Photos have a red cast

[shessel]

HELP please. Have Windows 7 Ultimate with Photoshop CS5 & Epson R3000 printer. Everything had been working swell, but now all of my photos have a red cast and people look sunburned. Photos look good when imported from camera and in Bridge thumbnails, but in Windows Photo Gallery or Photoshop everything turns red, and that's how photos print too. There seems to be plenty of discussion about this on web sites, but I can't find anyone with the step-by-step solution. If you know the fix, I would be thrilled. Thank you, Steve

 

[maxie]

Hi Shessel Welcome to Windows 7 Forum This does seem to be a common problem with many given solutions given on the web try the one below and see if it helps any ?

How to Remove a Color Cast - Tutorials

 

[kingscurate]

That magenta cast to your photos is caused by the digi camera sensor. Most camera will produce either a magenta cast or green. Thats why its a common issue on the web.
I will make an assumption and say these pictures are jpegs and not raw files. If you only shoot in jpeg, imo photoshop is a bit overkill.
To get rid of the cast there are numerous ways, open up the pic in photoshop camera raw and use auto develop settings. Have a special look at the white balance sliders and adjust the tint slider(shift to green ) bit by bit.
If the pics were raw you could have great fun learning how to post process a digital image!
If you cant open the image in acr, then you can do an adjustment layer and adjust the colour channel accordingly.
Also try adobe website for adobe tv they can provide some good tutorials, far better than my explanation.

 

[shessel]

King, thank you for the tip. I am shooting in jpeg and this has never been a problem before; any idea why it started now?
Thank you, Steve

 

[dsperber]

HELP please. Have Windows 7 Ultimate with Photoshop CS5 & Epson R3000 printer. Everything had been working swell, but now all of my photos have a red cast and people look sunburned. Photos look good when imported from camera and in Bridge thumbnails, but in Windows Photo Gallery or Photoshop everything turns red, and that's how photos print too.

How about posting just one sample picture which you say "looks good when imported from camera". I'd like to download it myself and see if it looks good in each of the various image viewer products I have, including Photoshop CS6.

You're suggesting that the original JPG looks good and somehow changes color when you open it in Photoshop? With what viewing software are you looking at the newly imported JPG's with? What camera are you using? What transfer software are you using to import the JPG's from camera to PC?

Posting one sample would be helpful.

 

[cyclic]

Things like that can also be affected by your monitor colour settings, photo manipulation programs usually have a utility to adjust accordingly. I would be interested to know what these look like if you print one ?

 

[Britton30]

Things like that can also be affected by your monitor colour settings, photo manipulation programs usually have a utility to adjust accordingly. I would be interested to know what these look like if you print one ?

OP stated they print poorly as well.

Echoing dsperber, a sample would be good.
Upload the actual image, not a snip.

This is the preferred, best way to upload an image to a post.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/9733-screenshots-files-upload-post-seven-forums.html#post93869
You may also upload a photo without using the Snipping tool.

 

[kingscurate]

They look good in thumbnail size because of the size, you cant detect the cast until print or full size. I had this problem using at first using a canon 40d imported into lightroom. Inexperience made me wonder like you what the problem was.
What are the images like full screen after importing in bridge?
Have they had any adjustments to them on import, likewise with PS. You may have accidentally added an import adjustment. Or are you using one of adobes camera profiles what you didnt once use?
Check the settings in camera, EG if its a canon dslr on the menu goto picture style and use a preset or create your own and zero all settings.
Clear preferences in PS or even uninstall and reinstall, BUT make sure you have all serial numbers if its an upgrade. Do not uninstall unless you have the serial numbers of all versions.
Although the same principles apply using PS and LR(both adobe)whereas camera raw is concerned,i cant get my head round PS, but if you can get the image to open in ACR, you will see the white balance sliders, adjust the tint and see what happens.

Let us know how you get on

 

[jimbo45]

Hi there
there are loads of possible reasons why this might be happening

You might need to check any or all of these

1) Inks -- one of the colours might not be functioning 100% correctly -- try the "utilities" to clean the jets.
2) Colour calibration of monitor -- your monitor might be out so the picture you see on the screen doesn't print the same as on the photo.
3) Quality of paper --yes this can make a difference.
4) Printing - do you let Photoshop or the printer do colour adjustment -- often it's best on the CHEAPER printers to let the printer apply the colour corrections rather than photoshop
5) Have you set all the photoshop colour options correctly.(Set via edit==>Colour settings (CS6)
There's a HUGE range of possibilities -- You'll just have to try and experiment. There's too many options to attempt to fix this without having a copy of the file so I can see what it looks like on a decent monitor.

Cheers
jimbo

 

[dsperber]

I am shooting in jpeg and this has never been a problem before; any idea why it started now?

Can't help you unless you upload an actual sample of one of these JPG's which you say exhibits the symptom, so that at least several of us can examine the JPG in our own environment for ourselves.

As was explained, attach the true original untouched JPG file itself to your post just as you got it out of the camera... not a screenshot of it as displayed on your monitor in some application (although we understand it is when displayed by some application or when being printed that you say the color shift occurs). Also, no re-size or manipulation. Just the true original JPG, so that we can work with it ourselves.

Thanks. We'll be glad to help and try to explain what you're seeing, but we need that sample from you.

 

[shessel]

Photos have RED cast - Your worst nightmare.

Adobe Community: Printing magenta/red with CS5 forums.adobe.com/thread/677627?start=120&tstart=0
Hello: please take a look at this Adobe threat, started 2 yrs ago and still active. This is the problem I have and it is STILL unresolved, and from my web searches, there are a rather large number of unhappy folks still searching for a cure for this issue ... still no solution from Adobe either. The jpegs. come out of my Nikon D3 just fine, load into Photoshop just fine (color "normal"), as soon as Photoshop loads the screen blips, then all (ALL) pic in the file are overlaid with a magenta cast. This is not a color cast issue for just the adjustment of one picture, it is the entire picture series in a file; like a red virus. I have tried reinstalling CS5 and Epson drivers with no luck; this issue simply renders use of Photoshop and any printer a red mess. I have Windows 7/32 and Epson R3000 printer. I will attempt to attach a sample photo:.

 

[mjf]

A fault with the color management profile can cause problems. Photoshop is color managed.
Type color management in the search orb - add SRGB if it it isn't already there and set it as default with use my settings ticked. See if this makes a difference. You can always change this back.
Ideally you should have a calibrated color profile for your monitor. Sometimes the manufacturers profile are wrong (yes crazy isn't it). Without a hardware colorimeter I think this software is pretty good and way better that the inbuilt Windows calibration-
Calibrize

 

[dsperber]

This is the problem I have and it is STILL unresolved, and from my web searches, there are a rather large number of unhappy folks still searching for a cure for this issue ... still no solution from Adobe either. The jpegs. come out of my Nikon D3 just fine, load into Photoshop just fine (color "normal"), as soon as Photoshop loads the screen blips, then all (ALL) pic in the file are overlaid with a magenta cast.

For the last time, I request that you upload the actual JPG's you are showing here.

You may be 100% correct in your observation of some problem about something triggering the magenta color change. But lots of us here would like to see it for ourselves, since I for one have NEVER EVER SEEN THIS SYMPTOM with pictures imported from my original D200 from years ago, and my D300 for the past few years. I have NEVER SEEN THIS SYMPTOM, and I've used Photoshop starting from v3 up through v4, v5, v6, CS3, CS5 and now CS6.

This is not to say I won't see it with your particular shots from your D3. But if you persist in NOT letting us try and see if we can duplicate your problem using YOUR ACTUAL JPG's (not screenshots of a Photoshop window as you've done here), it will simply be impossible for anybody to help you out.

Please... post the actual JPG's you are showing in that PS screenshot, and let us see for ourselves whether or not we duplicate your symptom or not.

Please.

 

[shessel]

dsperber ... yes, working on the camera upload. I am learning how to do this, so don't give-up just yet if it is not what is needed; I'll try again. I appreciate your assistance. Steve

 

[shessel]

Photos have red cast

mjf & dsperber:

I do have a Colormunlki photo and I have calibrated my monitors. Attached is a copy of the same (Crystal -red) photo, but directly from my camera via Windows 7> Pictures, prior to uploading to CS5. I hope this is what you want, but if not, can I please have a bit more instruction on how to provide a required photo. Thank you again, Steve

 

[kingscurate]

Download the trial version of lightroom and see what happens in there, and then you can edit in PS and see what happens again.
Join elements village forum, very helpful and friendly(not saying anyone here isnt), but it is a more photographic forum then this one.
The magenta is worse than i thought, i assumed it was similar to my own issue whereas it just had a slight tinge to it.
Those in the bridge screenshot are bad.

 

[shessel]

Photos have RED cast

Hi King...:
Good suggestions on the Elements site and Lightroom, I will do both.
If you back-up in this thread you will see an Adobe thread address for what is being reported about this issue on the Adobe Photoshop Forum; for the past 2 yrs. According to the Adobe Form, Lightroom is not a solution either. Adobe technicians are speculating this is caused by conflicting ICC codes. This might be a good "guess" on their part, but they are not providing a real working solution ... yet. The only response I've had from Adobe is, "this could be caused by many things, post your question on our Forum". Gerrrrrrrrrr!
Thank you, Steve

 

[kingscurate]

I know where you are coming from, Im surprised adobe aint found a solution. There is a guy on elements forum who works/admins on the adobe sites, he is quite knowledgeable.

 

[boohbah]

i have opened it in CS6 and dont see any red hues.

 

[dsperber]

That _DSC1331.JPG you uploaded was exactly what I wanted.

I have now opened the file in both Photoshop 6 (quite old), as well as Photoshop CS6 (latest). The results were identical in both cases: NO MAGENTA COLOR SHIFT.

Of course my monitor is an Eizo S2433W (24" LCD at 1920x1200 resolution), with ATI HD4850 video card, and I am NOT using any special ICC color profile. I have not "calibrated" the monitor and it is under the control of the Eizo "Screenmanager Pro" software. It is running PURE DEFAULT, as far as color.

Note that when I did open your JPG (in both 6 and CS6) I was advised that your JPG reflects the Adobe RGB 1998 color profile (obviously how your Nikon D3 is set up), whereas my own "working space" setup in Photoshop is sRGB. This article provides a very good comparison of the two.

Here are my own CS6 color settings:

Anyway, the fact that your JPG color differs from my Photoshop setup simply produced the message warning about this, asking me what I wanted to do about it.

Just to see what the effective difference was, I opened your JPG three times... each time selecting a different one of the three choices offered. Note that in NONE of them did the MAGENTA COLOR SHIFT occur. Hopefully the colors of the results shown below appear properly on your monitor.

(1) use the embedded color profile of Adobe RGB 1998

(2) convert the colors from your Adobe RGB 1998 to my "working space" sRGB colors:

(3) discard the embedded color profile of Adobe RGB 1998 and do not color manage at all (I'm not sure exactly what that means or does, but it's obvious that the color saturation drops off a bit and the result looks "paler", i.e. "less colorful"):

Once again, the results using CS6 were the same as using 6: NO MAGENTA COLOR SHIFT on my PC.

Did you have your own monitor "calibrated" using calibration software and colorimeter hardware? What CRT or LCD is your monitor? What video card and driver in your PC? Are you using an ICC color profile with your monitor?