Photoshop help.. Everything gets purpleized.

Factual Questions
1

It’s almost like my copy of PS has been graped by the grapist.
Everything I open in it becomes purple.

I can view the images without the purple tinge by going into the view options and choosing a different colour space.

It still saves the image with the purple tinge regardless.

Here’s where it gets weird: If I view the image, in any app whatsoever, even if I’m viewing the image from a web page, on the same PC I used to edit it, it remains purple, but if I view it on a different computer it is not purple??

Example. Look at IMAG0053.jpg and IMAG0053a.jpg from here…

http://notails.com/photography/foundgrafitti/

When I see these on the PC I edited them on, one is purpler than the other (the PS’d one is with the penis cloned out)

But when I look at them on my other PC (a laptop) they are almost identical in colour)

Are they the same or different on your monitor?

If they are the same, why is the ‘source’ monitor displaying them differently?

2

They look fine on my monitor. I know I’ve seen this problem before. Let me look it up.

3

Here’s the thread on it I’ve seen before. I don’t know if my information resolved the user’s problems, but start from there and see if anything helps.

edit: Oh, crap, that was you I was helping. So, I guess we never did resolve your problem, did we?

edit2: And I see your problem is not quite exactly the same as it was before. That’s weird.

4

They look fine on mine, I’m not seeing any difference at all.
Is it really noticeable on your computer or is it so slight that a lot of people might not pick up on it? Cuz they look identical on my computer.

5

Yeah, after slapping myself for poor reading comprehension, I looked at the pictures again, specifically IMAG0053.jpg and IMAG0053a.jpg. I downloaded them, as well. They look the same (or pretty damned close) in every application I tried. Preview, Safari, Firefox, Photoshop PS3. They’re all tagged as sRGB files. I tried opening up ignoring the color space, converting the color space to Adobe RGB, using the working color space, but none of the options looked purple to me.

I have no clue what could be causing this.

6

OK. Just so you know, I took IMAG0053.jpg and IMAG0053a.jpg and pasted them on top of each other in Photoshop. Am I understanding you correctly that only one of these looks purple, but not the other one? Because when I run “difference” blending on the two layers, the only difference that shows up is the cloned out penis area. Everywhere else is absolutely black, meaning the RGB values are exactly the same. In other words, it’s not that the colors look about the same on my computer. They are the same.

7

Wait–is this just a trick to get us to look at your penis?

8

my computer is switched off now, but tomorrow i’ll literally take a photograph of my monitor to illustrate the difference. however, if it looks fine on all other monitors then the problem is not a big one.

p.s. they also look fine on an ipod screen (which is what I am typing this on… with lots of error correcting!!)

9

Please do. Open the webpage you linked us to and photograph the results. Or do a screenshot–that should do it, too, I would think.

10

Is it possible the advanced settings of your monitor have an added color scheme?

Control Panel
_Display
__Display properties
____Settings
______Advanced
________Color Management

I don’t have any profiles listed in my setup. Current Monitor is “default” and Default Monitor Profile is “none”

11

You’re thinking exatly what I was thinking. Well, my actual thought was that a color profile was corrupt, causing the weird colorations.

Unless you have a specific profile tuned for your specific brand of monitor, most people either have no profile or they’re using the sRGB Color Space Profile.

First thing I’d try is to remove any existing color profile, or if none is selected, try adding the sRGB one - it should be on the list when you click Add…

12

I just like the word “Purpleized”

13

I think both would be a better idea, the photo will tell us what you are physically seeing, but the screen shot might, but probably won’t, show us something different. We are already pretty sure this has to do with the computer, it would be very interesting if the screen shot looked normal on a different computer.

14

This post has been purpleized by the Purpleizer.

15

I’m at work. I’ve done a screenshot of the two images in firefox next to the same two images in a remote connection to my home PC…


I can’t change colour settings via a remote session so I’ll have a go at that when I get home.
This is all very confusing! (If my monitor had wrong-set colour profile wouldn’t everything be wrong?)

16

So, in both of those images, you’re using Firefox to access the webpage you’ve listed above? (That is, you’re not loading up any local files, but actually going to http://notails.com/photography/foundgrafitti/)? I am utterly confounded.

17

OK, I went into a hex editor and looked at the thumbnail files (which is what you had up on the screenshots.) They do, actually, have different header information.

The non-purple picture in your shot has minimal header information (there’s nothing interesting I could find in the header, it just goes straight to the image data it seems.)

The purple pictures has this text:

XICC_PROFILE HLino mntrRGB XYZ

Then there’s some text on sRGB IEC61977-2.1, which is pretty much a standard sRGB space.

So far as I could tell this is the basic info Adobe Photoshop embedded in your file after you saved it.

So, I guess it’s somewhere here, in images that are embedded with color profiles and images which don’t and default to a colorspace, something has gone awry. I’m not familiar with Windows computers very much anymore, but I would start with poking around Magiver’s suggestion.

18

Yes, that’s what confused me too. Even viewing the files as they are uploaded to my website - I still saw the edited one as purple, but only on my home computer!
When I get home I’ll be fiddling about with the colour settings as per Magyver’s suggestion.

Thanks for your replies and help so far :slight_smile: I’ll post here if my messing about with the colour profiles comes up with anything.

19

OK, I’ve stripped ALL the metadata in your problematic purple photo and posted it here. I assume this looks fine on your home computer now, right?

20

Yes it looks fine. So it’s a combination of the picture’s colour metadata and my home computer’s colour settings that results in purpleness.

As well as fiddling about with the colour settings for the offending computer I might also try duplicating the current settings on the other computer (at home) to see if that causes the purple.
You have certainly put a lot of effort into helping me with this! Thanks very much :slight_smile:

I’ll keep you posted.