Photoshop - Motion - DVDSP Color Problem

This message is crossposted in the Motion Forum because I'm not sure where the solution is to be found...
I'm putting together a dvd and I wanted to create transition animations to go between the menus. I've run into a bit of a color problem, however. To explain:
I created my main menu as a layered photoshop document (8-bit RGB, NTSC colorspace). I brought that menu into Motion, preserving all layers. I animated those layers in motion so that at the end of the animation they were another menu on the dvd, then I exported the last frame of the animation, brought it back into photoshop, and made everything line up so that it precisely matched the final frame of the animation, then saved that PSD as a new layered document. Finally, in DVD Studio Pro, I brought in the two Menu PSDs and the animated transition.
The problem I'm running into is that the color on the transition animation is washed out and somewhat desaturated compared to the menu PSDs. Rather than the seamless transition from layered menu PSD to animation and back to layered menu PSD, you can see this altered color "pop" on the animation.
Here's what I've checked and tried:
-I've exported the motion project as every codec that made any kind of sense (Animation NTSC, Apple Pro Video NTSC, etc).
-I've brought the Motion project directly into DVD Studio Pro, rather than exporting it.
-Using the color inspector in both Photoshop and Motion, I can see that all RGB values match exactly as they should.
-When I exported a frame of the animation and brought it back into Photoshop to create the second layered menu, the color matched exactly. In fact, I did the alignment using the "difference" layer mode, and there was no color shift at all.
So... any ideas?
Also: I'm going from these layered menus to a video track (first frame matches the layered menu) to another layered menu (matching the final frame of the video track)... that is the most sensible way to have animated transitions between menus, right?
Thanks in advance for any insights.
-W

Well, I found a solution... DVDSP didn't like the image in NTSC, but it seems to work with Generic RGB, provided I redo all of the animation from scratch using the same Generic RGB PSDs. A bit of a pain, but I suppose that's why I did this test after completing only one of the many animations the project will demand.
Thanks everyone for the insights.

Similar Messages

Transferring images from Photoshop to Imageready (color problem)

Hi,
I've noticed that when I place one of my Photoshop images in Imageready (to create a new web page), the color is different when the image is in Imageready. It seems to lose vivrancy and saturation. The photos are of my artwork, so I really care about the color being correct.
Does anyone know what I could do to help this problem, or if I have a preference wrong or something?
Thanks,
Allan

the short answer:
calibrate/profile your monitor to 2.2 gamma, d65/6500
convert to sRGB before going to ImageReady (or Save for Web)
http://www.gballard.net/psd/go_live_page_profile/embeddedJPEGprofiles.html

Photoshop cs5 white color problem

Hi,
I have photoshop cs5 . When I am trying to select white color from foreground / background color giving color code "ffffff" ,255,255,255 but showing cream color. Please .....need a very urgent solution.
Subrata

Hi Mylenium ,
Thank you for the early response which helped me to solve the problem .
Solution : In windows 7 ->search programs and files ->enter "dccw.exe" ->enter will open "Welcome to color calibration" then follow the steps.
Thanks again
Subrata

Moving images from Lightroom to Photoshop 2014 CC – Color Problems?

For some reason, whenever I select "Edit in Photoshop 2014 CC", the image color is not only extremely different from what's displayed in Lightroom, it's dark and dull. However, if I export the image as a .jpg and then import it into Photoshop 2014 CC the color looks the same as what's displayed in Lightroom and this is with NO color correction.
Why is this happening and how should I be moving files between the two apps? BTW, I shot the images with a Canon T3i that saves the image as a CR2 and JPG.
Thanks!

I'm running Lightroom and Photoshop CS3. "Edit image in Photoshop CS3" works fine for me. I'm on an iMac and had Lightroom installed first, only thing I noticed is it takes PS a little longer to open up.

Color problems in photoshop cs5 and bridge

Recently, whenever I open images in photoshop or view them in Bridge, they look desaturated. In Bridge, they load normal at first but after a couple of seconds, they become desaturated and I can't figure out what the problem is. I have all of the same color management settings as before, the only difference on my computer since the colors stopped working was that my computer installed windows updates. The images look fine when viewing them in the Windows viewer, and in other programs like ACDSee, etc. It only looks like this in Adobe programs. I checked in Bridge under Creative Suite color settings, and it is under North America General Purpose 2. In Photoshop, I checked color settings, and all of them are marked as convert to working rgb, cmyk, etc. Any suggestions?

The monitor color profile tells Photoshop and the other color managed programs how your monitor displays colors. Color profile files are installed by putting them in C:\Windows\System32\spool\drivers\color. Then to assign or confirm a color profile for your monitor, you use the Color Management control panel. Under the Devices tab when 'Use my settings for this device" is checked, the color profile currently in used is the one which name ends with (default). For example 'Dell U2410 color Profile, D650 (default)'.
You can download the color profile for you monitor from here http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?releaseid=R279694&formatcnt=0&libi d=0&fileid=413637
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?releaseid=R279694&formatcnt=0&libi d=0&fileid=413637
it downloads a .exe file which is simply a decompressor like .zip files. Run it, and in the folder you will find a file with the name DELL-U2410.icm - his is your monitor color profile from Dell. However most likely Windows has already installed it for you.
Now, given your situation, you may have these eventual problems.
First problem.
Your monitor is a wide gamut monitor 102% of NTSC and Windows defaults at sRGB which is about 70% fo NTSC. NTSC is a color space representing the visible spectrum and is used in monitor specs for measuring the gamut.
Assuming that for some time you didn't use a color profile which more closely represents your monitor, Photoshop was displaying images on your wide gamut monitor using the default sRGB color profile which represent standard gamut sRGB monitors and this is very different from yours. Said in other words you were seeing one thing on your monitor while Photoshop was assuming it is another thing. This becomes a problem when you convert from one color space to another and display or reproduce the image on other devices, and in your case when monitor profile is changed to a very different one. To fix this you have to assign your correct monitor profile to the images that were created with the wrong profile and then convert to a common color space like sRGB, AdobeRGB, etc. Assign and Convert to profiles are in the Edit menu.
Second problem.
The color profile from Dell may not be representing correctly how your monitor displays colors. Dell creates a profile that is not measured to your particular unit but for what they assume is an average representation of the monitor's model. Using it, you depend entirely on luck. I have u2711 and I was very unlucky. If you are curious you can study my case which may be also very educational for you and will be able to see clearly the difference between the colors of my monitor and those the Dell color profile represents. Follow the same instructions above for downloading the color profile for your monitor but download the one for u2711 from here
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?releaseid=R247058&formatcnt=1&libi d=0&fileid=365277
then go to that web site from your link http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/articles/icc_profiles.htm and download my color profile that I'm sharing there. It is 'Dell U2711 Spyder 3 + Color Eyes DP User' once you have the color profiles files on you computer, go to this site http://www.iccview.de/content/view/3/7/lang,en/ , upload my monitor profile and the one from Dell and compare. That web site will give a 3D plot of two color spaces in a 3D viewer that you can navigate to see it from all sides (using the Ctrl, Shift navigates faster). The difference that you see made it impossible to create even simple images for the web using Photoshop. I convert from AdobeRGB to sRGB and when Photshop assumes that my monitor displays colors the way they are described in the Dell's profile, all detail in the shadows is eliminated and my images look like crap. I even got better results from creating a profile using this free software http://www.calibrize.com/ it uses the so call eyeometer relying on your eyes for feedback and although the colors were noticeably off, at least the shadow detail was preserved.
Hope that helps

Could not initialize photoshop because of a problem using the adobe color engine (Win 7)

Was running the lastest version of Photoshop CS5 and added a second quad graphics card and 4 more monitors. Now PS will not start and I get the error message "could not initialize photoshop because of a problem using the adobe color engine."
Computer has 2 NIVDIA Quadro4 NVS420 graphics boards with 8 Samsung SyncMaster 1920x1080 monitors. If I disable 4 of the monitors CS5 starts normally. I do not have to remove the added graphics card. When I extend the desktop again to all 8 monitors I get the error above.
How do I trouble-shoot the problem? Is it Photoshop, NIVDIA or Windows 7?

Well, not exactly a full solution yet (at least for my setup), but I am certain now that this issue is (mostly) caused by nVidia's drivers. You may be able to fix your setup by simply installing the latest drivers for your NVS420 cards (266.45 for Win 7/64 rel. 01/12/2011).
Since you are using two identical cards, this could do the trick.
Caveats - Make sure you:
1. Select Custom Install, the Express Install will most likely not work properly.
2. Unselect the Audio Driver (if available), the nVidia HD(MI) Audio driver could
screw up your speech recognition (if you use it) or other audio software - it did for me.
3. Select Clean Install. If you don't, files like C:\Windows\System32\drivers\nvlddmkm.sys
and several other driver related files will not be overwritten, causing all sorts of neat effects.
4. After the Install is complete, reboot your system whether the Installer prompts you or not.
After testing various configurations, disabling two - six of my eight monitors I am at this point:
I am now using nVidia's lastest and greatest piece of crap (read driver), version 266.58, released just two days ago. After an initial snag with maximized windows extending to the bottom of the main monitor (underneath the taskbar), a re-install & reboot solved that issue.
All three driver versions tested (260.89, 260.99, 266.58) now allow me to start PhotoShop without any problems; providing I first disable the two monitors fed by my onboard graphics (nVidia 780a based), leaving me with six monitors connected to three GTS-450 cards. I can even re-enable the two other monitors once the program is open, and it continues to work fine. However, I must disconnect them again for the next start of PhotoShop.
On an interesting side note:
After disabling six monitors (leaving only two on a GTS-450), I was also able to open and run SoundBooth CS5, which previously would not open, citing the audio driver as the problem. After sucessfully starting SoundBooth I could re-enable all six other monitors (incl. onboards),
and that program now opens and works fine with all 8 monitors connected. [ODD !!!]
Other than Adobe Software, I've had only one other issue with my setup:
When playing online poker at PokerStars, occasionally and quite randomly one of multiple tables would freeze up. I'll try disabling the two onboard monitors for that program as well to see whether the random freezes stop.
Overall, while I think that Adobe produces fine software and nVidia has been in need of an overhaul for quite some time now, I also think that Adobe and nVidia software engineers need to work more closely together to ensure that problems like this don't arise in the first place after a product has been released to the public. IMHO, this is avoidable!
PS:
Here's a link to a great tool for multiple monitors, Display Fusion by Binary Fortress.
I use the free version, it allows you to do cool things like have individual wallpapers for all
your monitors, or stretch a single image across all monitors. With the Pro Version ($25),
you can also add individually customizable taskbars to each monitor, and a lot more.
http://www.displayfusion.com/

Photoshop CS5.1 Crashes Upon Opening: "Photoshop has encountered a problem with the display driver-"

Every time I try to open photoshop I get a window that pops up and says:
"Photoshop has encountered a problem with the display driver, and has temporarily disabled GPU enhancements. Check the video card manufacturer's website for the latest software.
GPU enhancements can be enable in the Performance panel of Preferences."
Then windows shuts the program down. The details of the problem are:
"Files that help describe the problem:
C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Temp\WER70AD.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml
C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Temp\WER9389.tmp.appcompat.txt
C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Temp\WER9407.tmp.hdmp"
I'm on a custom Asus
I'm using Win7 Home Premium 64-bit
16GB RAM
Nvidia Geforce GTX 560 2GB video card
Intel i7 core 2.2 GHz
12 GB of memory
The error happens so quickly that I don't have time to do anything. Please help. >.< I've been on hold for *checks phone* 2 hours exactly. Wow. It is a legit copy and was working last month with no trouble. I've updated the drivers and tried a few solutions that have worked for other people that I found on Google (such as disabling CUDA and setting my "power management mode" to "prefer maximum performance" on my video card) but so far nothing has worked.
Thanks in advance!

It has stopped crashing because somehow it turned off "Enable GL Drawing" on its own because I could never even get a menu open. Not sure how it did that but I am grateful. I still get the error when I open Photoshop up but at least it hasn't crashed yet. At the time when it was crashing I never would have been able to get you the system info due to the speed that it was crashing upon just opening the program. In case you still need it:
Adobe Photoshop Version: 12.1 (12.1x20110328 [20110328.r.145 2011/03/28:10:30:00 cutoff; r branch]) x64
Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit
Version: 6.1 Service Pack 1
System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:10, Stepping:7 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2
Physical processor count: 8
Processor speed: 2394 MHz
Built-in memory: 16361 MB
Free memory: 13322 MB
Memory available to Photoshop: 14694 MB
Memory used by Photoshop: 60 %
Image tile size: 128K
Image cache levels: 4
OpenGL Drawing: Disabled.
OpenGL Drawing Mode: Basic
OpenGL Allow Normal Mode: True.
OpenGL Allow Advanced Mode: False.
OpenGL Crash File: Detected.
OpenGL Allow Old GPUs: Not Detected.
Video Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Video Card Renderer: GeForce GTX 560M/PCIe/SSE2
Display: 1
Display Bounds:= top: 0, left: 0, bottom: 1080, right: 1920
Video Card Number: 1
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M
Driver Version: 9.18.13.697
Driver Date: 20121002000000.000000-000
Video Card Driver: nvd3dumx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvd3dum,nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um
Video Mode: 1920 x 1080 x 4294967296 colors
Video Card Caption: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M
Video Card Memory: -2047 MB
Serial number: 92628077745082451425
Application folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 (64 Bit)\
Temporary file path: C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Temp\
Photoshop scratch has async I/O enabled
Scratch volume(s):
C:\, 931.4G, 511.4G free
Primary Plug-ins folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 (64 Bit)\Plug-ins\
Additional Plug-ins folder: not set
Installed components:
   A3DLIBS.dll   A3DLIB Dynamic Link Library   9.2.0.112
   ACE.dll   ACE 2010/12/13-23:37:10   64.449933   64.449933
   adbeape.dll   Adobe APE 2011/01/17-12:03:36   64.452786   64.452786
   AdobeLinguistic.dll   Adobe Linguisitc Library   5.0.0
   AdobeOwl.dll   Adobe Owl 2010/06/03-13:43:23   3.0.93   61.433187
   AdobeOwlCanvas.dll   Adobe Owl Canvas   3.0.68   61.2954
   AdobePDFL.dll   PDFL 2010/12/13-23:37:10   64.341419   64.341419
   AdobePIP.dll   Adobe Product Improvement Program   5.5.0.1265
   AdobeXMP.dll   Adobe XMP Core   5.0   64.140949
   AdobeXMPFiles.dll   Adobe XMP Files   5.0   64.140949
   AdobeXMPScript.dll   Adobe XMP Script   5.0   64.140949
   adobe_caps.dll   Adobe CAPS   4,0,42,0
   adobe_OOBE_Launcher.dll   Adobe OOBE Launcher   2.0.0.36 (BuildVersion: 2.0; BuildDate: Mon Jan 24 2011 21:49:00)   1.000000
   AFlame.dll   AFlame 2011/01/10-23:33:35   64.444140   64.444140
   AFlamingo.dll   AFlamingo 2011/01/10-23:33:35   64.436825   64.436825
   AGM.dll   AGM 2010/12/13-23:37:10   64.449933   64.449933
   ahclient.dll    AdobeHelp Dynamic Link Library   1,6,0,20
   aif_core.dll   AIF   2.0   53.422628
   aif_ogl.dll   AIF   2.0   53.422628
   amtlib.dll   AMTLib (64 Bit)   4.0.0.21 (BuildVersion: 4.0; BuildDate: Mon Jan 24 2011 21:49:00)   1.000000
   amtservices.dll   AMTServices (64 Bit)   4.0.0.21 (BuildVersion: 4.0; BuildDate: Mon Jan 24 2011 21:49:00)   1.000000
   ARE.dll   ARE 2010/12/13-23:37:10   64.449933   64.449933
   asneu.dll    AsnEndUser Dynamic Link Library   1, 7, 0, 1
   AXE8SharedExpat.dll   AXE8SharedExpat 2011/01/10-23:33:35   64.436825   64.436825
   AXEDOMCore.dll   AXEDOMCore 2011/01/10-23:33:35   64.436825   64.436825
   Bib.dll   BIB 2010/12/13-23:37:10   64.449933   64.449933
   BIBUtils.dll   BIBUtils 2010/12/13-23:37:10   64.449933   64.449933
   boost_threads.dll   DVA Product   5.0.0
   cg.dll   NVIDIA Cg Runtime   2.0.0015
   cgGL.dll   NVIDIA Cg Runtime   2.0.0015
   CoolType.dll   CoolType 2010/12/13-23:37:10   64.449933   64.449933
   data_flow.dll   AIF   2.0   53.422628
   dvaadameve.dll   DVA Product   5.0.0
   dvacore.dll   DVA Product   5.0.0
   dvaui.dll   DVA Product   5.0.0
   ExtendScript.dll   ExtendScript 2011/01/17-17:14:10   61.452840   61.452840
   FileInfo.dll   Adobe XMP FileInfo   5.0   64.140949
   icucnv36.dll   International Components for Unicode 2009/06/17-13:21:03    Build gtlib_main.9896
   icudt36.dll   International Components for Unicode 2009/06/17-13:21:03    Build gtlib_main.9896
   image_flow.dll   AIF   2.0   53.422628
   image_runtime.dll   AIF   2.0   53.422628
   JP2KLib.dll   JP2KLib 2010/12/13-23:37:10   64.181312   64.181312
   libifcoremd.dll   Intel(r) Visual Fortran Compiler   10.0 (Update A)
   libmmd.dll   Intel(r) C Compiler, Intel(r) C++ Compiler, Intel(r) Fortran Compiler   10.0
   LogSession.dll   LogSession   2.1.2.1263
   MPS.dll   MPS 2010/12/13-23:37:10   64.450375   64.450375
   msvcm80.dll   Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005   8.00.50727.6195
   msvcm90.dll   Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2008   9.00.30729.4940
   msvcp80.dll   Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005   8.00.50727.6195
   msvcp90.dll   Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2008   9.00.30729.4940
   msvcr80.dll   Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005   8.00.50727.6195
   msvcr90.dll   Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2008   9.00.30729.4940
   pdfsettings.dll   Adobe PDFSettings   1.04
   Photoshop.dll   Adobe Photoshop CS5.1   CS5.1
   Plugin.dll   Adobe Photoshop CS5   CS5
   PlugPlug.dll   Adobe(R) CSXS PlugPlug Standard Dll (64 bit)   2.5.0.232
   PSArt.dll   Adobe Photoshop CS5.1   CS5.1
   PSViews.dll   Adobe Photoshop CS5.1   CS5.1
   SCCore.dll   ScCore 2011/01/17-17:14:10   61.452840   61.452840
   tbb.dll   Threading Building Blocks   2, 1, 2009, 0201
   TfFontMgr.dll   FontMgr   9.3.0.113
   TfKernel.dll   Kernel   9.3.0.113
   TFKGEOM.dll   Kernel Geom   9.3.0.113
   TFUGEOM.dll   Adobe, UGeom©   9.3.0.113
   updaternotifications.dll   Adobe Updater Notifications Library   2.0.0.15 (BuildVersion: 1.0; BuildDate: BUILDDATETIME)   2.0.0.15
   WRServices.dll   WRServices Thursday January 21 2010 12:13:3   Build 0.11423   0.11423
   wu3d.dll   U3D Writer   9.3.0.113
Installed plug-ins:
   3D Studio 12.1 (12.1x20110328 [20110328.r.145 2011/03/28:10:30:00 cutoff; r branch])
   Accented Edges 12.0
   ADM 3.11x01
   Angled Strokes 12.0
   Average 12.1 (12.1x20110328 [20110328.r.145 2011/03/28:10:30:00 cutoff; r branch])
   Bas Relief 12.0
   BMP 12.0.2
   Camera Raw 6.7
   Chalk & Charcoal 12.0
   Charcoal 12.0
   Chrome 12.0
   Cineon 12.1 (12.1x20110328 [20110328.r.145 2011/03/28:10:30:00 cutoff; r branch])
   Clouds 12.1 (12.1x20110328 [20110328.r.145 2011/03/28:10:30:00 cutoff; r branch])
   Collada 12.1 (12.1x20110328 [20110328.r.145 2011/03/28:10:30:00 cutoff; r branch])
   Color Halftone 12.0.2
   Colored Pencil 12.0
   CompuServe GIF 12.0.2
   Conté Crayon 12.0
   Craquelure 12.0
   Crop and Straighten Photos 12.1 (12.1x20110328 [20110328.r.145 2011/03/28:10:30:00 cutoff; r branch])
   Crop and Straighten Photos Filter 12.0.2
   Crosshatch 12.0
   Crystallize 12.0.2
   Cutout 12.0
   Dark Strokes 12.0
   De-Interlace 12.0.2
   Dicom 12.0
   Difference Clouds 12.1 (12.1x20110328 [20110328.r.145 2011/03/28:10:30:00 cutoff; r branch])
   Diffuse Glow 12.0
   Displace 12.0.2
   Dry Brush 12.0
   Eazel Acquire 12.1 (12.1x20110328 [20110328.r.145 2011/03/28:10:30:00 cutoff; r branch])
   Embed Watermark 4.0
   Entropy 12.1 (12.1x20110328 [20110328.r.145 2011/03/28:10:30:00 cutoff; r branch])
   Extrude 12.0.2
   FastCore Routines 12.1 (12.1x20110328 [20110328.r.145 2011/03/28:10:30:00 cutoff; r branch])
   Fibers 12.0.2
   Film Grain 12.0
   Filter Gallery 12.0
   Fresco 12.0
   Glass 12.0
   Glowing Edges 12.0
   Google Earth 4 12.1 (12.1x20110328 [20110328.r.145 2011/03/28:10:30:00 cutoff; r branch])
   Grain 12.0
   Graphic Pen 12.0
   Halftone Pattern 12.0
   HDRMergeUI 12.0
   IFF Format 12.0.2
   Ink Outlines 12.0
   JPEG 2000 2.0
   Kurtosis 12.1 (12.1x20110328 [20110328.r.145 2011/03/28:10:30:00 cutoff; r branch])
   Lens Blur 12.0
   Lens Correction 12.0.2
   Lens Flare 12.0.2
   Lighting Effects 12.1 (12.1x20110328 [20110328.r.145 2011/03/28:10:30:00 cutoff; r branch])
   Liquify 12.0.1
   Matlab Operation 12.1 (12.1x20110328 [20110328.r.145 2011/03/28:10:30:00 cutoff; r branch])
   Maximum 12.1 (12.1x20110328 [20110328.r.145 2011/03/28:10:30:00 cutoff; r branch])
   Mean 12.1 (12.1x20110328 [20110328.r.145 2011/03/28:10:30:00 cutoff; r branch])
   Measurement Core 12.1 (12.1x20110328 [20110328.r.145 2011/03/28:10:30:00 cutoff; r branch])
   Median 12.1 (12.1x20110328 [20110328.r.145 2011/03/28:10:30:00 cutoff; r branch])
   Mezzotint 12.0.2
   Minimum 12.1 (12.1x20110328 [20110328.r.145 2011/03/28:10:30:00 cutoff; r branch])
   MMXCore Routines 12.1 (12.1x20110328 [20110328.r.145 2011/03/28:10:30:00 cutoff; r branch])
   Mosaic Tiles 12.0
   Multiprocessor Support 12.1 (12.1x20110328 [20110328.r.145 2011/03/28:10:30:00 cutoff; r branch])
   Neon Glow 12.0
   Note Paper 12.0
   NTSC Colors 12.1 (12.1x20110328 [20110328.r.145 2011/03/28:10:30:00 cutoff; r branch])
   Ocean Ripple 12.0
   OpenEXR 12.0.2
   Paint Daubs 12.0
   Palette Knife 12.0
   Patchwork 12.0
   Paths to Illustrator 12.0.2
   PCX 12.1 (12.1x20110328 [20110328.r.145 2011/03/28:10:30:00 cutoff; r branch])
   Photocopy 12.0
   Photoshop 3D Engine 12.1 (12.1x20110328 [20110328.r.145 2011/03/28:10:30:00 cutoff; r branch])
   Picture Package Filter 12.1 (12.1x20110328 [20110328.r.145 2011/03/28:10:30:00 cutoff; r branch])
   Pinch 12.0.2
   Pixar 12.1 (12.1x20110328 [20110328.r.145 2011/03/28:10:30:00 cutoff; r branch])
   Plaster 12.0
   Plastic Wrap 12.0
   PNG 12.0.2
   Pointillize 12.0.2
   Polar Coordinates 12.0.2
   Portable Bit Map 12.1 (12.1x20110328 [20110328.r.145 2011/03/28:10:30:00 cutoff; r branch])
   Poster Edges 12.0
   Radial Blur 12.0.2
   Radiance 12.1 (12.1x20110328 [20110328.r.145 2011/03/28:10:30:00 cutoff; r branch])
   Range 12.1 (12.1x20110328 [20110328.r.145 2011/03/28:10:30:00 cutoff; r branch])
   Read Watermark 4.0
   Reticulation 12.0
   Ripple 12.0.2
   Rough Pastels 12.0
   Save for Web & Devices 12.0
   ScriptingSupport 12.1
   Shear 12.0.2
   Skewness 12.1 (12.1x20110328 [20110328.r.145 2011/03/28:10:30:00 cutoff; r branch])
   Smart Blur 12.0.2
   Smudge Stick 12.0
   Solarize 12.1 (12.1x20110328 [20110328.r.145 2011/03/28:10:30:00 cutoff; r branch])
   Spatter 12.0
   Spherize 12.0.2
   Sponge 12.0
   Sprayed Strokes 12.0
   Stained Glass 12.0
   Stamp 12.0
   Standard Deviation 12.1 (12.1x20110328 [20110328.r.145 2011/03/28:10:30:00 cutoff; r branch])
   Sumi-e 12.0
   Summation 12.1 (12.1x20110328 [20110328.r.145 2011/03/28:10:30:00 cutoff; r branch])
   Targa 12.0.2
   Texturizer 12.0
   Tiles 12.0.2
   Torn Edges 12.0
   Twirl 12.0.2
   U3D 12.1 (12.1x20110328 [20110328.r.145 2011/03/28:10:30:00 cutoff; r branch])
   Underpainting 12.0
   Vanishing Point 12.0
   Variance 12.1 (12.1x20110328 [20110328.r.145 2011/03/28:10:30:00 cutoff; r branch])
   Variations 12.1 (12.1x20110328 [20110328.r.145 2011/03/28:10:30:00 cutoff; r branch])
   Water Paper 12.0
   Watercolor 12.0
   Wave 12.0.2
   Wavefront|OBJ 12.1 (12.1x20110328 [20110328.r.145 2011/03/28:10:30:00 cutoff; r branch])
   WIA Support 12.1 (12.1x20110328 [20110328.r.145 2011/03/28:10:30:00 cutoff; r branch])
   Wind 12.0.2
   Wireless Bitmap 12.1 (12.1x20110328 [20110328.r.145 2011/03/28:10:30:00 cutoff; r branch])
   ZigZag 12.0.2
Plug-ins that failed to load: NONE
Flash:
   Mini Bridge
   Kuler
   Access CS Live
   CS Review
Installed TWAIN devices: NONE

Lightroom 4 color problem

I imported tiff images into Lightroom 4 that were scanned by DigMyPics.com. The color of the images look good on the Windows 7 photo viewer. It looks horrible in Lightroom 4. My monitor is callibrated, the import develope setting is set to "none" , the box is unchecked "apply auto tone adjustments". I think that the windows viewer is showing the accurate color of the scan and LR is not. I don't think DigMyPics would send this awful color. What could the issue be?

monitor NEC 2690 wuxi
eye-one display 2
Original message
From: twenty_one
To: [email protected]
Received: 2/10/2013 12:30:42 PM
Subject: lightroom 4 color problem
Re: lightroom 4 color problem
created by twenty_one in Photoshop Lightroom - View the full discussion
Yes, that certainly looks like a problem with the Lightroom rendering. Skin tones and red in general is clearly off, while Windows Photo Viewer looks good.
I'm almost certain this is a problem with the monitor profile. As troubleshooting, try to set sRGB as monitor profile (or Adobe RGB if your monitor is wide gamut), and see if the difference persists. But try to recalibrate first.
What calibrator and what monitor?
Please note that the Adobe Forums do not accept email attachments. If you want to embed a screen image in your message please visit the thread in the forum to embed the image at http://forums.adobe.com/message/5062403#5062403
Replies to this message go to everyone subscribed to this thread, not directly to the person who posted the message. To post a reply, either reply to this email or visit the message page: http://forums.adobe.com/message/5062403#5062403
To unsubscribe from this thread, please visit the message page at http://forums.adobe.com/message/5062403#5062403. In the Actions box on the right, click the Stop Email Notifications link.
Start a new discussion in Photoshop Lightroom by email or at Adobe Community
For more information about maintaining your forum email notifications please go to http://forums.adobe.com/message/2936746#2936746.

A color problem in Apple's publishing App

I was wondering if you could help me with this problem，I really need some help，and here it is：
There is a Color problem in Mac publishing applications like Pages and Keynote，including iBooks Author，which really confuse me a lot。
When you use a certain color space（sRGB IEC61966-2.1 in this case）to create some colors with Apps like Illustrator CS6，Indesign CS6 & Photoshop CS6 etc. ，they look totally fine。BUT when you use iBooks Author （V2.0）to create the very same color with the very same color space，colors still look fine in the color panel，and here comes the problem：they look totally lousy in the actual document！！In fact，they look much lighter and faded。（See Image 1&2）
Above：Image 1
Above：Image 2
And this is also terrible with photos you import。（See Image 3）
Above：Image 3
Please tell me what I can do to solve this problem。I know maybe this is some sort of “basic” and “general” knowledge，but I really need your help。And I can't thank you enough if you can provide some effective solutions。

As far as I can see, the colour pallet and how colours are seen in any app on YOUR machine will depend on the computers System Preferences>Displays>Colour - choose your preferred setting.
I suggest first that you ensure that your colour profile settings are the same ( as your computer) in whatever Adobe application or in fact any outside image processor you use.
Creating or using a colour profile in Adobe and having a different profile on your system - will tend to give different colour hues.
A point also to remember is whatever you set up and is transferred to your product... when seen on an iPad may well be totally different again due to peculiarities and contrast / brighness setting of the iPad user.

Color Problems???

Every time I export, save, or save for web the resulting image is lighter than the one in illustrator/photoshop. I have tried to search the web but haven't found anything that works. It just stopped working overnight.
Here are some things I have done.
1. I have verified that my adobe apps are in sync via bridge (North American General Purpose 2) adobe sRGB 2.1 and US web coated SWOP v2
2. My mac color profile is set at color lcd (this is the default and worked fine up until yesterday)
3. ran the verify command in colorsync and have this error:
Searching for profiles...
Checking 53 profiles...
/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Color/Profiles/Recommended/CoatedFOGRA27.icc
Tag 'desc': Tag size is not correct.
Verify done - found 1 bad profile.
I tried to use the repair command but it fails, so I downloaded and replaced the icc profile from adobe but the error persists.
My guess is that an update from apple or adobe broke the color setup that was working or some file is corrupted.
I am running Mac osx 10.5.2 (completely updated) and my CS3 is also updated to the latest. 2 gigs of ram and 2.2 ghz
This is very annoying as it has completely shut down my projects!
Any help you can give will be greatly appreciated.
--Craig

Okay, Craig... the color change you are seeing is actually appropriate given the way you are working, I only wonder why you did not see it previously.
Here's the explanation, and a fix.
Your default monitor profile on any Apple product has a 1.8 gamma, but the sRGB working space has a gamma of 2.2. While you are creating your files in the sRGB working space in Illustrator or Photoshop, they are color managed with the proper profile and so displaying properly.
When you save the file with no color profile, you are seeing it through your monitor profile, which if it is an Apple supplied profile has a gamma of 1.8. Viewing the images through a profile with the wrong gamma for that image will change their apparent lightness or darkness.
Try this. Go into System Preferences, and hit the displays button. Now hit the Color tab. Hit the Calibrate button.
Run through all the options until you get to the section where you select a target gamma. At this point, select 2.2 instead of 1.8.
Continue through the options, but don't make any further changes. At the end, save this profile as Color LCD 2.2.
Keep this profile selected, and resume your work. You should find that the images no longer appear lighter when you save them without a profile, because you are now viewing them with the correct gamma.
This will actually work better with your external monitor than with your laptop display, because laptop displays are so variable. But it still should fix the problem on both displays, as long as you change both profiles.

Photoshop Motion Workspace. Rendering videos.

This is probably a pretty simple one but I'm not a video editor.
Ive played round with the photoshop motion editor CC and the result is about a forty something MB file in psd format before rendering out through Adobe Media Encoder.
File/Export/Render to video gives me enormous file sizes on a two minute test video.
For example, (sorry the insert image seems to be greyed out in this forum so no screenshots)
H246, Low Quality, 1920x1080, 28.126fps, aspect + Document (1.0) gives me a 121MB file
I've tried every combination varying the H246/Quicktime, image size, quality, mobile phone and tablets presets and the smallest file size Ive seen to date is 14MB ... on the two minute video.
There must be a way of getting rendered file sizes down to a few MB for you tube uploads and playing on phones and tablets and emailing? I was expecting to be able to dial in the videos physical pixel dimensions and file size, like one can when working with still images.
Can anyone tell me what I am missing?
Thanks

The presets for photoshop using h.264 encoded video's use quicktime for compressing the video. So you might find better codecs for quicktime from apple's site.
That said, I believe that the media encoder has a larger variety of formats and codecs with it. I was told though that the media encoder has some of it formats and codecs locked to certain adobe apps. In other words you need to have access to those apps on your system for those formats and codecs to be available to you.
The presets in media encoder will set some of the options for you like the frames per second and resolution. But just because you use a preset, does not mean you can not alter its settings.
All the compression for an mpeg movie does is looks at it color values and sees what it can throw out. It then will try to match as many frames as possible throwing out duplicates. At some point the file can not be compressed any more. Or I should say without degrading the video to a point where it is noticeable to the viewer. WMV files are well known for going to far. Some videos you can not make out what is in the clip.
There is one more alternative for compressing file time, reducing the over all play time, by clipping out portions of the video.
So It boils down to how do you want to compromise to get that file size down. Compress more until jpeg artifacts start showing up, reduce resolution(SD is probably as low as I would go for web, but for phones, go lower) , reduce frames per seconds (15fps for web 10-12fps for phones), or clip the video(where ever you can loose valuable footage).
What ever you choose, it must be done on a copy, as all of this is destructive. In that once done no way to get it back. Keep all originals in full quality, uncompressed, unedited form if possible.
Also keep in mind h264 is an mpeg format and is a lossy format which means it needs to be the final format for sharing as opening and saving degrades the quality.

Photoshop / Indesign / Acrobat / - color match ?

I'm printing a color chart using CS4, a Mac (10.5.7), and my inkjet (HP B8850)
If Adobe and Apple made the color managment corectly, wich i assume they did, i should be able to print the same TIFF file correctly with the same colors in all the CS app. To print a chart, you're supposed to turn CM off.
So i printed the chart in Photoshop. Then i created a document where i import the TIFF file in Indesign, and choosed 'emulate indesign 2.0…'…
After experience a lot of trouble, i've understand there was a problem with Indesign CS3/CS4 and i have to choose to print as bitmap in the print settings.
See here : http://forums.adobe.com/thread/285075?tstart=0
So now i have a chart that looks exactly like the one from Photoshop. Great.
I should be able to get the same result with Acrobat Pro (9).
So ive exported my Indesign doc with no profils. Open it in Acrobat, goin to the print settings, advanced setttings and in the profil section i choose to not use profiles. I use the same settings from my printer than before. So i print and i don't get the right result (looks exactly the same as my wrong outputs from Indesign before using Bitmap !). So i felt like tryin to print as bitmap as well in Acrobat. But hell, the colors are completly different again, and quite faded.
Did i made something wrong ?
I wonder why all the color settings are so different thru all those apps ? I thought there were using the same color managment now ?!

Sorry just tripped across this thread, but here is an answer incase anyone else finds this.
Short Answer is they do, Adobe ACE. Longer Answer is you use Adobe Bridge to keep the CS Suite in sync with each other.
OS X Instructions, Sorry no Windows, should be close to the same.
To Add Photoshop Settings to all Suite Applications:
Open: Photoshop
Click; Edit --> Color Settings (cmd+shift+K)
Set your color setting the way you want them. Click Save
Save your Color Settings in: "yourusername"/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Color/Settings/ Give it a name and description as you see fit.
Open: Adobe Bridge
Click; Edit --> Creative Suite Color Settings (cmd+shift+K) make sure your settings are in the list and selected then click Apply, it will now be available to everything in the Suite.
Your Color Settings will now be synchronized
That should solve your color inconsistancy problem moving from Application to Application within the Suite.
-Ryan

Color problem, black 'noise' on specific colors

Dear adobe users,
At the moment I have a problem with a few specific colors within photoshop CS6, on top of my original colors you'll see a black noise effect. Some effect you'll suspect when you've turned on a different color mode. But i'm working with the normal RGB/8 color modes which shouldn't be a problem. If i save this document to a JPEG and open it with Windows Preview, the color problems dissapear. Funny thing is, if I get my color picker and hover on a black spot on my original document, the right color shows up in my color picker and not the black color I see on my screen.
What can cause this problem? Tried google to find the problem, but no luck so far. Driving me crazy as this isnt really working for me. Thanks for the help so far!
Printscreen of my problem:
Original document (jpeg):
Regards
Marcel

I'm guessing you have an ATI video card and have updated to Catalyst 13.1 (or gotten the WHQL driver through Windows Update).
Catalyst 13.1 has a problem properly running Photoshop CS6's GPU-based Adobe Color Engine. Basically if the red channel reaches 0, all color will be blacked out.
A workaround that retains most of your GPU functionality but avoids the problem is this: Change the Drawing Mode to Basic in the Advanced Photoshop GPU preferences. Restart Photoshop after making the change.
A possibly more acceptable workaround is to completely uninstall Catalyst 13.1, then seek out Catalyst 12.8, specifically, on Adobe's web site. 12.8 works quite well in Advanced mode.
-Noel

Printing Color Chart (LR3.2) causes some patch color problems !

Hi to all,
Printing Color Chart with Lightroom 3.2 causes problems with some Patches Color !
Color is not uniform, highlighted in the surround for some blue and green patches.
Printing the same chart in Photoshop CS5 causes no problem at all !
Configuration:
New installation (15 days).
Windows 7 Pro (French language), 64 bit.
i7-760 on P7h55 with 6Gb of RAM.
Lightroom 3.2 (French language).
Photoshop CS5 (English language), tested with and without new update.
Canon Selphy CP800 with latest driver.
Any idea ?!
Have a Nice Day.
Thierry

Can you post a copy of the image that you're trying to print?

Color problem in CS3

I recently had to replace my motherboard and video card (with identiacal cards). This may or may not be related to my problem.
My Photoshop installation now has a definate magenta cast. I am working in sRGB with my color settings set to North America General Purpose 2.
If I set my preview to "monitor" (Samsung SyncMaster 243T) the colors appear correct, but returning to the native program shifts by colors back to the extreme magenta shift.
I can also view the correct colors when using "Save for web or devices"
My monitor is calibrated and I can view images correctly outside of Photoshop.
Any suggestions?

Thank you both for your suggestions.
Just for fun, I recalibrated but got the same results.
However...
I am using a Radeon X800GT video card that has two ports. I had not set up the second monitor yet and didn't have it turned on. When I turned it on, I got the "subscript out of range" warning suggesting that I was trying to send a screen resolution that the monitor couldn't handle.
I used an ATI utility to reset the secondary monitor to the correct resolution. Then when I opened Photoshop, the colors were not correct!
Apparantely, there was a conflict in the video card that was spilling over to affect Photoshop.
Getting the screen resolutions happy on both of my monitors fixed the Photoshop color problem.
Thanks again.

Photoshop - Motion - DVDSP Color Problem

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for