Colour difference when viewing in PTE! [SOLVED]

[Photofanatic]

Hello

I have tried to get consisitency of colour balance between Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom and have achieved this by using an external monitor calibrator. However after I have spent a lot of time getting the correct 'blue' of some bridesmaids dresses in these 2 programs I then bring the images into PTE and the colour balance has gone out the window! The blue dresses are now more turquoise blue than what they should be! This is very frustrating - how can I get consistencency over all three programmes - I cant see any provision to tell PTE what colour profile to use although it is just the common SRGB. Can anyone help please?

Thanks

Joy

[Ray Groome]

Joy

I also experienced poor colours in PTE last year when I purchased a new high specification calibrated Dell monitor. The problem was resolved when I reset the colour space of the monitor to sRGB. When the monitor was set to a larger colour space the results in PTE were very poor- despite getting excellent results in Lightroom.

I understand this was due to there being no colour management built into PTE, whilst it is designed into the Adobe products.

Ray Groome

[davegee]

JPEGs for use in PTE projects MUST be sRGB to maintain the colours you see in PS regardless of your monitor calibration.

When saving a JPEG I created an action and use F4 to "Flatten the image, change the mode to 8 Bit and convert the colour profile (from ProPhoto RGB) to sRGB".

Alternatively, when using "Save for the Web" all of this is done automatically for you and in a "two up" configuration you can see how the image will look.

DG

[Photofanatic]

Thanks so much for that - after a bit of hunting I found that my photos were 'colour match RGB?' so I set up an action to convert them to SRGB and the colours are now ok in PTE!! Brilliant - thanks

JOy