NEW MEMBER QUERY: Colour Profiles

[ReelLifePhotos]

Hi everyone. Just joined as am being driven spare by my colour profiles after using profile generated by my Eye One Match Pro, I can't see correct colours anywhere, not even online or in Photoshop! Worse still it make images on my website invisible to me, though when checking on my phone I do know they are still there as they should be. Have gone through every menu available in Windows, but just can't get it how it should be! Any ideas? xx

[Donald]

I copied Elaine's post from her introductory message in the Meet the Members sections. Hopefully, some of you folks will come on here to help her sort this one out.

[stuck]

...am being driven spare by my colour profiles after using profile generated by my Eye One Match Pro, I can't see correct colours anywhere...

If I'd got mixed up like that I would go back to hardware and Windows defaults and start again, i.e. using the controls on the monitor I'd find the 'factory reset' option and do that. Then in Windows I be looking to restore the defaults for my graphics card and anything else that might alter the screen.

Only then would I try again with the Eye One.

Ken

[revi]

My first step would be to try and remove the new profile (i.e. remove it from the settings, and move the file to another location).
That is often enough all that is needed to get things working again, and avoids losing all kinds of other settings that might have
taken a lot of time to set up.

Also, try and check if there are log files, they could help pinpoint the problem (it could be an error in the profile, and programs
react differently to that kind of thing).

For the online pictures, try using a different browser if you can (not all programs react the same to troublesome files).

That is all things to try to find the cause of the problem, and help you avoid it in the future. If all that doesn't help, then indeed
go back to default settings as far as possible/needed. One disadvantage of that solution is that you are rather likely to run in the
same problem again when trying to generate a new profile with the same hardware/software.

[Manfred M]

We don't have a lot of information to go on here. What kind of computer and operating system are you using? Have you set up your monitor properly prior to profiling; usually turning down the level and turning up the contrast are a requirement for my i1 unit / software.

Unless the software you are running (including internet browsers) are colour managed, they will not produce colour managed output, but it sounds like there is something far more serious going on here if you cannot even see the images on your website. Could you perhaps send us a link to your website so we can see what the images that you are having problems with look like.

[PBelarge]

Why not just run the software/hardware again and let the new profiles developed override the existing ones.

Question to the OP - did you install the expert mode where you make all the decisions, or the mode where you let the equipment do all the heavy lifting?