Computer Graphics with Photoshop - Elements

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Elements - Colour Working Space

Mardon

2006-08-02, 10:24 am

I posted this question a week ago in adobe.photoshop.elements but got
no response. Can anyone here help?

Subject: Colour Management - Colour Working Space Question
From: Mardon <mgb72mgb@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: adobe.photoshop.elements

I'm asking this question for my sister who uses Elements 2.0.2 but
does not have access to this newsgroup. I use CS2, and I'm not
familiar with Elements, so I don't know where to tell her to look in
Elements to change settings. It sounds to me like she has a problem
with her colour working space not matching her original images. She
doesn't get a warning prompt when an imported image does not match
the working space (like I would get in CS2). If she opens a non-
colour managed image, or an sRGB image, in Elements, the colours look
washed out compared to what she sees if she opens the same image in
her web browser. If she opens that same image in Corel Photopaint
12.0.0.536, it looks just like the image looks in her web browser.
Can someone provide instructions for how she can configure Elements
2.0 to solve this problem.? TIA

Marcel Thériault

2006-09-24, 6:15 pm

Have been using Element 2 ( also PS 6,7 CS and CS2) along Photopaint 8 and
10 but I do most of my photo retouching ( professional) with Element 2 and
the only thing I could find about her problem is (If she can) reinstalling
Element 2, fixing Gamma ( Control Panel) and it
should be OK unless her monitor is way out in color.
Marcel

"Mardon" <mgb72mgb@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:Xns980CDFEE16989mgb72mgbhotmailcom@140.99.99.130...
> I posted this question a week ago in adobe.photoshop.elements but got
> no response. Can anyone here help?
>
> Subject: Colour Management - Colour Working Space Question
> From: Mardon <mgb72mgb@hotmail.com>
> Newsgroups: adobe.photoshop.elements
>
> I'm asking this question for my sister who uses Elements 2.0.2 but
> does not have access to this newsgroup. I use CS2, and I'm not
> familiar with Elements, so I don't know where to tell her to look in
> Elements to change settings. It sounds to me like she has a problem
> with her colour working space not matching her original images. She
> doesn't get a warning prompt when an imported image does not match
> the working space (like I would get in CS2). If she opens a non-
> colour managed image, or an sRGB image, in Elements, the colours look
> washed out compared to what she sees if she opens the same image in
> her web browser. If she opens that same image in Corel Photopaint
> 12.0.0.536, it looks just like the image looks in her web browser.
> Can someone provide instructions for how she can configure Elements
> 2.0 to solve this problem.? TIA
>
>

Mike Russell

2006-09-24, 6:15 pm

> "Mardon" <mgb72mgb@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:Xns980CDFEE16989mgb72mgbhotmailcom@140.99.99.130...
....[color=darkred]

If her colors are looking washed out, have her set her color prefs
(ctrl-shift-K) to Limited color management. This will cause elements to
default to sRGB. My guess is she has it set to Full color management, which
defaults to Adobe RGB, hence the faded colors. The remaining choice, No
color management, will duplicate the behavior of her web browser, and is
certainly a viable choice as well.

There is no warning dialog for a color mismatch. Elements will honor any
embedded profile. If there is no embedded profile, it will silently assign
it's concept of the default color space.
--
Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com/forum/