Why is this happening? Color change from another software to PS??

[ALB68]

Heck no..not even close IMHO. I bought it just to see.

is paintshop pro better than photoshop?

 

[ALB68]

Mike, had I opened this file directly into Photoshop, in lieu of opening it in ACR it would have opened just fine. However I have my preferences set to open all Tiffs and Jpgs in ACR before PS. For some reason the Auto setting which works fine most of the time, made the image look that way. Hoogle said it was a 24bit image (I was unaware of that, because I was just experimenting with a file and do not use PSP except very rarely) and I was taken aback when I got something I didn't expect. It did not occur to me to hit Default in ACR (would it have you?). Auto works as kind of one step to setting exposure etc but if you don't like the result, I have learned with this, you should try the Default. To say one or the other was a "wrong" setting would not be correct. It's an either-or thing the way I understand it.

Bottom line....ACR was set wrong ?

 

[MikeB49]

ALB68, interesting problem. It is hard to say whether this is an application or color management issue without additional info. The color gamut of the PaintShop screenshot appears to have much greater color space than the image being shown in PS. It would be helpful to know the following.

-Bit depth PaintShop is using (we know the bit depth of PS)
-You are showing a screenshot of the PaintShop image rather than an output file - do they look the same? Is it possible that you were working in a color space other than sRGB in PaintShop so that when you saved it out to sRGB the color gamut changed?
-What are you experiencing when you have PS save the Tiff (without editing and as sRGB) and open it in PaintShop?
-You said that the saved file is in sRGB color space, is PS changing the color space on opening?
-Did you color calibrate (profile) your monitor?
-Are both applications using the same monitor profile?

Also, it would be useful to see 3 points on the image identified with their RGB values both in PaintShop and PS - then we can determine whether the image is being changed or whether it is being displayed differently.

 

[Tom Mann]

FWIW, I would never advise having "auto-anything" as one's default for any photo editing. It's just too unpredictable. For example, crop some white out of the edge of an image and autoexposure will change the brightness of the rest of the image. Crop an unimportant but bright color out of an image and AWB will change the color on you.

YMMV,

Tom

 

[ALB68]

Thank you Mike, but it might be helpful if you read the above posts. As far as I am concerned the issue has been solved.
By the way, welcome to PS Gurus. We need knowledgeable people such as you obviously are.

ALB68, interesting problem. It is hard to say whether this is an application or color management issue without additional info. The color gamut of the PaintShop screenshot appears to have much greater color space than the image being shown in PS. It would be helpful to know the following.

-Bit depth PaintShop is using (we know the bit depth of PS)
-You are showing a screenshot of the PaintShop image rather than an output file - do they look the same? Is it possible that you were working in a color space other than sRGB in PaintShop so that when you saved it out to sRGB the color gamut changed?
-What are you experiencing when you have PS save the Tiff (without editing and as sRGB) and open it in PaintShop?
-You said that the saved file is in sRGB color space, is PS changing the color space on opening?
-Did you color calibrate (profile) your monitor?
-Are both applications using the same monitor profile?

Also, it would be useful to see 3 points on the image identified with their RGB values both in PaintShop and PS - then we can determine whether the image is being changed or whether it is being displayed differently.

 

[ALB68]

I do agree with you Tom. In this case though, I did open the file in ACR and did nothing other than send it on the PS. Why? I don't know, just a brain fart I guess. Most times I am loading something in ACR that needs adjustments. I made this thing and it didn't occur that it would need ACR adjustment. Dumb I know, and I actually feel a little foolish. I will simply look at the Default version in the future.

FWIW, I would never advise having "auto-anything" as one's default for any photo editing. It's just too unpredictable. For example, crop some white out of the edge of an image and autoexposure will change the brightness of the rest of the image. Crop an unimportant but bright color out of an image and AWB will change the color on you.

YMMV,

Tom