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
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.
Vic Andersen said:Vista kept reloading it even though I had set the generic RGB profile as the default.
Vic Andersen said:The interesting thing is that Paint displayed tinted whites but when Paint was launched from Draw, White was snow-white.
Color management architecture of CGS guarantees that the same monitor color profile is used by both apps at any time, there is no way to change that. This is why I am skeptical the Samsung monitor ICC profile is the only culprit here. Check what RGB color profile your Draw document is using.
Gennady
Gennady Petrov said:Never heard about such thing and never experienced it myself.
Vista and Windows 7 CM dialogs are complex and I've seen it where the user thought they changed it and I've seen serious conflicts with video card control software big time.
David Milisock said:Vista and Windows 7 CM dialogs are complex and I've seen it where the user thought they changed
David Milisock said:I've seen serious conflicts with video card control software big time
Gennady Petrov said:While personally I do not think this dialog is complex I agree there are plenty of opportunities to make a mistake there.
You may be overestimating the average persons ability.
Gennady Petrov said:This is something I have not seen either, and I work with different video cards
Ok early on in the Visat cycle with Nvidia control panel there was in my opinion a bug with that software that would not allow you to either neutralize it or to disable it in the system, which needs to bew done for calibration. With my system that has since been rectified with an update from Nvidia. When the OS would restart the video card control panel would over ride the OS. I tested it by setting a custom profile in Windows and an un-natural setting in Nvidia then rebooting, As you watch the reboot you can see Windows load the ICC profile for the display. Many times it would use the video card control settings, this also happened with the authorization of a command. This was called a Vista bug by the MAC color gurus but in reality it was a video card issue on my system.
In my opinion the reluctance of people to do updates could be an issue and this ICC profile loading from an update is not helping things.