Melly

I believe it's Nvidia 940MX (or at least that's what it says on my sticker on the laptop lol)

Damien, thank you for taking the time to help me with this, I apologize again, it's been a tough few weeks here, and I haven't been able to respond like I should.  I appreciate the time you have taken to help me sort this out! I will look into graphics cards and see what's out there.  Brand new laptop, though, so that sucks lol 

Thanks again! Much appreciated! 

I'm so sorry, Damien, it's been a week from hell. 

Graphics processor is off, definitely. Still the issue remains. 

Yes, it looks familiar to me, that I believe they went into those settings 

Yes, only in photoshop and only on that monitor. I'm completely perplexed. 

The nine other times, nothing happened, it stayed the same. 

32 minutes ago, Damien Symonds said:

So, what was the upshot of this?  Have you tried changing it back and forward any more times?  Was it just a fluke, or your imagination, or definitely a thing?

definitely wasn't imagination, it happened when we hooked it up to the tv, too (to see if it was maybe the monitor or monitor connection).  I just did it again back and forth ten or so times, the first time, it went to the same as I would see it in ACR. I was able to grab a screen shot of it (there was still a blacked out square from it loading or something?) but it went back when I clicked on the screen again after I saved the screenshot. 

No, just makes it more green. (forgive me for not replying immediately, life is busy today, I am getting back to you as soon as I possibly can. Mother came to town to visit, you must know how that can be) 

ok, done, done, and done.  Dumped the old datacolor folder, recalibrated and print is looking very similar to the image, print is slightly warmer and darker still. I need to get new prints done of more recent sessions.  Prints match contrast and vibrancy of the firefox window; the color isn't as intense in PS as in the print. 

I do not have pro lab prints in my hand of the example image. I have a couple others. when comparing, they do not match exactly, the color temperature is off slightly, images are warmer in print and slightly darker. I will work on fixing that. Adobe reset everything and I did a quick cal and didn't match against prints. 

as in the example image, I would have toned down the greens some, as personal preference. When I open other images in ACR, those would be the way they should be. The green in the example photo of the birthday girl (and the pink, too) are overdone for me, I would tone them down. But other images look the way they should. Firefox  appears to match the print.  I have recalibrated several times since this started, thanks to Adobe resetting it  

Correct. It darkens it somewhat slightly, but makes it more green. 

Same issue  

Everything looks fine on Firefox. 

it happens as soon as I open it, and stays that way. When I move from screen to screen, it happens when I realize the mouse, yes. 

LoL I was trying to respond, I thought I broke this, too! haha! So it never "faded" slowly, it's an instantaneous thing. I sent you a video on your facebook messenger (sorry to invade you there, but there isn't a way to post video here.) Meanwhile, Firefox is installed per your instructions. (oh, and good morning!) 

It's ok! Go bike ride sounds like a great time. I am going to head to bed, which also sounds like a great time lol. I will check back tomorrow and see you're reaction to the chicken dinner winner (so strange, right?) 

Wait. SHIT! I went to click on that screen to try and drag it to my laptop and poof.  Washed out again, like it did when I hooked it up to the TV. Crap. Back to the drawing board, but maybe a clue lies within that. I will carry on with the firefox instructions and then head to bed. I was so psyched. What a disappointment it switched back 

Ding, ding, ding! Winner, winner, Chicken dinner!! 

I set screen 2 to be my main display and the colors in ACR match PS! 

(I haven't done the firefox thing yet..) 

I am like most people lol. screen 1 is the laptop, screen 2 is the monitor. I use google chrome for a web browser. 

Color setting in the edit menu is exactly how you say in your page, when I uninstalled and reinstalled, I went by your article word for word to be sure. (so yes, North America General Purpose 2"

Also, when I change the "assign profile" to my own color profile, it gets worse, even more washed out. 

There's still a noticeable difference in the contrast, harder to see with your awful green, but not enough contrast in photoshop can be seen!  

when I click the "toggle" profile on the external screen with your "toggle" profile, it all turns an awful green color. Toggling between the two doesn't correct the problem when I go back to my own profile 

It's on extend. 

yes, sir, seems you are correct. Doesn't seem to matter which second screen so far, I was going to try it on another tomorrow. 

I almost never use photoshop on the laptop, but since this whole thing started, when I have had PS on the laptop screen, I have never seen a difference in colors. They've always stayed the same in ACR and preview windows as it's been in photoshop. Only the monitor has ever done this.