On 4/8/05 3:05 pm, "Jennifer Ovink" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Monitor settings are the same. I've tried recalibrating the monitor
> but it's kind of silly, because all my system colors/photos (screen
> saver, background, etc) look fine. It's only SOME photos on the
> Internet, all the thumbnails in iPhoto, and everything I view in
> Photoshop. These may not be the only areas affected, but they are the
> only ones I use, or that I have tried out.
>
> It's not a Photoshop problem (as the Sonnet tech has suggested),
> UNLESS there is a change in my computer somehow with the upgrade and
> OSX and their interaction, that is incompatible with Photoshop.
> Wouldn't someone know about that?
>
> It's not my monitor, because it shows some photos, like my desktop
> photos and screen savers as great. And most of what I see on the
> INternet looks great as well.
>
> This is such a hard problem to describe to anyone. For instance, in
> OS X.3, the little pane in the left top of every finder window that
> lets you select the list view now has a background square behind it,
> half pink-half blue, divided horizontally between the colors. Now how
> weird is that? But that's what showed up after the upgrade. That has
> nothing to do with photoshop, that's a system color. (see window-
> colors-bad.jpg in the folder below).
>
> There is something that all these color changes have in common, but
> I'm not smart enough to tell someone "yes, it's whenever I see an xxx
> type of image that this happens" so we can troubleshoot the problem.
>
> My frustration is showing through....I've been dealing with this
> almost a year. I can't use Photoshop anymore, so I can't update my
> web site, can't scan family photos and can't retouch photos I take
> with my camera. The colors are so off it's useless to try.
>
> Screen shots of the bad images can be found here: www.ovink.us/badscreen
>
> Jennifer
That's pretty bad corruption - and calibrating your monitor properly is
pretty difficult without a spectrophotometer and the accompanying software
which reads the values of your phosphors from the screen and makes a profile
which will fit them to a colorspace.
But here's a few questions...
Your bios for the Radeon 9200 ends with 127 whereas I thought the latest
rom Oct 2004 upgrade brought it to 124
"ATY,Bugsy"
fcodePropertyModel "ATY,RV280"
driverNameInfoStr "ATY,Bugsy"
driverNameStr ".Display_DualHead"
fcodePropertyRomNum "113-A27502-124"
the above is from ATI dumper text file for a 9200 after the Oct 2004
Which version of Pshop are you using and have you set the working space?
If not set your Monitor Display Color preferences to sRGB IEC61966-2.1 then
go into Pshop and choose color settings from the Pshop menu - Custom
settings and choose sRGB IEC61966-2.1 for the RGB space, your printer
profile for the CMYK space (or generic, SWOP coated), Gamma 1.8 for Gray
setting and 15% for Spot. Turn all the color management policies off and put
a tick on the Mismatches - ask when opening.
Find a jpeg or tiff which looks fine in Quicktime or Preview and import
it into Pshop - if it's not the same color as in the OS go to the image
menu> mode> assign a profile and choose the sRGB IEC61966-2.1 and see if
there's any change.
Pete
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