color issues - what am I doing wrong?

[RRitch]

I recently bought a spyder 2 and calibrated my monitor. The colors look great in CS3 now when I am editing. The problem is that if I look at the pictures outside of CS3, or I try to print them they come out warm and over saturated. also if you select proof colors and select the monitor profile, it looks like it does when I look at them outside of CS3 i.e Windows picture viewer, etc. Also the print is pretty close to what it looks like on the screen when viewed outside of CS3. At first I thought that maybe I did soemthing wrong when I calibrated, so I went back and did it again, but I get the exact same reults. Does anyone have any ideas what might be going on and how to fix this? Any help would be appreciated.

[tim]

Make sure your images are converted to sRgb before you use them in any other program. Also have a read of this thread (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=296149) :)

[RRitch]

Make sure your images are converted to sRgb before you use them in any other program. Also have a read of this thread (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=296149) :)

I am using sRGB as my working profile both in CS3 and ACR. I have also read that thread a few times, and I am still not clear what I am doing wrong.

[dirt lover]

Are your files you exported to jpeg and working on in Photoshop, srgb or another profile, like Adobe RGB 1998. In photoshop, go to Image > Mode > Convert to Profile. It should say source profile in the top of the window, where it will tell you the image's profile.

[gcogger]

What you're seeing is quite normal. Photoshop implements colour management and therefore knows how to display the images correctly, using the monitor profile. The other things you are using to view the image do not implement colour management, do not use the monitor profile, and do not display colours correctly. When you tell Photoshop to proof using the monitor profile, Photoshop displays the images the same way as other apps (i.e. incorrectly).

Usually, making sure the image is in sRGB minimises the differences, but there's no guarantee how close it will be. If you're seeing a very large difference, it's possble you've calibrated the monitor to an inappropriate colour temperature (6500K is the standard). It's possible, however, that what you're seeing now is as close as it's going to get.

Fundamentally, to see the colours correctly, you must use a colour managed application.

[RRitch]

Everyone, thanks for all of the input. I have calibrated my monitor again, and this time it is closer. furthermore on Kodaks web site they have the recommended settings for specific printer/paper combinations. Once I set the printer for the paper I was using the print is almost a perfect match to what I see in CS3. And it looks almost the same when I look at it on the web in Firefox (no color management) and Safari for Windows (color managed).

Here is the picture that I have been working with. Can you guys tell me how the colors look to you. At first I was seeing a pretty bad red tint, but now it seems much better to me.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1376/1385797269_abc31fdb86.jpg

[René Damkot]

Looks okay. Bit "typical ACR" skintone. (yellowish, pinkish, whatever), but not what I'ld call a bad cast.

[dekalbSTEEL]

A bit off topic, but what are you trying to say at the bottom?

You're(You are) Families Everything....or Your Family's Everything?

the color looks ok to me. Jon

[RRitch]

A bit off topic, but what are you trying to say at the bottom?

You're(You are) Families Everything....or Your Family's Everything?

the color looks ok to me. Jon

Just realized that I messed it up. It is supposed to be Your Families Everything. Thanks for pointing that out. Guess I am gonna have to do it again.