Colour Display - an observation

The display of colour, colour profiling and calibration are frequently asked about in these forums. I've always felt that as Elements is not a colour managed application it is not usually worthwhile spending too much time on it. Working in full Photoshop today, the following screenshot really demonstrates this. All three images are of the identical PSD format file, produced from a RAW file in full Photoshop. All three are clearly very different. The leftmost is from the PSE Editor, the centre from full Photoshop, and the (truly awful) rightmost from the Elements Organiser.
Both the Elements Editor and Organiser are set to 'Optimize for Printing', Photoshop for 'Europe Prepress 3'.
I'm posting this as an observation, rather than a question, but would be interested to hear other opinions about colour management in Elements.
Cheers,
Neale
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MichelBParis wrote:
What I can't say is why the PSE Editor and PS views of the same file have clearly different tones (you may need to click the screenshot to see this more obviously).
Yes, I can see that, and there must be a reason, perhaps a bug.
While I generally try and resist the notion that problems may be bugs, preferring to find a logical reason for software behaviour, I think you may be right.
I thought I'd try and recreate the scenario. As the screenshots were all of a RAW Image opened in full PS, cropped and saved as a .PSD (no jpegs involved anywhere) I went back to the original RAW image to start again - and saw it's thumbnail in the Organizer is also now showing as oversaturated. I deleted its sidecar file in case that had affected it somehow and refreshed the thumbnail but to no avail - it stays showing as oversaturated. However viewing its thumbnail in Windows Explorer looks fine, so somewhere in the workflow the Organizer view of the image just goes wrong.
Tomorrow I'll recover the original from backup, rename it and reimport it to see what happens.
Cheers,
Neale
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