bridge, photoshop, google chrome, keep changing color profile

I just rebuilt my mbp with an ssd and so far I love it but after calibrating my screen with my spyder4pro when I launch bridge, photoshop or chrome it changes my color profile and makes it very cold with a blue cast. how do I fix this? what could cause it?

not sure if it was happening before I switched and reinstalled osx but if it was I didn't notice it.

hopefully someone can help

hope I posted this in the right section I searched and most color profile things seem to be posted here.

What do you mean it changes your color profile? Do you mean your screen looks cooler when those apps are launched?

Once those apps are launched do all apps look cool? On windows a loader runs when the OS starts, that changes the screen's look, does that happen on mac?

everything looks cooler. the apps, the background wall pappers, the title bars, everything. If I look at my wallpaper when one of these apps are running and then close it the color goes back to normal.

nope dont think that happens on mac

I think one of the mac guys will have to help you with this one.

That's very weird…

Check in your Display Prefs what OSX thinks the monitor profile is before starting PS, and after.
Also check what PS thinks the monitor profile is:
In your color settings, check here (do not change the color settings to use your monitor profile as working space, just check)

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What MBP are you using? Does it have dual graphics cards? Have you tried to change this setting (i.e., uncheck the box) and recalibrated to see if the problem disappears?

I have never used my MBP in the dual graphics mode, so I am just guessing. The setting is supposed to use the lightweight, low-power processor for things like word processing and the high-power chip for graphics intensive apps. Does the display change appearance when you launch something like Word or some similar application that is supposedly not graphics intensive? If it does not change under these conditions, maybe this is the issue.

kirk

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René Damkot wrote in post #15012932
That's very weird…

Check in your Display Prefs what OSX thinks the monitor profile is before starting PS, and after.
Also check what PS thinks the monitor profile is:
In your color settings, check here (do not change the color settings to use your monitor profile as working space, just check)

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If any of these monitor profiles are different, I'd guess something is wrong with for instance permissions or ownership of the profiles…

the color profile does not actually change in osx the screen just gets a blue cast.
and in photoshop color settings the monitor profile is correct.

kirkt wrote in post #15013580
What MBP are you using? Does it have dual graphics cards? Have you tried to change this setting (i.e., uncheck the box) and recalibrated to see if the problem disappears?

I have never used my MBP in the dual graphics mode, so I am just guessing. The setting is supposed to use the lightweight, low-power processor for things like word processing and the high-power chip for graphics intensive apps. Does the display change appearance when you launch something like Word or some similar application that is supposedly not graphics intensive? If it does not change under these conditions, maybe this is the issue.

kirk

I have a mid 2010 15" i5 with NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 256 MB I unchecked the box but so far it hasn't seemed to change anything

oh and i have not installed work yet but text editors do not change color profile the only apps i have found that do are bridge, chrome, and ps

With the box now unchecked, recalibrate and make a new profile and set this as your display profile. Then see if the change still happens. In other words, make sure you are calibrating and profiling the high power card, not the low power one. I'm not sure how profiling is handled in this dual mode system when auto switching is enabled. Perhaps when it was enabled you were profiling the low power card, and auto switching changed over to the unprofiled high power card for your graphics stuff, causing the problem

With auto switching turned off, hopefully the number of variables will be decreased a little bit and you can get to the bottom of this or at least eliminate this auto switching thing as the cause and look somewhere else.

Kirk

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kirkt wrote in post #15014755
With the box now unchecked, recalibrate and make a new profile and set this as your display profile. Then see if the change still happens. In other words, make sure you are calibrating and profiling the high power card, not the low power one. I'm not sure how profiling is handled in this dual mode system when auto switching is enabled. Perhaps when it was enabled you were profiling the low power card, and auto switching changed over to the unprofiled high power card for your graphics stuff, causing the problem

With auto switching turned off, hopefully the number of variables will be decreased a little bit and you can get to the bottom of this or at least eliminate this auto switching thing as the cause and look somewhere else.

Kirk

after recalibrating it seems to have fixed my issue! thanks a lot this has been driving me nuts!

Grab yourself a cold one and do the victory dance!

kirk

Good thinking Kirk