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Why does Phoshop display pictures differently than my regular pic viewer?

I remember the good old days when Phoshop would display my pictures exactly like my ACDSee but not anymore. For god knows what reason when i open a file with PS cs2 it seems a lot brighter than it should, making editing a real burdain cause i always have to check how it will show up on normal viewing(please not that it's not ACDSee which display pictures differently but PS..MS default pic viewer shows them exactly as ACDsee does). Now it hasn't been a big deal since it's only recently i really got into photoshoping but i want to know what the problem is. I seem to remember playing with PS 7.0 and i didn't encounter this problem then.

Public Comments

1. Do you mean Adobe Photoshop? I don't remember having any problem when I upgraded from 7.0 to CS and then CS2. Try saving the pictures you have in the original format you got it and use the Windows Picture Viewer to see if there's any actual difference after saving it with photoshop
2. ACDSee V8 is color managed now. I wonder if you are using two different profiles for the two programs. Or alternately, you are using color mgt on CS2 and have it turned off for ACDSee.