I just recalibrated my monitors with the Eye-One Diplay 2 that I recently purchased. We have two G5 Intel Power Macs (each with two monitors) and I used the Eye-One on all four of the monitors and all is well with the color except on one of the primary monitors. The color of the images in Photoshop and Preview all seem correct. The issue is that the color is not the same in Adobe Bridge. The images appear too vibrant and over saturated when viewed in Bridge.
Is there a way to adjust the color only in Bridge? Kinda lost on this one.

Thanks,

Michael

It sounds like you're saying PhotoShop and Preview display identical colors on all 4 monitors, but Adobe Bridge displays saturated colors on all four monitors. You have a complex setup.

I don't really know if this is your problem (since I don't own Bridge yet), but make sure you are using consistent color management modules (CMM's) from application to application.

Apple and Adobe use different CMM's. Apple uses ColorSync at the operating system level, and it's most likely that other software vendors will use ColorSync also. Adobe applications let you choose between CMM's (ColorSync or Adobe Color Engine).

ACE may inadvertently be selected in Bridge. If you can return Bridge to its default settings, that may help you.

If I don't understand your problem, a bunch of things could be wrong, and might be wrong regardless of my understanding.

1. If you haven't embedded profiles in your images, that could be a problem.
2. If you haven't assigned unique profiles to each monitor, that could be a problem.
3. If you haven't calibrated each monitor precisely the same, that could be a problem.

I don't use Bridge that often, other than to set a color flow for Adobe apps. All of mine have correct color (Bridge, Preview and Photoshop). So, there is something probably related to Bridge only.

I have a question. Is it crucial for you that the color in Bridge looks correct?

You can't print from Bridge - at least not with CS3, that I'm aware of. If the file looks right in Preview, and more importantly in Photoshop, then I wouldn't rely on the preview in Bridge. Most of your work, whether for web or print, will be done in Photoshop. As long as you are soft-proofing the image in Photoshop, and all of your other color management is synced, then you shouldn't really have too much of a concern with the preview in Bridge.

Have you tried printing the image? Does color look correct?

I suppose that if it really bugs you, that you could look for a solution for the incorrect color in Bridge. I'd suspect that the issue is within Bridge, though it could be a system color issue.

Read this: Inconsistent color in PS CS3 and Bridge CS3.
It may give you some insight to your issue.

Michael S needs to look at his color preference choices in different applications. I don't know what they look like in Bridge, but here's what I think are mostly default settings in PhotoShop CS1 (see photo below). From what I can discern so far, Michael needs to unify his color preferences across different applications.

Perceptual is the correct setting for most photo work. You may want to change the color engine to ColorSync. That is the only CMM choice in Preview, so for the sake of compatibility, try to use ColorSync, aka, Apple CMM. Preserve embedded profiles is the correct preference. Some kind of RGB working color space is correct, but sRGB is ALWAYS incorrect. { Too narrow a gamut - unfortunately, that's what most professional digital photo houses utilize. Gack! A Microsoft computer carryover from 1996 and another Microsoft proprietary standard opposing the ICC. }

An Alternative Set of Settings to get to the same place described above

Instead of my "custom" settings, you can choose "ColorSync Workflow," and then change "Intent" from "Relative Colorimetric" to "Perceptual" (at which point it becomes a another Custom Setting).

If colors are deeply saturated in Bridge, something may be set to sRGB in Michael's Adobe Bridge settings. Magazines and advertisers often use sRGB because the colors attract the eye, but the colors aren't natural.