Help with Color Problem with Photoshop and ZoomBrowser

[seanspeng]

Could someone please help me with this?

I have been working with Pekka's LS 3.42. It worked fine before. But recently I found that the color in Photoshop 7 window and the color in Canon ZoomBrowser for the same picture look very different!

The color of the picture displayed in PS 7 looks normal, but the same file's color displayed in Canon ZoomBrowser looks very pale and light. And when I try to publish that picture to the web, the color displayed on web is the pale and light version from ZoomBrowser.

I am really confused 'cause it doesn't make sense to apply the AfterShave several times (>5) to get ZoomBrowser's color right.

PLEASE help me with this. Is this a problem of COLOR MANAGEMENT? Any direction would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks a million!

[D60wannabe]

Sean,

I'm not sure this is the answer or not but I will tell you what worked for me. I was using the LS for my G2 shots and found out it is not even for the G2! Go figure:) The LS process did make favorable results and I will continue to use it. I had the same problem with my photos (They looked great on the monitor but washed out on the printer.). Anyway, what I did to fix my problem was: 1.) Ran the "Normal Sharpening with HQ" option 2.) Converted to Adobe RGB 3). Ran "Result to web JPEG This was the original workflow I used and got unsat. results. I then tried several different things but found this to work the best: 4.) Assigned the resulting TIFF the profile for my camera (Image--->Mode--->Assign profile. This for me fixed everything and my output has been awesome ever since:):):) Hope you get it figured out....it's been several days of frustrating fun here for me...oh well! That's why we do it right?!?!

Paul in Wisconsin

[seanspeng]

Paul, Thank you so much for your reply and help!

I haven't tried printing myself yet. My problem is not the color with the printer & monitor. It is that the color of same picture/file looks quite different when it is opened in two PROGRAMS:

PS7 (normal) and Canon ZoomBrowser (much lighter).

I spent a lot of time today trying configure my ADOBE GAMMA setting. However, I don't think this is a cause. I will switch to BreezeBrowser and see if the problem persists.

Can you think of any other reasons? This is really odd.

I am new to this field. But for your earlier posting regarding the Printout color problem, you might find the following two threads helpful:


http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=3242

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=3330#14274

Thanks again so much for your response!

Sean

[seanspeng]

Thank you so much for your help. I think I understand the issue more now. But still have further questions:

1. What profile did you set in the Color Management for Display in Control Panel? sRGB or Adobe RGB 1998??

2. Here is how I found the problem. I shot in Raw file and download into ZoomBrowser. I use two different method to process them and compare the effects:

A). I convert the raw file into non-linear files in ZoomBrowser and no further action. The pictures look good.

B). I convert the raw file to Linear file and use Pekka's LinearSharpening 3.42 to further convert in Photoshop (AdobeRGB 199. The pictures look so pale so I apply AFTERSHAVE (Deeper color) three times to get color close to the pictures in A). But when I reopen these pictures in ZoomBrowser, them look pale again. And if I reopen them in photoshop, they look good. I am confused since they are the same files generated under process B).

3. What kind of profile did you assign in your STEP 4)? Do I need to download it somewhere?

Thank you for your patience and help!

Sean




D60wannabe wrote:
Anyway, what I did to fix my problem was: 1.) Ran the "Normal Sharpening with HQ" option 2.) Converted to Adobe RGB 3). Ran "Result to web JPEG This was the original workflow I used and got unsat. results. I then tried several different things but found this to work the best: 4.) Assigned the resulting TIFF the profile for my camera (Image--->Mode--->Assign profile. This for me fixed everything and my output has been awesome ever since:):):) Hope you get it figured out....it's been several days of frustrating fun here for me...oh well! That's why we do it right?!?!

Paul in Wisconsin