I hope someone here can help me with this one. In photoshop my B&W pictures are all too dark. I use photo express to organize them and there they look fine, close to the actual print. I used the gamma setting tool of photoshop (5.0 in windows) but to get the pictures right I have to set the gamma way too bright and all icon's and other figures/images (e.g. web) get too poor in contrast.

any suggestions?

Reinier

-- (rvlaam@xs4all.nl), April 27, 2002

Answers

Reinier, I don't have a specific solution, but it sounds to me like your system is not properly calibrated. Your screen output does not match your printer output. Here are some color management/calibration links that might be helpful:

http://www.pdnonline.com/pix/features.html

http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/tech/color/icmwp.asp

http://www.adobe.com/support/techguides/photoshop/cms2/cmwork.html

http://pshopelementssupport.adobe.com/adobeknowbase/root/public/pm3996 .htm?DREID=5553

chris

-- Christian Harkness (chris.harkness@eudoramail.com), April 28, 2002.

Hi

I found a setting that allowed to set the grey-scale gamma and changed it to 1.1. Then the picture looked equal to that of photo- express and the printer. Then I quit photoshop, restarted it, reloaded the picture and.... It was back as it was (too dark) while the gamma was still at 1.1. Howcome???

Reinier

-- ReinierV (rvlaam@xs4all.nl), April 29, 2002.

Try turning OFF "Display using monitor compensation" in Photoshop's preferences.
I know that conventional wisdom, and Adobe, says it's a good idea to have monitor compensation enabled, but I just find it a pain in the asterisks.
1.1 is far too high a gamma setting anyway. You haven't been reading that darned AIM website, have you?

-- Pete Andrews (p.l.andrews@bham.ac.uk), April 29, 2002.

AIM? Which one is that? Was it the last link? That one isn't working.

1.1 was the only way to get the pictures in photoexpress and photoshop equal (at least for that moment). I realize it should be 1.8 or so.

Reinier

-- ReinierV (rvlaam@xs4all.nl), April 29, 2002.

I did everything according the AIM website and the pictures on screen were almost equal to the ones printed. Then I closed the program. restarted everything and....everything was back to dark again. I did save everything. No I think it may be windows XP preventing photoshop 5.0 to store things in the right directories. Could that be?

-- ReinierV (rvlaam@xs4all.nl), May 02, 2002.

Reiner- I'm not a Windows guy. but I thiught the gamma for Windows machines should be at 2.0, Macs at 1.8. Could that help?

-- Gary Meader (gmeaderwa@earthlink.net), May 09, 2002.