Photoshop Help

[Springheel]

I decided to finally get with the times and updated my PS5.5 to PS7. I've been having a bit of a problem though. The gamma when I have PS7 open is higher than everything else on my monitor, so that when I view images in other applications, they are much darker.

 

I had this problem with 5.5 at one point too, and fixed it by going into RGB colour management and clicking off the "Use Monitor Compensation" box (or something close to that; I forget the exact wording.

 

I can't find any such option in PS7 though. Anyone know where I would find that option, or something like it?

[jay pettitt]

Unlike 5.5 there is no colour calibration wizard in photoshop 7.

 

Setup is achieved with a combination of Adobe Gamma (found not in photoshop, but in your PC's control panel) and the color settings dialogue available from photoshop's Edit menu.

 

alternatively install linux and the Gimp.

Edited October 24, 2004 by jay pettitt

[Springheel]

Unlike 5.5 there is no colour calibration wizard in photoshop 7.

 

That's ok, this option wasn't in the wizard anyway. It was under the RGB colour calibration menu.

 

The problem is that PS seems to want to make the gamma higher on everything. In PS5.5, telling it not to compensate for the monitor worked. But I can't find the similar option in PS7. Seeing as I don't know what PS7 is doing to make everything brighter, I don't really know how to make things look the way they are supposed to. But I can pull the same image up in both PS5.5 and 7, and side by side you can see 7 is much brighter.

[jay pettitt]

Did you try adobe gamma from the control panel?

Edited October 25, 2004 by jay pettitt

[Springheel]

Well I've run that before to calibrate my monitor and PS5.5, but I don't want to change the way my monitor looks, or any other application for that matter. PS7 seems to be using a different series of settings from everything else, and I'm not sure where they're coming from.

[Darkness_Falls]

Yeah, I'm not sure. Maybe see if the Help file says anything about Gamma adjustments, if you haven't already? C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop\Help. Does PS7 come with Adobe ImageReady? Maybe the gama settings are only in that portion of things.

 

I remember that feature being in PS5, but I'm not seeing it in CS either.

[god_is_my_goldfish]

What kind of graphics card are you using as well? I believe that nvidia's allow you to adjust gamma per application as well as the adobe gamma control.

[jay pettitt]

You need to run Adobe Gamma again Spars (I think anyway, I use gimp)

Photoshop talks to Adobe Gamma behind your back...

 

Once you've done that click on photoshop's Edit menu and select Colour Settings. Its all in there....

Edited October 25, 2004 by jay pettitt