But I want to use my Spyder 4 calibration, and not the Window display calibration. If I apply the calibrated profile created by Windows, Adobe will display colors the same as in all other software. Oddly, this does not happen if I use the display calibration tool with Windows Color Management.
While the Spyder 4 profile is the default profile in Windows Color Management, sRGB embedded images will appear correct if I assign them the Spyder 4 profile or if I change monitor proof to the Spyder 4 profile. When I save a red 255 image while sRGB is set to the default profile, then open it while the spyder 4 profile is default, the red will be washed out, although the eye dropper still shows it as red 255. I tried filling the screen with 255, 0, 0, and the eye dropper tool shows it is, but when I take a screen shot and paste it back in, the eye dropper shows 255, 0, 45. Pasting screenshots seem to compound the shifting. You can clearly see Adobe shifting the colors strangely. Below is a screenshot of an image created and embedded with a sRGB profile. Everything looks much better, removing the yellow hue that my monitor produces, except in Adobe software, which seems to apply the calibration twice, white washing and adding a green hue to images.
I applied the calibration ICC profile created by Spyder 4 Pro as the default profile for my VPCSE13FX Sony Vaio SE laptop screen in Windows Color Management.
I am trying to use my recently purchased Spyder 4 Pro display calibrator, but I am encountering a problem with Adobe software and Windows Photo Viewer shifting colors while Gimp, Picasa, Firefox, and Windows explorer does not.