When I open CDPaint RGB White appears yellowish. However, when I open CDDraw RGB White is white and when I then select Edit Bitmap from Draw and CDPaint opens, now RGB White is true white.
I've selected RGB profiles for the default and document profiles. I've also selected the North American Prepress presets. I running Windows Vista with a high quality Samsung flat screen.
How can CDPaint White look yellowish when Paint is opened from the desktop but display as true white when opened from CDDraw? When the two instances of Paint are open side by side on the desktop and displaying the same image, the same colors display differently.
Hi Vic,
If you have CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5, try to see if there are any differences in the Colour Management settings. If you open both programs side by side, try look in both programs Colour Management Default as well as document settings. Its located under Tools | Color Management >See if there are any odd color profiles being used for the screen.
I dont say this will solve it, but worth a first try in troubleshooting.Here is a link to screen shots of the settings on my blog (english language) http://stefanlindblad-english.blogspot.com/2010/11/coreldraw-graphics-suite.html
Vic Andersen said:How can CDPaint White look yellowish when Paint is opened from the desktop but display as true white when opened from CDDraw?
Corel Photo-PAINT uses the CorelDRAW document colormanagement when an image is transported to PP from CD via edit bitmap.
It sounds likne you have the color management set differently in each application. You also may be doing different things to images color space when you open them.
www.graphicetchnology.com is my web site and i have a color management book for X5 there.
Usually white color appearing yellowish is caused by faulty display color profile, you would need to remove this color profile from OS color management settings, read Q&A section at page 28 or Designer's Color Management Guide on how to accomplish that:
http://community.coreldraw.com/wikis/howto/designer-s-guide-to-color-management.aspx
Not sure this is your situation though - faulty display color profile affects both Draw and PhotoPaint. In your case the problem might be because you have modified default CM settings in PP to use incorrect RGB color profile. Make sure to revert to Corel's factory default CM settings first and examine whether your previous CM settings made sense.
Gennady
I have definately identified the Samsung monitor ICC color profile as the cause of the yellow tinted whites. I fixed the problem by deleting it from the system color management profile. Vista kept reloading it even though I had set the generic RGB profile as the default.
The interesting thing is that Paint displayed tinted whites but when Paint was launched from Draw, White was snow-white. This is true even when al three applications are side by side on the desktop. I have a good screen shot of this.
Thanks
VicScorpio
Vic Andersen said:I have a good screen shot of this.
Please post that shot if you can.