Calibrated new monitor

I just calibrated my new monitor and when I opened Lightroom all of my pictures are orange and red! What do I do to get them back to the real colors??

Windows or Mac? I use a Spyder 4 Pro on Windows 7. The SpyderUtility software allows the calibration to be on or off. What happens when it is off? On Windows Color Management I can check that the correct ICC profile is loaded.

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    When I open JPEGS or RAW images in photoshop they have a dull, flat color to them.  This is happening after recently buying a NEW PA271W wide-gamut display and calibrating it using Spectraview 2.  It doesn't matter whether I have the Working Space in PS set to Adobe RGB or sRGB under color settings... The only way I can make my image look normal is to go under settings and ASSIGN PROFILE to Adobe RGB.  It looks fine then.  I could live with that, except the bigger problem is that I begin my editing process in RAW, where the colors are also looking flat.  The best I can tell, there is no way to assign a profile at this stage... and I don't even know if that would help. 
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    What you're describing sounds like your display profile is incorrect.
    Don't mess with the working space, don't assign profiles -- just fix the display profile.

  • Images look too light on new monitor

    Hi,
    I hope you can help me. I've been working in CS5.5 on two Dell desktops, using two Dell Ultrasharp monitors. The color was consistent on both. I created files on the newest of the two computers, viewing them on the Ultrasharp 2311 monitor. The files were used to produce both printed and digital books, and everything looked good. Note - I'm not a graphic designer. I never calibrated the monitors or made any adjustments to the settings, either in the system display or in PS.
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    Thanks Peter & Sid. I appreciate the advice, but it doesn't match our experience over 12 years of designing web applications so I'm having trouble understanding what's different, can I ask for any more advice you might have?
    If we calibrate the monitor using the recommended tools, will Photoshop images look 2-3 f-stops brighter (i.e. as they should look) and will images in all other apps (which look fine now, have always looked fine) look 2-3 f-stops too bright? Or would we be changing JUST the way Photoshop sees the images?
    Through probably a dozen different previous CRT and LCD monitors, we've never calibrated anything. Even on our immediately-previous Samsung 213T monitor, images appear pretty much the same in Photoshop as they do in all other places. That includes published web sites viewed with several popular browsers and viewed on literally hundreds of different systems inside and outside of our office.
    The previous monitor was being used with exactly the same software and hardware as the new one. The only thing that's changed is the monitor.
    Peter asks about brightness or white point luminance. I haven't used any tool to determine that. The monitor is set to 50% brightness, for whatever that's worth, but I can tell you that it is substantially BRIGHTER on white than the previous monitor. The previous Samsung monitor is being run side-by-side with the new one, and it looks quite dull and yellow beside the new one (and we thought it was a great monitor!) The new 30" Samsung has MUCH whiter whites. Does that help even a little?
    Thanks for any further advice.

  • Help me solve color and dark print issue with a new monitor recommendation!

    I know, I hate "surveys" too. I'm thinking of attacking my color and dark printing issues w\LR and CS4, by investing in a new monitor. I currently have an 20' early edition Apple Cinema Display. The monitor is the last hardware (software) item in my current upgrade cycle. From those folks who are NOT having color or print problems, what displays are you using (or would recommend)? Ah, and price is an issue. Apologies in advance to those who think this is not appropriate use of the Forum.

    Monitor calibration is the first port of call. Sometimes changing one item in a system is enough to show up a colour management issue. You suggest that the monitor is the last item in your upgrade cycle, what all have you changed? Computer, printer? There may also be a setting you have failed to set when you installed the new software, eg. have you remembered to set relative colorimetric with the black point compensation box ticked, disable colour management in your printer driver and put an appropriate colour profile for your monitor onto the new computer? You also need the correct profile for your printer/paper combination set up in Photoshop.
    If you haven't calibrated your monitor, that on its own will give you poor prints, but all the other bits are needed also.
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  • DULL colors only on  Adobe photoshop CS2 after buying a new monitor

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    Recently I bought a new widescreen LG monitor L206WTQ - which I had plugged in and installed the drivers etc etc! The screen works fine.
    I decided to open up my Adobe photoshop CS2 for the first time, to do some photoshopping (also to see what adobe would look like on my new monitor) ...and when I opened the my adobe, a error message popped up saying something like "your monitor 'LG monitor L206WTQ' is defected ... ..." - Now because I wasnt too sure what the message mean't, I just closed the message window and continued to work on adobe - which actually seemed to be running fine - only untill i relized that I could not get the true color WHITE on my color palete!
    I searched google for the problem and to my amazement ... I found a forum that answered my question. The forum told me to go to CONTROL PANEL > DISPLAY > COLOR MANAGEMENT > and then once I was here, click ADD to add the AdobeRGB1998.icc file and set it as the default color profile.
    I accepted these settings and opened up my Adobe to find that it WORKED ... I could get the true color white again.
    BUT! ... now I have found another problem and this is where I need your help. I was searching for photographs on my computer to photoshop on Adobe and when i opened up an image on adobe ... I noticed that the color of the photo is SLIGHTLY DULL compared to the original - Almost as though Adobe made the image a little less brighter. I double clicked on the photo in my MY DOCUMENTS FOLDER, so that i could compare the image to the one on adobe and I was right ... the image did look a bit more dull on Adobe. I thought maybe it was that particular image but every photo I open up on a Adobe now, becomes slightly dull.
    Strangely enough ... when I edit a photo in Adobe and save it under these "dull" conditions ... and open the edited image in my MY DOCUMENTS folder, the images color is back to normal!
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    Dale,
    Photoshop is colour managed. This means when sending RGB to the monitor it uses a profile that describes the monitor's behaviour.
    In order to display colours properly it has to change the RGB values sent to that specific monitor. The device profile is a set of offset values that is typical for that one monitor.
    Your current profile probably belongs to your previous monitor. Recalibrate an profile your monitor.
    Read this:
    http://www.computer-darkroom.com
    Rob

  • Where can I find a new monitor for my older MacBook Pro 13.3" laptop?

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  • Recommendations for a new monitor?

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    I'm using a 17" LCD, Acer model AL1706 on my G4 400MHz AGP. Was plug 'n play and has been flawless over the years. I'm sure the current model numbers are different.
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    Here's some Acer model LCD monitors.
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  • Mac Pro (Early 2008) failing with new monitor

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  • HT3014 my mac has the VGA port and I need a newer monitor for it. what do I use that will connect it. I had a new dell monitor and none of the things that dell said worked. so I am going to get a mac monitor for a second unit.

    my mac has the VGA port and I need a newer monitor for it. what do I use that will connect it. I had a new dell monitor and none of the things that dell said worked. so I am going to get a mac monitor for a second unit.
    my laptop is a 2008 model

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  • New Monitor, Old Computer Compatibility

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  • New monitor now screen way off center at proper resolution

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  • CALIBRATING LCD MONITORS IN YOUR WORKFLOW

    HEY
    WONDERING IF ANYONE IF CALIBRATING THEIR APPLE LCDS WITH ANYTHING LIKE THE EYEONE OR PANTONE STUFF BEING THAT THE COLOR OR NTSC DIFFERS AS WELL AS A REGULAR CRT ?
    ARE YOU SEEING BIG DIFFERENCES AND WHAT ARE YOU USING TO CALIBRATE THEM WITH.
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  • I need a new monitor

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    I have calibrated my monitor so that output to my personal printer is spot-on. But when I give a CD of digital images that look good on my monitor to someone else, they look washed-out on his/her monitor. Is there a way to standardize monitors, LCD or CRT or TV, Mac and PC?
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    Each monitor, even lcd monitors are slightly different. So even if you did send a profile,they would still not exactly match. The easiest way is to buy a monitor calibrator and each of you calibrate your monitors with it. That would be the closest match possible.
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