Brownish tint when opened in photoshop

Question

ive hade this problem for a quite a while now and i want it to be fixed
when i open a picture in photoshop( i have cs5 extendedby the way) there is a browish tint over the picture and its really annoying
here are some pics
photoshop:
another picture viewer
help me fix this problem please!!
the brownish tint needs to go =p
thanks for looking

Answer 1

art by accident wrote:
It seems to me you're dealing with a lot of red herrings here.
Well, that can always be the case!
Read emil's response again. It really is that simple. The only possible explanation I can see for what you describe, is that your monitor profile is bad (not correctly describing the monitor) - assuming the original file is good.
Read my response again, it's really that simple.  I said my presumption is that most sRGB profile tag'ed images are NOT good -- *especially*, if I read it in, and see that it doesn't look right.
As for my monitor's profile.  I included a fairly recently profile of it -- it get's measured .. well used to be every 3 months, but looks like I should switch to monthly.  I use an external light measuring device that physically measures the color response at various RGB settings so it can accurately determine the real-output of the computer's RGB setting, and get an accurate profile.
I decided color reproduction was important to me, and wanted to give people I sent my images to the best possible view I could for my equipment (not some standard that was above or below my equipments capacity).  Since doing so, I've gotten considerable feed back that my images look 'great' -- of course they have to have good image viewing sw on their end to get full advantage -- which is why I use V2 profiles which, at least are FF compatible when it has it's color profile feature activated (unfortunately it doesn't handle V4 profiles at the time of this writing).
Astara_ wrote:Inevitably, sRGB images tend to look more washed out or dimmer on my
display, in Photoshop,  if I read them in, _with_ the profile.
This is only natural if you have a wide gamut monitor. Untagged sRGB will be over-saturated.
The tagged version is the right one.
You see, I don't find them to be over-saturated in about 60% of the cases (about 40% -- somewhat).  I think they were photographed or created with a wider gamut device then someone slapped an sRGB profile on them in post-production because that's the standard -- not because they were created by an sRGB-accurate device.  In such cases, the tag'ed image is the inaccurate one and will be more washed out than what  you might see in real life (well, if you have dry eyes or cataracts, maybe not..)  I'll notice a difference on my computer monitor when my eyes are dry vs. moist.  Computer monitor usage tends to dry out the eye -- and dry eyes will cause sRGB eyes -- more washed out colors, less contrast.
But it also would depend on your work environment -- I tend to work in a low-light environment with a low level of incidental light, as a result, I have my monitors white level (brightness) turned lower than 50%, as well as it's black level (contrast), though I know that my previous monitor had to have it's values set closer to 70-100%, to appear normal even in a dimmer light.  But I generally have a black curtain blocking out outside light, and work with environmental light that is bbalanced to be about the same as an average computer image.
Unfortunately, as I write this, it's being written against a 100% white background that is the brightest thing in the room.  Thus it causes a bit of eyestrain --- but try getting all websites to change their maximum white level to say 78% @ 3% saturation H158...(a bit more gentle on the eyes). 
Of course you can assign other profiles as much as you like, but if you don't like the original that is just another way to color correct it, and there are better ways.
Just a guess, but if you are used to looking at images under higher light conditions it will reduce the overall contrast available to images on your monitor.  If you adjust your monitor to look right under higher light conditions -- you'd need to turn up brightness and color to compensate.
I.e. that might explain why you see more garish colors when you take off a questionable RGB profile vs. I see them, when applied as, often, being too washed out.  ??