Severe color shift from Org to PSE5 - How?

[kevmiami]

ok, sure this is my fault - have been playing with settings over last several days, inlcuding experimenting with Huey. The same photo looks great - bright reds on my desktop background and also looks good in the organizer. but when I open it in PSE5, the bright red turns yellow-orange. Not sure what would change color as soon as photo is opened? Thx for help; had today set aside to print out bunch of photos.

[TonyW]

Hard to tell without knowing which settings you were playing with or what you were changing with the Huey but it sounds like your editor color management has got messed up (I think Organizer and Editor are handled differently so you can mess up one and not the other)

I think I'd be inclined to reset preferences in the Editor and see if that fixes it - and maybe recalibrate with the Huey. But I'm guessing a bit.

Tony

[kevmiami]

Tony - Thank you for the quick response - Issue is Color settings. Clicking on any of the other 3 color options other than "No Color Management" results on the red turning yellow-orange. Weird - Not understood. Thx

[TonyW]

That would fit - you're telling the Editor not to color manage which might look OK but isn't the best choice. Sounds like something has gone wrong with the conversion from the document profile to the Huey display profile. Did you play around with the Display settings? Control Panel>Display>Settings>Advanced>Color Management and you should see the Huey profile associated with the device. If it is it may mean that you you've generated a bad Huey profile for some reason and you can try reprofiling.

If that doesn't work then I'd still try the reset preferences approach:

Start Elements so the Editor will come up. If you have it set for the organizer you may need to change which part of the program loads on start up from Window>Welcome

Then open Editor and immediately hold Ctrl+Alt+Shift. You should get a box asking if want to reset your preferences. Answer yes. If the box does not pop up, close Editor and try again, it's hard to catch things just right.

Tony

[kevmiami]

Tony,

Good advice again - Using Ctrl-Alt-Shft reset prefences and fixed the issue. Reprofiling the Huey, brings the issue back & to the org as well. Trying to use the Huey on Dell Latitude which is also driving second CRT as extended desktop. Using Mobile 945GM Express chipset. Thx again, Kevin

[TonyW]

Can't explain that one - I have a Huey and calibrated both my desktop CRT and my laptop LCD and it worked perfectly. I suspect that two monitors hooked to the same computer might well confuse things but no ideas how you could get round it.

Tony

[Chuck S.]

Can't explain that one - I have a Huey and calibrated both my desktop CRT and my laptop LCD and it worked perfectly. I suspect that two monitors hooked to the same computer might well confuse things but no ideas how you could get round it.

Tony

Tony, I faced that issue with this laptop, which I calibrated standalone with a Pantone Spyder. At work, I use a docking station and a Dell LCD monitor. The colors aren't the same, so I decided to......punt (as we say in US football!). I wasn't going to mess up the laptop for the other one, which I rarely if ever use for photo editing.