Datacolor User to User Support Group.

On Aug 28, 2010, at 11:34 AM, Vampire D wrote:

> If for example I load an image in Windows Picture Viewer it looks really red on my HP, if I drag the window to the left onto the Samsung it looks fine.  I know Windows Picture Viewer on Windows 7 is color managed.  I reset the monitor to factor defaults and then switched it to custom color rgb 255/255/255 (default 6500K).  
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> I am calibrating for 2.2 - Native on both monitors.  I've even tried setting the profile to sRGB for the HP.
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> If I load the image in LR/PS it looks good if I drag it to the other monitor, it still looks good (not as good but I think that is the difference in monitors, the colors look very similar).

Typically, when an image looks good in a color managed app, and bad in an noncolor managed app, that means that the calibration (which effects both) is okay, but the profile (used only by the CM app) is important to getting the color right. You are claiming that Windows Picture Viewer is color managed... I'd have to wonder, since the results are different, if thats true. Or if its totally true. Perhaps it works with the main profile, so is right on that screen, but wrong on the second screen? Or some other such issue.

C. David Tobie
Global Product Technology Manager
Digital Imaging & Home Theater
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