Greetings!!

I have a rather strange situation here. I been working with Poser 6 and Photoshop 8 on my Dell using a 20 inch flat screen and NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE card.

When I create an image in Poser and render it everything looks fine, however when I save the render and try bringing it into Photoshop, I always suffer some kind of loss in either color intensity or bightness and then I try adjusting the levels in photoshop and it still doesn't come out right. I've also rendered the image using the highest settings in Poser and saving it as both a tiff image and a photoshop image but neither of these seem to make much difference.

And the odd part is I can also render something in Vue, bring it into Photoshop and even print it without much change so it makes me think this isn't a hardware issue or a problem with photoshop but rather something going on in Poser. Any thoughts ??

Thanks!
Steph

Try to set "compression" to zero (appears after you selected a filename).

Or save as PNG.

hmm...the compression option appears to be "grayed out" so there is no way to select anything and saving it as a png doesn't seem to make any noticable difference.

Thanks for your response though.....

All Poser servicepaks installed?

I think so...it says 6.0.3.140. I thought that was the most current.

do you have any idea what might be causing it ??

Just to make absolutely certain that it isn't Photoshop, have you tried opening the images in other image viewers/editors ? You can get a free one like irfanview or xnview and try in that and see if the render looks bad in there as well.

Also are your display card drivers current ?

Quote - Just to make absolutely certain that it isn't Photoshop, have you tried opening the images in other image viewers/editors ? You can get a free one like irfanview or xnview and try in that and see if the render looks bad in there as well.

Also are your display card drivers current ?

This is a good idea.   I would definitely open the image in another viewer and see what it looks like.  If the image looks okay in another viewer but not Photoshop, you might have a color management issue and need to set a different ICC profile.

Hmmm... I alwasys was figuring that the JPG compression thing was equal to most programs' JPG quality setting, so I'd always changed things to "100". No wonder why they looked like poo.

Oh well, I still prefer saving out as a PNG and import into Photoshop.

What may be happening is that your renders are in sRGB and you are importing the image as AdobeRGB. - sRGB is a standard 24bit color gamut - suitable for the web. - AdobeRGB has a greater color gamut that is required for certain printing services. This greater color gamut changes the range of green and magenta and WILL make sRGB images look completely wrong. To maintain the color of your renders, set your color management to allow you to choose a color profile when importing an image. You'll want to select sRGB. Photoshop help, should tell you how to set your color management. good luck jdc