[synthfiend]

Ok, so I have a coworker that has a photo of 2 peeps shot in sRGB.
He opens it in the default windows image viewer and in explorer, and the colors in his face are orange-ish, but no really that bad. He opens it in photoshop on a calibrated monitor, and 25-30% of the saturation is gone. I opened it on my mac and it was pretty much the same as his pshop result. Spyder has told him that Windows can only see calibrated images in programs that support them, like photoshop, and not to trust anything else.

So, the question is, what does he trust? Premiere pro and photoshop, or what the rest of the OS is showing him?

[Thorzdad]

Trust what he saw on the calibrated monitor with Photoshop.

What Spyder was referring to is a color-managed workflow. When you calibrate a monitor you generate a small file called a profile. This is used to adjust the display so that it more accurately displays colors. Most normal applications are ignorant of these profiles because they don't do professional-level color work (most browsers, for instance) Pro apps, like Photoshop, DO utilize these color profiles to provide accurate color.

The Macintosh can utilize color-management on a system level via ColorSync, which is why the photo on your Mac agreed with the Photoshop display.

[synthfiend]

Thanks! I thought it would be something like that. Colorsync never even occured to me. I totally forgot that there's no such animal on Windows.

[analogue SPRINKLES]

sRGB is calibrated for old small PC CRT monitors. It makes blues look purple and purples black. Change the profile to anything else.