Newbie needs help please....

[kezz71]

Sorry if I am reposting something that has already been talked about....
Can someone please tell me how I get my photos to look the same in CS4 as when I open them in a folder on my laptop.... I edit them in CS4 and they look great but when I open them in the destination folder, they suddenly become yellow.... I haven't yet bought a calibrator either.... All a bit new to me...
Thanks,
Kezz

[JFSanders]

Are you running the editing on the laptop as well? I mean you edit in CS4 and then save to a folder then open in a picture viewer program, right? It sounds as if your gamma is wrong on the laptop if that is not where you are doing your editing. Calibrating your laptop may be an exercise in frustration unless you have a IPS LCD on your laptop and then it may still defy a true gamma setpoint. Just for giggles go into your video controller on your laptop and see if there is a gamma slider. If so then you can try setting your gamma to 2.1 or 2.2 for a windows laptop or I think it is 1.8 for a apple laptop. It also may be related to your color space settings. If CS4 is working in aRGB and your laptop is working in sRGB you may see a color shift due to the smaller gamut of sRGB.

Start here and be ready for brain overload. Norman Koren


Jim

[kezz71]

THanks Jim.... I am working off a BenQ external monitor for my editing... Will this make a difference in what you are saying.... ??

[JFSanders]

Even though you are using the same computer to drive both screens you will not have the gamma the same on both unless they are both calibrated. Apple has a pretty good calibration set up for their desktops but I do not know enough about them or the laptops to be of much help.

So what you are saying is that you edit with the BenQ and then when you open them with the Apple pic viewer they have a yellow cast? If so then I would suspect that either one or both have calibration issues. But calibrating the laptop screen is going to be much harder than the BenQ.

jim

[kezz71]

Thanks Jim... Will battle on...