Color problems when editing

[sarahgirl777]

I posted a different thread regarding this in another section, but couldn't get my problem to show up on my attachment. I did a screen shot this time and hopefully you guys will be able to see my issue and help me. Most of the colors on my screen look normal, but when I'm editing pictures in photoshop (or view them in windows picture viewer) My shadow colors look strange. Here is a picture of what I'm talking about. Look at her hair and you can see wierd greens and stuff in it. These pictures are older and didn't look like this before, if I look at it on my flickr it looks normal so I've ruled out my monitor settings. CLICK HERE for the flickr link.

I have 3 sessions to edit and I can't do it if my colors are all off, I haven't changed any settings so I'm not sure where to go with this. Any ideas???

Attached is a copy showing my issue.

[jdepould]

I'm not seeing it. What kind of screen is it?

[CiiVii]

I certainly see it. Don't know how to help you, but I see the odd green cast in her hair...

[Cam Monroe]

I can see it too....do you have...or can you borrow a different monitor?
Just to rule out that you current one isn't starting to fail.


The only other thing I can think of, is the sRGB profile

Something updated to V4, while everything else is still V2?
http://www.color.org/srgbprofiles.xalter

Ideally the ICC v4 profile should not be combined with ICC v2 profiles. If that is unavoidable, see the intermediate-level ICC White Paper 26 'Using the sRGB_v4_ICC_preference.icc profile' for additional information and recommendations.

[teaking]

if we cant see it when you post an edited picture you have saved from photoshop then I would say that works as an isolation test and points to your colour profiles being correct. As the only way anyone notices the difference is from a direct screen shot of your monitor then I would assume a monitor issue.

Does your monitor have specific RGB channels you can change in its set up? if so is the green channel unusualy hight.

Can you set your monitor to default settings?

Does your graphics card control your monitor colour? if so does it have seperate settings for RGB and gamma if so are these right and can you also set the default settings on your graphics card?

If you can go back to default settings on your monitor and graphics card and the problem is still there I would advise testing another monitor to complete the test and then you can narrow it down.... oh good luck

[LoveDSLR]

Did you upgrade ACR recently? Maybe you are having a 'shadow posterization' issue associated with ACR profiles.

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[sarahgirl777]

Thanks for all your suggestions, I tried about everything and finally called Dell tech. support for help because I ruled out my moniter cause it would look fine if I uploaded a picture and viewed it on Flickr. I noticed that I did a recent windows update a few days ago and that is about when it started. Anyways it took the tech over an hour and he still couldn't figure it out, but did a system restore to April 1st and it's all better now. THANK GOODNESS. I was stressing about how I was going to get my sessions (including a wedding) edited when the colors were strange. All I have to say is I'm not doing any more updates for a while!