[Rob_Lucy]

Hi all!
First post to ask for some help.

I'm sorry to bother you again with this, I know this has already been discussed, but I was unable to find a solution.
My problem is I can't get the same colors I see in Maxwell when I open the rendered image in Photoshop.

Maxwell is set to use "sRGB" and the same profile is set in Photoshop, but the final image is way less saturated when opened in PS (the same image is perfect when viewed with xnview).
The textures have the same "sRGB" profile embedded.
I tried any image format (png, tiff, etc...), different profiles, but the problem is always the same.

The only solution I found is: set both Maxwell and PS to use "sRGB", save the image as HDR (which has no profile embedded), open it in PS (which is set to ask when imeges with different profile are loaded) and when it asks what to do I have to assign "adobe RGB (1998)" and check the "and then convert document to working RGB" box. This way the final image is looking the same as in Maxwell and it has "sRGB" embedded (this is the profile the post production guys use, so I need to stick to it).

I'm pretty sure this is NOT the easy way to do it... some help would be appreciated.

Thanks a lot.

[tom]

Could you please share screenshots of Photoshop Color Settings and the color difference viewed in PS vs Maxwell side by side?

[Rob_Lucy]

Sure, here they are:

photoshop color settings:


Screen capture:

[polynurb]

are you using OpenGl acceleration in PS?

i have had some strange color matching issues too lately, which could be related to a nvidia driver issue.
in PS in the openGL options there is an option under DEBUG: "color matching"

maybe changing this works for you? it did here for 8&16bit but 32bit now displays with wrong gamma...

still have to dig deeper when i find the time.

[Rob_Lucy]

I do have a Nvidia card (quadro2000), but didn't find that "color matching" option.
All I found is Edit > Preferences > Performance and in the "GPU settings" section "detected video card" (correctly detects my quadro2000).
There I can enable or disable openGL drawing. In advaced settings I can set basic, normal or advanced mode, but no "debug" nor "color matching".
Can you tell me whare I can find that option?
Thanks a lot!

[polynurb]

ahh sorry.. you must be with Cs5. i still use Cs4:

here it looks like this:

[Rob_Lucy]

Yes, cs5 here... and no such option.
Thanks anyway.

[Rob_Lucy]

Could this be the problem?
Maybe the profile name is the same, but the profile itself is different?

[richardyot]

Are you using a monitor profile anywhere?

For example if you have calibrated using a Spyder or similar, it will create a monitor profile which Photoshop then uses to "correct" your display. But Maxwell and other applications will not use the monitor profile so they will display colours differently.

[Rob_Lucy]

Yes, the computer came with 2 monitors and these are the factory settings:

main monitor:


secondary monitor:


system settings:


But I'm guessing those settings affect anything is displayed...
This thing is driving me crazy... luckily enough I can go through that HDR>png process and solve the puzzle.

[tom]

Check [ ] Use my settings for this device and replace DELL's icm with standard sRGB.

[Rob_Lucy]

Check [ ] Use my settings for this device and replace DELL's icm with standard sRGB.

That was the trick!
Everything's perfect now, thanks a lot!