SRGB - Red not looking correct

[Jennik]

Hi Damien

When I change over to the sRGB work flow, it seems to make my reds go sort of orange and bright in the preview screen

But when I open in photoshop its OK again

 

 

[Damien Symonds]

Hmmm ... do you mind doing this for me, @Jennik

[Jennik]

I have a PC laptop running Windows 8.1 and Photoshop 2017 1.1. It is over 2 years old, and has 16GB of RAM. Its hard drive has 110GB free out of 19.9GB. The last time I shut down was last night. I have never run a cleanup program.

[Damien Symonds]

2 minutes ago, Jennik said:

Its hard drive has 110GB free out of 19.9GB.

Obviously this can't be right.  That's mathematically impossible.  Can you check again?

[Jennik]

Sorry its 19.9gb free out of 110gb

[Damien Symonds]

Ooh, that's not very much.  I strongly urge you to do this to clear up some space.  Brian always says that a hard drive should have at least 1/3rd free space; and your hard drive is very small to begin with, so 50% free space would be a better goal if possible.

7 minutes ago, Jennik said:

I have never run a cleanup program.

And I urge you to run this as well.

11 hours ago, Jennik said:

When I change over to the sRGB work flow, it seems to make my reds go sort of orange and bright in the preview screen

But when I open in photoshop its OK again

This kind of behaviour sounds exactly like symptoms of a too-full hard drive.

[Jennik]

got the c drive down to 45% free and did the disk clean up and the one on the PC already and it hasnt changed

if i change the colour space to RGB it looks fine

 

 

[Damien Symonds]

ALL photos are RGB.  I assume you mean Adobe RGB, and you must NEVER use that.

Next step, in Photoshop, can you go to the Edit menu and choose Preferences>Performance, and take a screenshot of that window to show me?

[Jennik]

[Damien Symonds]

Because of your small hard drive, 100 history states is way too many.  Drop that to 50.

And uncheck the "Use Graphics Processor" box.  Then press OK, then restart your computer.

[Jennik]

same

[Damien Symonds]

Bugger.

Ok, how do they look in Bridge?  Like ACR, or like Photoshop?

[Jennik]

so they look fine in bridge and fine in photoshop its only the camera raw screen its off

[Damien Symonds]

Then you'll have to re-install Photoshop, I'm afraid.  There's no setting that can cause that.  It's a flaw in the program itself.

[Jennik]

Thanks Damien will do

Do you know how to do this with the creative cloud?  I try to uninstall via add/remove programs but it just comes up with the creative cloud box and only an option to update

[Damien Symonds]

I assume it's like this.

[Jennik]

woohoo it worked!!

Thanks Damien

Ill start my white balance pics again....

[Damien Symonds]

Yay!