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Subject: Color problem

Claymor opened this issue on Dec 06, 2005 · 5 posts
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Claymor ( ) posted Tue, 06 December 2005 at 1:39 AM · edited Wed, 15 January 2025 at 12:46 AM

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This piece has some REALLY good color pop on the red when it is in Photoshop. The PSD file looks great. But saving it out to a .jpg, even at max resolution, darkens it and it loses the dramatic feel. Is this a problem with the color settings in photoshop or am I missing something somewhere else? I seem to have been running into this lately but I can't think of anything I did to change color settings. Maybe it has been happening since I switched from 7 to CS and I am just ow noticing. Thanks!

Hoofdcommissaris ( ) posted Tue, 06 December 2005 at 3:34 AM

Hi. It looks great on my screen... Are you working on a Mac of a PC? I know, from experience that jpg's are displayed darker by PC (video cards) than on Mac. Once you are into 'Save for Web', there are a couple of 'color preview modes' that you can activate. I always set it to 'Windows color' to compensate for the darker end result. Sometimes I decline from saving and lighten up the picture (with a adjustment layer) before resaving for the web. If you are working on PC, I don't really know what could do this. But it reeks like a color management issue. Great picture!

archdruid ( ) posted Wed, 07 December 2005 at 4:35 AM

I don't have a solution for you, but I switched to CS2 lately, myself, and ended up with photoshop taking over control of my print output colour management.... got some interesting coulours... not what I wanted, though... Like Hoofdcommisaris says, it DOES look like a management issue... one thing, though, Windows has a tendency to try to take over management, too. Good luck with it. Lou.

"..... and that was when things got interestiing."

Raptura ( ) posted Wed, 21 December 2005 at 11:21 PM

This happens to me as well with Photoshop 7 and CS. I read here - http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=123320 - that my monitor might need calibrating so I tried that with still no luck.

Claymor ( ) posted Wed, 21 December 2005 at 11:43 PM

Yeah...not the monitor...since I can see the difference between the PSD and the JPG on the SAME monitor.

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