Color space is changing

[Jess_dunn]

19 minutes ago, Damien Symonds said:

Can you open a photo (a jpeg file) in both Photoshop and Chrome, and show me a screenshot to demonstrate the difference?

(To open a photo in Chrome, make a new tab then press Ctrl O to open a file)

I hope I'm doing this right.

[Jess_dunn]

24 minutes ago, Damien Symonds said:

Can you open a photo (a jpeg file) in both Photoshop and Chrome, and show me a screenshot to demonstrate the difference?

(To open a photo in Chrome, make a new tab then press Ctrl O to open a file)

Hope I did this right.

[Christina Keddie]

Jess, do you need help following the second troubleshooter to fix the color space problem?

[Damien Symonds]

7 minutes ago, Jess_dunn said:

I hope I'm doing this right.

I'm so sorry, I should have mentioned, it will have to be an sRGB file, once you've fixed the untagged problem.

[Jess_dunn]

Christina,

Thank you! But I just did it. I hope this doesn't happen again. I honestly was so confused, I have know idea why it was happening because I followed all of Damien's directions to make sure I was in sRGB. I'm feeling silly now for posting.

 

[Christina Keddie]

Hey, don't feel silly!  I'm glad that fixed it, and definitely keep that document profile indicator on so you can always check your files' color space at a glance.  

[Jess_dunn]

2 minutes ago, Christina Keddie said:

Hey, don't feel silly!  I'm glad that fixed it, and definitely keep that document profile indicator on so you can always check your files' color space at a glance.  

That's the thing. I swear I have been. It didn't say that last night. That's why I feel silly.

 

[Jess_dunn]

Looks better!

Another question, just because I like to understand what's going on. When you tell me to assign a profile, you also mention to try your monitor profile. When I do it changes it to that weird color I was talking about. So does that mean anything? If not why would my calibrated monitor profile look that way if my screen is already calibrated?

Edited May 19, 2016 by Jess_dunn

[Damien Symonds]

Because that's what the monitor profile is for, you see.  To compensate for the natural crappiness of your screen.  That monitor profile is a record of all the flaws of your screen.  Photoshop reads that profile, and uses it to compensate for all the screen's flaws when showing you your photos.

I'm over-simplifying things a lot here, of course, but that's the nub of it.

[Jess_dunn]

1 minute ago, Damien Symonds said:

Because that's what the monitor profile is for, you see.  To compensate for the natural crappiness of your screen.  That monitor profile is a record of all the flaws of your screen.  Photoshop reads that profile, and uses it to compensate for all the screen's flaws when showing you your photos.

I'm over-simplifying things a lot here, of course, but that's the nub of it.

Thanks for explaining that! I really appreciate all the time you took tonight to help me out. I still don't know what I did and I'm really hoping it doesn't happen again, lol. But if it does I'll be on here driving you guys nuts.

Thanks again!