What just happened to my coloring?

[BeCloserPhotography]

Some random notification popped up when I opened PS/CC stating I needed to update my calibration or something.  I went ahead and hit to the button to ignore it, but went ahead and closed PS and calibrated my monitor.  Well, after the calibration, I pulled in several pictures to edit, and they all had this crazy green tone to them.  I never changed any of my settings and they look normal everywhere else.  What settings do I need to fix to get this back to the way it's supposed to be?

[BeCloserPhotography]

Oh and it changed around my workspace too.  It was really weird and completely messed up.  Not sure what happened to make this all take place.

 

[Damien Symonds]

Hi Becky, this happens to everyone from time to time.

How about Bridge?  Is it ok, or displaying weirdly too?

3 minutes ago, BeCloserPhotography said:

Oh and it changed around my workspace too.  It was really weird and completely messed up.

Not just your workspace.  The problem is worse than that.  Follow this to its conclusion to fix the colour space problem.

[BeCloserPhotography]

yep, same problem in bridge as well.

 

[Damien Symonds]

Ok, phew.  Then that probably just means it was a glitch in calibration.  How many times have you calibrated just now?

[BeCloserPhotography]

30 minutes ago, Damien Symonds said:

Hi Becky, this happens to everyone from time to time.

How about Bridge?  Is it ok, or displaying weirdly too?

Not just your workspace.  The problem is worse than that.  Follow this to its conclusion to fix the colour space problem.

I made sure my color space is correct, but nothing has changed.  I have restarted my computer and it still shows this wonky green

9 minutes ago, Damien Symonds said:

Ok, phew.  Then that probably just means it was a glitch in calibration.  How many times have you calibrated just now?

twice.  But I am wondering if I am screwing it up...

[Damien Symonds]

Which Spyder do you have, and how old is it?

[BeCloserPhotography]

does it make a difference if the opening screen of PS is perfectly normal in color?

10 minutes ago, Damien Symonds said:

Which Spyder do you have, and how old is it?

Spyder 3 Pro and it's probably like 4 years or so....best guess

 

[Damien Symonds]

Just now, BeCloserPhotography said:

does it make a difference if the opening screen of PS is perfectly normal in color?

Nah, it just means that screen isn't colour-managed (doesn't draw on the monitor profile for rendering).

[BeCloserPhotography]

ok good to know

 

[Damien Symonds]

2 minutes ago, BeCloserPhotography said:

Spyder 3 Pro and it's probably like 4 years or so....best guess

That's pretty old for technology.  It's possible it's just failing.

But we need to know for sure. Let's test a few more things.  Which web browser do you use?

[BeCloserPhotography]

I am on Firefox

[Damien Symonds]

Interesting.  And it's ok?  Do you have its settings just so?  https://www.damiensymonds.net/2012/01/web-browsers-and-facebook.html

[BeCloserPhotography]

Ok I just followed all of the steps in that link and restarted PS with the same result

 

[Damien Symonds]

What about Firefox, though?  Is it still ok?

[BeCloserPhotography]

it looks normal to me...am I looking for something in particular?

 

[Damien Symonds]

Yes, for it to be all crazy green like PS!

Next question - in Photoshop, if you go to Edit>Assign Profile, and assign the monitor profile instead of sRGB to the image, does it make it better, worse, or the same?

[BeCloserPhotography]

well lookie there...it appears to have fixed the issue!

I knew you would be the only one on the internet who could help me!  Seriously you saved the day.  Thank you so much!

[Damien Symonds]

No no no.  It hasn't fixed the issue, it's just a clue about the issue.  And again, it points to a problem with the calibrator, rather than with your computer or Photoshop.

Next question, can you fill this out for me?

[BeCloserPhotography]

however, it does it again for the next picture I open up.  Is there a way to save it so it stops doing this automatically?

 

[Damien Symonds]

It's not a solution.  Forget it.  Let's move on.

1 minute ago, Damien Symonds said:

Next question, can you fill this out for me?

 

[BeCloserPhotography]

10 minutes ago, Damien Symonds said:

No no no.  It hasn't fixed the issue, it's just a clue about the issue.  And again, it points to a problem with the calibrator, rather than with your computer or Photoshop.

Next question, can you fill this out for me?

yep, I will work on that now.

[BeCloserPhotography]

I have a PC desktop running Windows 10 and Photoshop CC. It is over 2 years old, and has 8GB of RAM. Its hard drive has 21GB free out of 223GB. The last time I shut down was just before posting this thread. I rarely run a cleanup program.

[Damien Symonds]

WHOA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1 minute ago, BeCloserPhotography said:

Its hard drive has 21GB free out of 223GB.

This is catastrophic.

Brian always recommends at least 1/3rd free space, and yours only has 1/10th.  You HAVE to clear some space.  You're lucky your computer even starts up.  You're very lucky if a dodgy calibration is your only problem.

[BeCloserPhotography]

Well, I tried to do some backup of RAW files to Dropbox yesterday, but didn't realize it was storing them on my hard drive.  I thought Dropbox kept them off site...guess not the way I thought...anyway, maybe I just start there?  Do you think if I cleared space this would help my problems?