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'll ask this the photoshop forum too but thought I'd start here as I have had a lot of good suggestions/info in the past. Thanks!!

Is your quality-slider set to "High" or even "Maximum"? And what color setting do you have before saving it? RGB, CMYK...or something else? Have you flattened all the layers before saving it? Not really sure if any of these factors might cause lack of colors when saving, but it might be worth looking into.

I imagine it depends on what your monitor and card is. I see this as being really nice. Good contrast and nice reds. Just the right font lightness too.

I think it looks great the way it is. The colour tone is perfect from my point of view. When you save a jpg it will always reduce the amount of colour, but it shouldn't be all that visible unless you save it to a very small file. I don't know what you intend to use it for, but you can also try saving as a png if you plan to use it online. Otherwise if it's for print, use .tiff if you can. That's almost as lossless as you can go without actually saving as .psd. That's my two cent. C.

Ooops...i forgot to say what has already been said here. It DOES look fantastic on my end as well. I wouldnt wanna change a thing about it. #:O)

Thanks for the input!! Quality slider I've tried setting everywhere from high up to max, no real change, Color setting is RGB, don't think it is a monitor setting because I am looking at both the PSD and the JPG on the same machine. I will try PNG just to compare.

Unusual request, if I may: I work in the IT shop for a government agency. Lots of times, I get tasked with graphics support. In this particular case, the graphic the administrator chose for the annual Christmas celebration flyer was pretty bad. After telling them I couldn't fix it up, I suggested I look for another one. And I remembered this one. But, I don't use stuff unless I have permission. So, would you mind if I used your photo (without the Colorado) for (basically) an office-wide flyer (100 people) announcing our Christmas party? It would be in an email (and probably printed and taped to doors). And, as is usually the case, no compensation I'm afraid. (They had hard enough time understanding that I couldn't just take the image and use it!) So, if you wouldn't like me to use it, no hard feelings and certainly, no usage would occur. Regards, Chuck

Great image, I like it as is. My opinion is any more red would be overdoing it, and the subtle greens are perfect.

It sounds like you have a similar issue to mine, color shift from photoshop file to JPEG. Only for me, my images become more saturated when I go to save them for the web. I believe it is because of color preferrence setting in Photoshop, not that the file's colors are actually changing. So basically, you probably have one color space for working in Photoshop, and a different one for viewing the web and RGB images.

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After digging through multiple threads at PSGurus, it seems "Save for Web" is the way to go to minimize color loss. I myself have had good luck doing it that way. Occaisionally I find saving to BMP gives a good represention in RGB (much larger file) and then save to web. There are differences mixing photo & CG, You really have to leave room for experimenting. I usually work with large images and scale down once I'm ready to post. Nice work Curtis.