Help -mismatch colour after calibration

YeGods

Firstly - happy holidays everyone.
Now, down to business. I'm a few years into photograpy and use both photoshop cs5 and Lightroom 3 all the time. I'm having a serious problem with my colour management. I'm using a brand new HP Pavilion G6 laptop. Windows 7 intel i3 - all the usual stuff. It has a very purple cast or hue on the display. I've tried the windows clolour calibration but can't seem to get rid of it. I then used a spyder2express colorimeter with 2.3.6 rev software and bang and the problem is gone. The colours look perfect - except, now all my images in photoshop look horrifically yellow. Same problem with lightroom. It must be an adobe thing as the colours look fine with everything else (e.g. microsoft office picture management). So I have to go back to my original colour profile and restart the laptop to get the yellows back to normal in photohop and lightroom. I had the same problem with my older HP(vista) laptop and just went back to the original profile but I didn't have the purple cast problem so it didn't matter too much. anybody else come across this before? I've tried trawling the net but didn't come accross anything that worked yet.

sineadw

Have you tried printing anything? It's odd that you're getting 'normal' colour representation outside Adobe, but if your calibration was way off, it might just be that you've processed everything yellow to compensate for the purple tinge you had. When you PP shots in PS or LR now (with new calibration) do they still look ok outside Adobe?

Have you looked at getting the laptop replaced?

YeGods

Thanks sineadw. I haven't tried printing as I can't get over how yellow everything is. I wouldn't be able to ignore the yellowness when processing an image. all flesh tones are really really yellow. The same thing happened on my older HP laptop and that had no purple tint/hue.
I've just tried your suggestion and saved an image with the horrible yellow (in photoshop) and the colours look fine outside of photoshop (microsoft picture manager). Adobe is just freaking out with yellow colours.
It must be some kind of double profiling that only effects the adobe colours.
I could try returning the laptop but I'd still have the same (yellow problem) when I try to calibrate (regardless of the purple hue).

sineadw

In Photoshop, what are your colour settings? Go to Edit > Colour Settings and in the first box choose 'Europe PrePress 3' (or similar) and see if that helps at all?

oshead

Sounds like your working space is off. Trying Sineads suggestion might work.

YeGods

Sorry for the delay in replying.
I've spent the last 1.5 hours on the phone to HP service lads. about 1 hour of this was trying to explain the problem. They uninstalled the original graphic driver and reinstalled it again (as I had already checked for updates) but the display is the same. A kind of purple hue over everything that goes away if I user the spyder colour profile but it still effects the adobe colours. it could be something to do with doble profiling but I don't know enough about that kind of thing. It seems to be a software problem tha requires a harware fix. I can try and get a different laptop - without the purple hue, but I still won't be able to calibrate the colours of even be sure that they're right with the new laptop.

I've tried changing the colour settings to all different types but the result is the same. There is a tick bok at the bottom that allows me to desatureate monitor colours by what ever precentage I want. Around 40% is similar to original photo colours with regards to yellow but it does desature everything a bit too much to work with. The search goes on.

oshead

Just a thought, check and see if adobe gamma is installed and if so remove it....

YeGods

nope - no adobe gamma that I can find. i'm running windows 7 so it shouldn't be included anyway on CS5 but I checked and didn't find it anyway.

stcstc

has the monitor profile actually been installed correctly by the software

i know some of the calibrators had major updates for win7

make sure you only have 1 application installed, ie if your using the spyder calibrator, make sure its the only calibration software installed

YeGods

program is installed fully, just one program but it's still the same. way too much yellow with adobe programs.