Calibrated Monitor and now getting washed out photos.

[edroper]

Hey,

 

I calibrated my monitor with a ColorVision Spyder 2 express last night.

Everything looks sooper on my monitor. However, something appears to be off in

my workflow.

 

I open a NEF file in Nikon Capture, and make sure I'm using the sRGB color space

in the color management options block. I export to Photoshop Elements 5.0 ( the

latest version ), which is also running in sRGB. And when I go hit "Save For

Web", I get the results you see in the below image. This is a side by side

comparison of the image in the editor, and then in the save for web preview

window. Whats going on here?

 

If I look at Image >> Conver To Color Profile , the sRGB is already selected as

well. So as far as I can tell everything in the workflow is working in sRGB.

 

 

....Now heres the weird thing. On a whim, I set Nikon Capture to use the profile

created by the colorvision spyder. I then export to Photoshop, and dont do any

converting to any color space, and if I save for web that way, it looks fine.

But I'm under the impression this isn't what I'm supposed to be doing, is it?

 

So, I'm really confused now...<div></div>

[sattler123]

I do not use Nikon, but Canon. Canon's raw converter is called DPP and it specifically says that in DPP you should use the Monitor Profile for Color Management - so what you did with your Nikon software is exactly what Canon would tell you too. I went through the same issues until I decided to read the manual for DPP:-)

[robert_martin5]

I don't know about Nikon Capture, but Nikon Scan does not automatically use the latest monitor profile. With Nikon Scan each time I calibrate my monitor (every 4 weeks) I have to select the new monitor profile in Nikon Scan - just a thought that maybe Nikon Capture works the same way.

 

Photoshop automatically selects and uses the latest monitor profile. If Photoshop Elements 5 works the same way you may be using the new monitor profile in Photoshop Elements 5, but some other profile in Nikon Capture. Look at the help files to see if you have to load the new monitor profile in Capture.