Some slight frustration after having some hardware drivers installed accidentally via a Windows update. The frustration revolved around Photoshop and the colour management profile. Opening old and current projects gave the a message asking about different colour profiles to be used and I pinpointed it to the secondary monitor I plug into my laptop. However, I could not avoid this issue within Photoshop every time I opened an existing document. The image files would would have their whites look a similar shade to Richie Benaud’s wardrobe – beige, off white, bone and pink! Exporting the files for use on the web resulting in a similar headache where the white (cream) actually turned into a soft shade of blue!

Enough fooling around with the colour profiles in Photoshop, because it was getting no where. The problem kept re-appearing and thus I had to turn to Google. What on earth did we do with out Google before hand? I can’t remember but a solution was at hand. I was right it was to do with the recent Dell 1908FP monitor driver that was installed along with some ‘critical’ Windows updates the other week. All that was needed to revert to my true workspace colour environment was to remove the newly installed profile which had now become the default.

This can be done on XP via the following:

Go to Start > Settings > Control Panel > Display > Settings > Advanced > Color Management

Select the colour profile from the list and hit Remove.

Yay back to a sane colour environment.