Photoshop Color Settings, wat?

[Silvatooth]

Recently I've noticed a slight difference between the way colors are displayed in photoshop opposed to desktop display. I went to EDIT>Color Settings and changed my Working Space RBG profile to match my monitor's native RBG color settings.

This got rid of my initial problem where there was a difference in colors; however now everytime I open up a new document it asks me if I want to use the image's embedded color profile. I click no and tell it to discard any color profile changes, which does the trick - but I'm not sure if I'm doing the right thing.

Should I be using my monitor's native settings in photoshop?
Also, will photoshop always ask me if I want to use a different color profile everytime I open up a new document?

*edit - Yeah my biggest problem now is that everytime I open up a new document it will revert the color settings to SRBG IEC61966-2.1.
I want all of my documents and all of my new documents to always be set on my monitor's native resolution. jeez.

Thanks for the help.

[maderito]

You're going about this wrong:

A color space (sRGB, Adobe RGB) determines how RGB color number are interpreted. R=25 G=255 B=100 is a different color in Adobe RGB and sRGB. Your images consists of color numbers that are associated with a specific color space.

Your monitor has its own, unique color space which typically is similar to but not identical to sRGB, especially if you have a well calibrated monitor. It is definitely not Adobe RGB. In Photoshop, don't use the Monitor color space (Monitor RGB) to edit your images; they were captured in a different color space.

Your camera JPEG images can be either in either Adobe RGB or sRGB color space depending on your camera menu settings (standard=sRGB, Adobe RGB=the same). If you RAW process, you have these and other possible color spaces.

It's easiest to set your Photoshop working RGB color space to be the same as the camera (or RAW output) color space of your image.

If you choose to use Adobe RGB for image captures and PS working space (and there are good reasons to do so), you have to eventually convert it to sRGB (Image>Mode>Convert to Profile) before viewing it outside Photoshop (e.g. sharing it on the Web) since sRGB is the approximate color space of most monitors. Some, but not all, printers can take advantage of the additional colors in the Adobe RGB color gamut.

If you are strictly editing and viewing images on the Web, stick to sRGB. If you plan to do a lot of printing, consider Adobe RGB.

See this link (http://www.computer-darkroom.com/ps8-colour/ps8_1.htm) for more info.

[Silvatooth]

Okay that makes sense. But I'm still worried about editing pictures in sRGB and having them look very different to me out of photoshop. Should I try and make my monitor follow a different color setting so that its closer to sRGB? I'm real picky about having my documents look exactly right, and working under sRGB would render pics in a totally different color tint.

[scottbergerphoto]

Okay that makes sense. But I'm still worried about editing pictures in sRGB and having them look very different to me out of photoshop. Should I try and make my monitor follow a different color setting so that its closer to sRGB? I'm real picky about having my documents look exactly right, and working under sRGB would render pics in a totally different color tint.
Once you calibrate your monitor and save that as your default monitor profile, Windows will use that for all your applications. You don't change the color space of your monitor. Web applications are not color managed. That's why Woody recommended that as a last step in PS you convert the image color profile to sRGB. Adobe RGB tagged images can look washed out in a non color managed environment. That has nothing to do with your monitor profile.
Scott