Photos Looking Greenish

[russmarshall]

<p>Been working on a Blurb memorial book for about 2 years. The photographs are mostly B&W processed in PS Elements 5. Cropping, spotting, contrast tweaking and imparting a little color from light tan to brown tones. Sometimes a subtle hue of yellow/gold looked good on some of the older vintage photos from the early 20th century. As I’m looking back over some of those early pages/photos on my program from a year or so ago, I’ve been noticing a definite color shift to green on my monitor where there used to be a tan or slight brown tone. More recent photos in the book look OK. I’m using a Dell PC & monitor and I color calibrate with my ColorVision Spyder2express about once a month. I’m noticing the same color shift to green on some photos on my web site and in My Picture folders. Any thoughts on this? Is my monitor going bad?</p>

[Matt Laur]

<p>And it still looks that way immediately after you calibrate?</p>

[peter_e]

<p>Have you changed the lights in your room? Different bulbs?</p>

[brad_smith8]

<p>I get greenish casts if I save an image in the ProPhoto RGB space, then open the image in a non-color managed program. When you added color did you make sure to use sRGB?</p>

[russmarshall]

<p>Matt - Never checked it immediately after. Will try it.<br>

Peter - Do you mean the lights when I calibrate? Anyway - I calibrate with all lights off.<br>

Brad - Yes I did use sRGB.</p>

[chas_frady]

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<p>Is my monitor going bad?</p>

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<p>Possibly... How old is it? and what model is it?</p>

[russmarshall]

<p>Chas - My monitor is a Dell 17 inch Ultrasharp 1707FP Digital Flat Panel. Is 6 years old as is my computer - a Dell Dimension E510. I'm on the thing almost every day for about 6 hrs average.<br>

Thanks all for your responses. I'm about to send the book to the printers in about a month or two.</p>

[chas_frady]

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<p>Chas - My monitor is a Dell 17 inch Ultrasharp 1707FP Digital Flat Panel. Is 6 years old...</p>

 

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<p>Whether or not this monitor is related to the issue, I'd consider relegating it to document editing use only, or perhaps as a secondary monitor. Good 22"-23" monitors are quite affordable right now.</p>