Photoshop and windows picture viewer

[Izzy]

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/5310/jpgwtfkw2.jpg
Why do images viewed in photoshop/firefox/ie look normal, when windows picture viewer looks like shit? This is new since I installed CS3. Unless I never noticed it before...

[Stromgarde]

I can't really see what you're referring to there, but the picture viewer display size is a few pixels bigger than the other one. Make sure it's scaled correctly?

[Izzy]

I can't really see what you're referring to there, but the picture viewer display size is a few pixels bigger than the other one. Make sure it's scaled correctly?

I just scaled it down so it would fit in a forum post. Can you really not see it?

[Cephius]

I must be missing something, besides maybe a change in aspect ratio, they look exactly the same

[Izzy]

Ignore the image size, ignore the aspect ratio (even though it's not even changed). It looks the same way full size. I didn't wanna post a 1680x1050 image on the boards.

Look at the shading where the darker area is. The photoshop/ie/etc version on the left looks normal. The one on the right is really blocky and isn't shading properly.

[Racey]

I ran into the same problem with CS3 and Vista's image viewer. In anything else its normal but in the windows viewer, if you have both raster and vector images, it will only display the vector images. Pretty sure its a problem between CS3 and windows image viewer in general, Photoshop CS3 has created more problems between the two for me than Illustrator or Indesign.

[Izzy]

I ran into the same problem with CS3 and Vista's image viewer. In anything else its normal but in the windows viewer, if you have both raster and vector images, it will only display the vector images. Pretty sure its a problem between CS3 and windows image viewer in general, Photoshop CS3 has created more problems between the two for me than Illustrator or Indesign.

I'm wondering if I could change the default color profile to something else. Would that affect this at all?

[Snowknight26]

The viewer uses your monitor's color profile and happens to display it brighter than normal.

Try removing your color profile and using the default one.

[Iremire]

I can see what you're talking about and i think photoshop and windows use a different color viewer like snowknight said.

[GSDragoon]

Edit > Prefrences > General

Color Picker and Image Interpolation

File > New > Advanced button

Color Profile


That's my only guesses (I'm using CS2, so if something is different, that's why)

You are also not viewing them at the exact same size. For Photoshop you have it at 50% zoom. Windows Picture viewer, somewhere close, but no the same. Also, since one is a quick picture viewer, it may do some simple editing on the fly for quick viewing.

[Racey]

I ran into the same problem with CS3 and Vista's image viewer. In anything else its normal but in the windows viewer, if you have both raster and vector images, it will only display the vector images. Pretty sure its a problem between CS3 and windows image viewer in general, Photoshop CS3 has created more problems between the two for me than Illustrator or Indesign.

I'm wondering if I could change the default color profile to something else. Would that affect this at all?

Since your problem seems to be a brightness/color issue its worth a shot. I assume you don't have any ICC/color management software working for you. Worst case, you try it, it doesn't work, you change it back and say fuck it? Don't wanna get your hopes up though as I've always been led to believe w/o color management software you can never guarantee a consistency between the colors in a image when you view/print. Changing the profile in Photoshop may do what I expect it to and just change the way things look in photoshop only.