Colours too red in PTE but OK in CS5

[Ian Cartwright]

My nice subtle skin tones, especially reds in ears and shadow areas appear saturated in PTE. I am working in sRGB. I haven't noticed it before, so I can't work out the cause. Any suggestions?

[davegee]

Check Edit_Colour Settings to make sure that it is not changing from sRGB to something else without a warning?Post a JPEG so that someone can check it for you?

DG

[Ian Cartwright]

Hi Dave,

Will do as you suggest, but don't know where to find colour settings. Edit file opens the image in Photoshop where it looks fine. Help appreciated.

Ian

[cjdnzl]

Hi Dave,

Will do as you suggest, but don't know where to find colour settings. Edit file opens the image in Photoshop where it looks fine. Help appreciated.

Ian

Check the metadata for the image and ensure it is set for sRGB. There is another thread in this forum with a similar problem and they found their images were unspecified.

Colin

[davegee]

In ps.

In the menu click on EDIT and in the drop down colour settings is at the bottom.

Are you using anything in addition to (before) ps?

DG

[Ian Cartwright]

Thanks for the suggestions, guys. I was looking for something I did wrong or haven't done in PTE and you are wanting me to check the original image in Photoshop. It has sRGB assigned. sRGB is my normal working space. I have attached a word document with both screenshots for comparison.

I seem to recall coming across a desaturate the images option in PTE some time ago, but I couldn't find it again. Perhaps it was for DVD output, and I only want an exe file in this case.

Is there nowhere in PTE to specify the colour space?

[fh1805]

The last was a jpeg, but I still can't see it. Can you access the image?

Ian,

It's a three step process:

Browse to select the file on your computer that you want to attach

"Attach This File" button to upload that file to the forum server

"Add to Post" link (over at far right) - to insert the html code in the post

regards,

Peter

[Ian Cartwright]

Thanks, Peter. I was about to say I had done exactly as you said, but I mustn't have, as I can now see the jpeg is there. So, at last, something which demonstrates the difference in my images when viewed in PS and PTE. I want them to look as they do in PS

Ian

[davegee]

Ian,

Now add the original JPEG (or one giving the same problem) to a post in the same way?

Maximum size 3Mb.

DG

[Ian Cartwright]

As requested, here is the original, which also looks too red in Windows Explorer. This suggests, I suspect, that there is indeed something happening to it in its transition through Photoshop, or even Lightroom.

Appreciating your help.

[xahu34]

Ian,

Is your monitor calibrated with color profile different from sRGB?

Regards,

Xaver

[Ian Cartwright]

Duplicated posts so removed one. This removed the jpeg, so here it is again. The monitor is calibrated using an X-rite I-1 sensitometer, which I think means it is not resulting in a sRGB profile

[xahu34]

Ian,

I am using an Eizo monitor set to sRGB. On my system, your image (with profile sRGB) is always to be seen in the rather red version: with PTE, with Photoshop, with XnView (color management turned on or off). So the red looking presentation is the correct one in this case. Maybe that your image has been transformed from some other color space (perhaps AdobeRGB) to sRGB in an incorrect way (replacing the profile without changing the color values of the pixels). I wonder why Photoshop (which is a color managed application) on your machine shows it differently.

A remark on PTE: PTE is not color manged; look here and follow the links.

Regards,

Xaver

[Ian Cartwright]

Thanks for taking the trouble Xaver. I shoot raw in Adobe 98. I have an Eizo monitor also.

I am not sure what I can do now. Perhaps I can play around with a colour chart to see which version looks correct. The portrait is not the best image to use as the elements are so variable and subject to taste. I shall be installing CS6 soon, so I may be back to square one anyway.

[Ghulya]

No we did not, I don't make absolutly "calibrate" (my) monitor, because after several "sensor" I think paraphernalia is, literaly, a scam.

The problem is solved when, here case offset printing, you are sure to work with the same service or typography. Only after you have tried and tried, you can "calibrate" the colors. The thing is long and I stop here and I’m not wizard...

Viceversa, in PTE, about color rendering to exe or video, it is prosy. Adobe 98-99-2000... sRGB, hyper ultra et etc ? Make non sense.

Please takes an image, scaling and you create four duplicates at same page resolution (1280x720 etc.) each of these (thumbnails) images you make a saturation step; first image X, second -XX etc. Assigned value that best fits in PTE, will be the "focus" of saturation limit for usage with (all images) in Project that you want.

Of course in addition to Pte, you have the color (problem) of the light and the lamp of projector, and the screen (other problem). Last but not least vision that everyone has of the "color". Saturated or less saturated so. A little Hell for all photograhers, viedomakers, ptemaker…etc.

Da Campos

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