I am at a loss.
I have calibrated my monitor.
I have checked my color profile was saved to the correct location:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\drivers\color
I have checked the default profile was set to this profile in:
Control Panel>Display>Setings>Advanced>Color Management
Colors were OK just after calibration.

When I powered on my PC the next day, all applications displayed colors OK (MS Office, pdf documents, Windows Picture viewer, etc.) EXCEPT Bridge, ACR, and Photoshop.
When I browse a folder in Bridge the thumbnails colors are OK (after purging the cache for this folder), but when I click a thumbnail the preview image colors go off, and the next two adjacent thumbnails colors go off as well!
See attached printscreen. If I open in PS or ACR, colors are off as well.
As if color management aware applications ignore my profile.

What am I missing? What more should I do?
Thanks for your time & help,
Al

System: W XP SP2, CS3 Ext, monitor: Eizo ColorEdge CE210W, calibration software: ColorEdge ColorNavigator CE, calibration sensor: X-Rite DTP94B.

It means that the profile IS working. It either sucks or your images are way off now you're finally seeing them that way.

Btw, if you wish to make your images the same in PS and in Win/Fax viewer, make sure you switch 'soft proofing' in PS to Windows RGB.

Regards
Wes

Not really....

That soft proof will show you what your images look like on your machine outside an ICC aware application (using of course color management). It doesn't show you want the images would look like on anyone else's display or system.

That's true, but I was referring to the original question of him viewing the images on his machine in win fax viewer.

Best
Wes

Well all he has to do is open the image in that fax viewer. That it isn't ICC aware only begs the question, why look at it knowing the preview is wrong?

digitaldog,

I find it hard to believe my images are way off. Why would they? They havent been before calibration, and I have bloody big enlargements hanging on my walls to support that.

Why are the Bridge thumbnail colors OK after purging the cache then?

BTW my (unsophisticated) settings for calibration are gamma 2.2, brightness 80cd/m2, white point 6500K.

Also why does clicking on a thumbnail in Bridge trigger the two adjacent thumbnail colors to go off as well? See picture attached to my first post.


Thanks all for your time and advice,
Al

Some more info may be helpful:

Are you using a CRT or LCD? what model?

Have you reset PS preferences? (hold down Ctrl, ALt, Shitf while PS is starting up)

Luminosity of 80 seems rather dark even for a CRT and if an LCD how did you get it that low?

Ken

I finally found the solution to my problem.
See this thread: http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b4c665/19.
It's interesting.

Thank God, my pictures were not off...


Thank you all for your time and help.

Hi! I am glad you got it solved. I've also bookmarked the link for myself.

Best
Wes