Viewing sharpened image looks wrong on my NEC but

[nebulaoperator]

Hi all,

I use Photoshop CC. Today I came across this image on my NEC where I sharpened and added a bit clarity image looks just to find that image looks very wrong in photoshop but OK in ACR. Then I uploaded same image with same settings on my MAc Pro Retina however image looked perfectly fine in both ACR and photoshop. Then I cranked up clarity to a max and sharpening in ACR to a max too 115 1.0 25 0 image remained fine viewing on both ACR and photoshop on Mac.
Here is upload:http://i1119.photobucket.com/albums/...psqqtqidhi.jpg

I am using NEC Multisync PA241W w. Calibrated a week ago.
Thanks

[nebulaoperator]

Re: Viewing sharpened image looks wrong on my NEC

Still hope someone will come forward and give me advice..bump
Just to mention a couple of days ago I have connected my MAcbook Pro 2014 to the NEC display and had no problem whatsoever. Same image at same zoom level same settings...I begin to suspect it could be graphic card.

[Doug Nelson]

Re: Viewing sharpened image looks wrong on my NEC

What do you mean "very wrong"? And is it just this one image that is affected? And under Performance prefs do you have Graphics Processor enabled? Try toggling that last one, restarting, and see if there's a difference.

[nebulaoperator]

Re: Viewing sharpened image looks wrong on my NEC

Doug,

Have you looked at my link? There is image neck by neck. Do you see any difference? Most, would say all images affected. It started not long ago maybe few months.
Graphic perfomance is on here is my screenshot: http://i1119.photobucket.com/albums/...pspxjdwqdi.jpg

[Doug Nelson]

Re: Viewing sharpened image looks wrong on my NEC

The NEC image seems noisier. What puzzles me, though, is that you can capture the difference with a screencap (unless you pointed a camera at the screen).

[nebulaoperator]

Re: Viewing sharpened image looks wrong on my NEC

Yes it's noisier.If I gently zoom in and out I can see as if detail is failed to be rendered as if delaying to render properly. Sometimes it looks like noise especially when zoomed out smaller than "fit to screen" size and if zoomed a bit more it looks like tiny blocky clusters.

If you think graphic card is doing rendering for CC and CC translating it . While the screenshot is done not via CC . I don't know maybe GC is not coping anymore, maybe CC is not working properly.

[Doug Nelson]

Re: Viewing sharpened image looks wrong on my NEC

My first impulse is that it has nothing to do with the monitor, since you can screencap the difference (which bypasses the monitor). And it is the same computer and the same Photoshop, so that only leaves the graphics card handling the two monitors differently for some reason.

[nebulaoperator]

Re: Viewing sharpened image looks wrong on my NEC

There is only one monitor NEC. Normally PC is connected to it . Same PC has "faulty" card. I also have Macbook Pro 15" which I connected to monitor via Displayport cable and image rendering was perfectly fine. Macbook Pro alone, also does fault free rendering on the same image, which leaves me to suspect GC on my PC.
At the first I was suspecting monitor but after experimenting it was deducted from the list.

[Doug Nelson]

Re: Viewing sharpened image looks wrong on my NEC

Ah, ok, things a little clearer now. So you've taken the funny-looking file from one computer to the other and it looks fine? And you've taken a fine-looking file on the Mac and seen it turn "wrong" on the PC?

[nebulaoperator]

Re: Viewing sharpened image looks wrong on my NEC

)..Let me try again:
"Ah, ok, things a little clearer now. So you've taken the funny-looking file from one computer to the other and it looks fine?" Funny file only looks wrong when viewed on NEC via my PC.( mind you I looked at RAW file)
Same RAW file exactly same settings viewed on MacBook Pro looks fine.
Same RAW file exactly same settings viewed on NEC connected to MAcBook Pro looks fine.
Out of three variables image looks wrong when my PC is used. We are getting there Hope it makes sense.

[Doug Nelson]

Re: Viewing sharpened image looks wrong on my NEC

Ok, image looks fine on Mac, with both builtin screen and NEC screen.
Same image looks wrong on PC, but only NEC screen is available for testing, but it is the same NEC screen that has previously shown the image looking fine.
Screencap on PC looks noisy, screencap on Mac looks smooth.

Have you tried viewing files in non-PS programs on both?

I had a similar problem many years ago and it turned out to be the way PS handled screen display on PCs. That particular issue has gone away due to tech advances, but I'm wondering if something similar isn't at play. Have you tried disabling the graphics processor pref on the PC?

[nebulaoperator]

Re: Viewing sharpened image looks wrong on my NEC

"Ok, image looks fine on Mac, with both built in screen and NEC screen.
Same image looks wrong on PC, but only NEC screen is available for testing, but it is the same NEC screen that has previously shown the image looking fine.
Screencap on PC looks noisy, screencap on Mac looks smooth."
Correct. Can I just add that screencap on NEC looks only noisy if PC used.
I have tired C1 Pro and no problem though I had to save image as TIFF. Funny enough Adobe bridge, Adobe Camera RAW has no signs of fault too. it's getting tricky .Have a look here:

http://i1119.photobucket.com/albums/k621/nebulaoperator/CCvsAB_zpsfowjxkit.jpg

http://i1119.photobucket.com/albums/k621/nebulaoperator/CCvsACR_zpsehxr6fuc.jpg

http://i1119.photobucket.com/albums/k621/nebulaoperator/CCvsC1_zpsbhoa3xcb.jpg

[Doug Nelson]

Re: Viewing sharpened image looks wrong on my NEC

You've definitely narrowed it down to the Windows version of Photoshop, so I suspect the advanced graphics prefs in the Windows version are mismatched to your graphics card.

Let's hope some other voices chime in, as that's about the last of my ideas.

[nebulaoperator]

Re: Viewing sharpened image looks wrong on my NEC

I will try to reset photoshop tomorrow and see if it helps.

[Tony W]

Re: Viewing sharpened image looks wrong on my NEC

The issue may be caused by either the GPU settings relating to Advanced settings particularly if you have an unsupported card. I have an issue on occasion with a totally black screen which can be cured by switching advanced off (this on cs6)
Or more likely
I think that it could also be caused by cache level settings too low, which may be affecting the rendering. So a suggestion would be to check the effect of increasing levels by a good magin. Hope that this may be of some help