Not every 'photo editor' is capable of color management. When you profile your monitor you place the profile (in a place where) it is 'in-line' with graphics sent to the monitor (so far so good). But if the editor is not reading the colorspace tag on a file, or not using it properly or at all, then what goes into that pipeline to the monitor is anybodies guess.
Like-wise, if you don't turn the color managment ON. I suspect you don't have it activated in Photoshop--well, beyond the defaults.
The whole mess gets quite involved but it starts with knowing what programs (with version numbers) and in what order you do the workflow; so give that up and folks will know where to chime-in.
Originally posted by nystateofmind27 Hey gang,
I'm getting frustrated getting colors to look right on my monitor. For some reason, my photos are not independent on which application i use to view them, as it should be imo.
For example, i shot a few RAW shots and i processed one using Pentax Lab to my liking and saved to JPG sRGB. I opened up the photo with the default photo viewer (office photo manager) and it looks more or less how i processed it with Pentax Lab. I now opened the same photo with Photoshop and it looks completely different than the other 2 programs; colors are less saturated and the WB looks a bit different too.
See a photo of the comparison at
http://www.njee.com/temp/color/color.jpg
My monitor is profiled with Spyder2PRO.
Thanks,
Peter