Re: Washed-out color?
- From: "Hymer" <ergobob@sonic[REMOVE].net>
- Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 20:02:14 -0700
I created several images using a light, bright green color: R=153,
G=204, B=0. The color looked perfect at the time but recently it
looks gray with a slight tint of green. It appears as if I have
lost the original color.
The loss of color appears to be system-wide, showing up in Power
Point, Word, Photoshop, etc. I checked the drivers for my monitor
and graphics card but there does not seem to be a better choice. It
is now using the Microsoft default drivers for both. The color
seems to be OK in general and is only noticeable with specific RGB
inspection.
The color was produced on this system and looked fine at the time.
This is an older system: Athlon 2500+ (1.8 gigs), Radeon 9600 (128
mb), 512 mb RAM, Sony 500PS monitor, XP Pro SP2.
Can anyone suggest what might be doing this and what I might try to
correct it?
The timeline is a reasonably light shade of green on both of my
monitors, so it's either a monitor problem, or a monitor setup
problem. Your particular monitor is a very sophisticated one - the
last of the CRT Mohicans. It has its own drivers, distinct from the
video card drivers, and even a stand alone self test mode. I would
go through the drill that Sony provides and see if the monitor
passes its own tests:
<http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/model-faq.pl?mdl=GDM500PS#>
Disable any screen calibration software you may have installed, and
run Adobe Gamma . Keep the sliders ganged together. It could be a
failed gun in the monitor, though this is less likely since you said
that most colors look OK, and the self test should detect that. In
any case, it's worth swapping monitors to see if the problem follows
the monitor - if it does, it's back to the Sony page to mess with
the monitor's color controls and monitor's driver software.
Thank you very much Mike. I will work on it and see what happens.
Much appreciated.
Bob
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