Vista Color Management

[babaloo]

An interesting observation:
If I process a photograph to use as desktop wallpaper in Photoshop CS3, with
full color management, when I display that image on the desktop as wallpaper
in Vista the image is washed out and does not retain the characteristics of
the finished image when viewed in Photoshop.
In fact, if you manually size the Photoshop desktop and compare it to the
the underlying Vista wallpaper image the differences are startling.
That same image viewed as desktop wallpaper under XP retains all the
characteristics of the image the same as when viewed in Photoshop.
That this is a problem in Vista is, to me, confirmed by the fact that the
image was processed in Photoshop CS3 running under Vista.
This indicates very serious problems with either the way Vista, the NVidia
video driver, or both address image attributes outside of a program like
Photoshop which on its own strictly controls these issues.
So Vista, despite the promise of Direct X 10 so far is useless for high end
gaming, useless for high end graphics work and unstable with many high end
multimedia applications.
I really want to like Vista but what is it good for?

 

[MICHAEL]

* babaloo:

An interesting observation:
If I process a photograph to use as desktop wallpaper in Photoshop CS3, with
full color management, when I display that image on the desktop as wallpaper
in Vista the image is washed out and does not retain the characteristics of
the finished image when viewed in Photoshop.
In fact, if you manually size the Photoshop desktop and compare it to the
the underlying Vista wallpaper image the differences are startling.
That same image viewed as desktop wallpaper under XP retains all the
characteristics of the image the same as when viewed in Photoshop.
That this is a problem in Vista is, to me, confirmed by the fact that the
image was processed in Photoshop CS3 running under Vista.
This indicates very serious problems with either the way Vista, the NVidia
video driver, or both address image attributes outside of a program like
Photoshop which on its own strictly controls these issues.
So Vista, despite the promise of Direct X 10 so far is useless for high end
gaming, useless for high end graphics work and unstable with many high end
multimedia applications.

I really want to like Vista but

what is it good for?

......Absolutely nothing, Say it again, y'all.

Sorry, I couldn't resist. ;-)

Actually, I don't dislike Vista.
Perhaps, a bit disappointed.... just underwhelmed, really.

I haven't experienced the problem you describe.


-Michael

 

[Mark]

I have not seen a smilar issue. When I save a picture from cs3 and make it
my desktop it looks the same. But I have a generic install of CS3, do you
have a custom colorspace or something like that? Another possibility is the
color profile corruption issue that seems to plague Vista. You might try
going to display settings, advanced, Color Management. I deleted my profile
completely and things have been working just fine. Hope that helps a little!

Mark

 

[flambe]

In any flavor of Windows or Mac OS an image viewed in a properly set up,
monitor calibrated color managed program like Photoshop will look different
when viewed as desktop wallpaper or in any non-color managed application.
The way it looks in Photoshop should be a reliably near approximation of the
way it will print using color management: that is what color management does
if used properly.
If you are using Photoshop optimally then you should be using the Adobe RGB
color space.
Windows uses a non-color managed sRGB color space. In truth programs other
than high end image processors like Photoshop do not need the wider color
space of Adobe RGB, but high end image processing is impossible without it
or its ilk.
One of the unfulfilled promised of the cowpie of an OS that is Vista was a
new color management system that would apply across the board. Although I
despise Vista this issue is really not a big deal.
To moi it seems more important to get Vista to access a disk as fast as XP
and to reliably network than it does to implement universal color
management. Alas, Microsoft does not appear to be working on any of these
issues, counting on ever faster hardware to cover up for ever worse
bloatware. SP1 does nothing in this regard.