Re: Preview.app and Adobe Photoshop display images differently
Re: Preview.app and Adobe Photoshop display images differently
- Subject: Re: Preview.app and Adobe Photoshop display images differently
- From: Nipat Paiboonponpong <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 05:29:41 -0700 (PDT)
If Preview acted like other standard color managed applications.
We wouldn't need to buy an application to print a believable
color managed document or to print a target for building printer profile.
Try reading the archive about Preview and iPhoto.
Nipat
--- On Thu, 6/4/09, Brian Aydemir <email@hidden> wrote:
> From: Brian Aydemir <email@hidden>
> Subject: Preview.app and Adobe Photoshop display images differently
> To: email@hidden
> Date: Thursday, June 4, 2009, 10:19 AM
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to figure out why Preview.app and Adobe
> Photoshop display
> the same image differently. My main concern (for the
> moment) is
> getting these two programs to display images consistently
> when
> compared with each other.
>
> The test image in question is a JPEG file with an embedded
> sRGB
> profile; it was produced by Canon's Digital Photo
> Professional.
> Here's what I do:
>
> 1. Make sure Preview and Photoshop are both not running.
> 2. Under System Preferences, select a color profile for my
> monitor.
> (ColorSync Utility confirms that the monitor is the default
> display.)
> 3. Open the image in both Preview and Photoshop.
>
> Suppose that in step 2 I pick one of the "default" profiles
> that came
> with my monitor. In step 3, the image looks the same
> in both
> applications. Suppose instead that in step 2 I pick
> the profile
> generated by the monitor's calibration and profiling
> software. In
> step 3, the image looks different in the two applications.
>
> More specifically, when I switch from one profile to the
> other, the
> overall display of my system doesn't seem to change---I
> believe that
> the "default" profile is quite close to the calibrated
> one. So, the
> image's appearance in Photoshop doesn't change. It's
> Preview that's
> displaying the image quite differently when I switch.
>
> I am baffled as to what's going on here. Shouldn't
> the two programs
> always display the same thing, regardless of the profile
> that's
> selected? I'd appreciate any thoughts that people
> might have here. I
> can provide more detailed information upon request.
>
> Cheers,
> Brian
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