time. However, if the computer lacks sufficient resources, there's an awkward delay in switching from one application to another, while resources scramble to meet the users' requests.
    Perhaps the understood but unstated wish is that the tools were more-efficiently integrated, so that switching from one set of functions to another within an integrated application, would demand less from the resources, compared to the current model of switching from one standalone application to another.
    It's a fascinating wish. However, wish with care. Some SAKs used to have lifetime warranties. "If it breaks, we'll replace it." The problem is that when the broken item is returned, the user is without all the tools during the replacement. In the integrated-application model, the analog is when a bug hits, fixing it will require testing the complement of integrated applications to verify that the fix didn't break something somewhere else. Hence, users may be stuck with the buggy version longer, before a fix can be developed, tested, and certified.
    As hardware continues becoming ever-more powerful, eventually, pauses due to switching among independent applications will be less and less annoying.
    Regards,
    Peter
    Peter Gold
    KnowHow ProServices

  • Keyboard shortcuts no longer working on 10.5 in Firefox and Photoshop

    We developed an Inuttitut keyboard layout for Mac OS X 10.4 and above (Inuttitut is the language of the Inuit in Nunavik, the most northerly region of Québec province in Canada). For information, our layout allows to type in Unicode whenever Caps Lock is on (Caps Lock off giving the standard Canadian English keyboard) and our keyboard layout Nunavik [Unicode] CSA can be dowloaded from this webpage (http://www.kativik.qc.ca/en/aipai-fonts). The only problem we found is on 10.5, both with FireFox (2 and 3) and Photoshop (CS3). When we select our keyboard layout (using Mac OS Input Method Selector), shortcuts using the Cmd key don't work anymore (Cmd-C for copying, etc.) in FireFox when Caps Lock is on, and in Photoshop whether Caps Lock is on or off.
    It is important to note that our keyboard layout abides by the Mac OS X standards for developing keyboard layouts, and works perfectly with all other applications we have tested so far, on Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5.
    We believe that 10.5 has a new feature whose side effect is to render shortcuts ineffective for FireFox and Photoshop (and very likely other applications that we don't use).
    PLEASE: email a copy of your post to Alain (dot) Rochefort [at-sign] kativik (dot) qc (dot) ca

    Ignore the permissions messages, as per http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1448
    Here's the second way:
    While logged into the newly created admin account, backup the bad account's folder, delete the bad account, selecting the save data option (which is stored in /Users/Deleted Users/ as a disk image), recreate the bad account using the same username/password combo, log out and back into the recreated original account. If the problem's solved, open the saved data dmg file in /Users/Deleted Users/, open the /Library/Preferences/ folder from the saved data, open the current /Users/restored account/Library/Preferences/ folder, and slowly copy plist files from the saved data folder to the current one that don't exist in it. Log out and back in to ensure there's no conflict and things still work correctly. Resolving conflicts or identifying corrupt plist files is a laborious process. Good luck.

  • JPG images not displayed correctly in Bridge and Photoshop (Mac OS)

    (Note: I have copied the content of this query from the Creative Suites forum where I originally opened it.)
    I am using CS4 under OSX 10.4.11 on a PowerMac G5 Quad with 23" Apple cinema display. Images which have been captured as JPG are displayed fine by Preview, but when opened in Bridge, Camera Raw or Photoshop. the colours are all "washed out". The attached screen capture should give an idea of the difference, with the upper being Camera Raw (image settings) and the lower being Preview. My monitor has been calibrated and I'm using sRGB IEC61966-2.1 colour space in Camera Raw and Photoshop. The colours displayed by Preview are pretty close to "real life". I find it virtually impossible to adjust the colours in Photoshop to get back to anything similar.
    After opening the image in Photoshop without adjustment, and Save As JPEG with embedded color profile, Preview displays the new image the same as Photoshop. Save As JPEG without embedded color profile, and Preview displays this copy just like the original. It seems that Photoshop is making different (incorrect) assumptions about what color space to use when there is no embedded color profile. Shouldn't it assume sRGB like virtually everything else (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRGB)? Or is its interpretation of sRGB incorrect? How can I fix this?
    Re: JPG images not displayed correctly in Bridge and Photoshop 

    xxxxyyyyz wrote:
    …If there is someone out there who has experience of obtaining decent colour management in CS4 on a Power PC, I would really like to know how you achieved it.
    That would be yours truly, and I hasten to reply because I may have some insights that can help you too.
    Just get it it out of the way, here's my setup:
    Photoshop 11.0.2 ("CS4"); VersionCue disabled and uninstalled.—2.5 GHz Power Mac (PPC) G5-Quad; 16GB RAM; mutant, flashed 550MHz nVidia GeForce 7800GTX 1,700MHz 512MB VRAM; ATTO ExpressPCI UL5D LP SCSI card; Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11 and Leopard 10.5.8 boot drives; Spotblight, Dashboard and Time Machine permanently disabled; dual 22" CRT monitors; USB wireless 'n' available but connected to the Internet via wired Ethernet; 1 FW flatbed scanner; 2 SCSI scanners (one tabloid-size transparency scanner and a film scanner); various internal & external HDs; FW Epson 2200 and Ethernet Samsung ML-2850ND printers; 2 X Back-UPS RS 1500 XS units.
    I can unambiguously and in good faith represent to you that my color management, from capture to print, is as spot-on as anyone with any kind of setup can hope to achieve.  Unequivocally and without qualifications.
    Now, first things first:  Forget about trying to synchronize color management across the point applications lumped together only by Adobe marketing fiat into a variety of meaningless "creative suites".  Concentrate on Photoshop.  Do not try to use Bridge to synchronize anything.
    The "suites" are a totally artificial construct created by Adobe bean counters and marketing types.  The point applications (i.e. the individual programs clumsily bundled together, e.g. Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, etc.) are developed independently by separate engineering teams that are not only not in the same building, but in different cities, different states of the American Union, and even in different countries.  They have very little communication among them, if any, as evidenced by repeated posts in these forums by Photoshop engineering staff urging us, the end users, to let the other teams know in their own forums that a given problem exists and is actually affecting our work.
    Enough said about the cause of the problem.  The end result is that Color Management is at very, very different levels of progress and sophistication in each individual point application, with only Photoshop fully entitled to be considered state of the art.
    Secondly, a disclaimer:  I have been hanging on to my CRT monitors and take care of them as Jascha Heifetz used to take care of his Stradivarius.  I don't know what I will do if I manage to outlive the usefulness and accuracy of my CRTs (unlikely at this point).  I have despaired in futile efforts to bring the luminosity of any LCD monitor down to where I would feel comfortable calibrating and profiling it.  I believe my monitors are the foundation of my color management efforts.
    Especially if you have one of the extreme wide-gamut LCD or LED monitors, you'll face an uphill battle. 
    Be careful to avoid any version 4 icc profiles, whether canned or generated by your calibration software.  Stick to version2 icc profiles.  Ask the manufacturer of your calibration software/hardware if in doubt.
    Here are some not-too-recent, but thoroughly representative screen shots of the calibration results I obtain with my monitors, which I calibrate and profile often and regularly (I validate the calibration at least several times per month).
    In a nutshell, my color management practices and settings mirror those described by Bruce Fraser, Jeff Schewe, Andrew Rodney and Gary Ballard's site.  I have learned from all of them.
    My working color space is ProPhoto RGB.  I choose to work with PSD and PSB files.  As a long-time, rabid JPEG hater, I only rarely deal with JPEGs, using them sporadically to illustrate a point in this forum or elsewhere in the web.  My main output consists of prints.
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