why are jpgs darker in emails than in PS?

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Jan 22, 2006
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workspace Adobe RGB(1998)
calibrated monitor

why do files appear darker when attached to and viewed in emails than they do when prepared in PS?

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Voivod
Jan 22, 2006
On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 22:47:19 -0500, "frankg"
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workspace Adobe RGB(1998)
calibrated monitor

why do files appear darker when attached to and viewed in emails than they do when prepared in PS?

Because Outhouse Express sucks.
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Wizard of Draws
Jan 22, 2006
On 1/21/06 10:47 PM, in article
9fDAf.21357$, "frankg"
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workspace Adobe RGB(1998)
calibrated monitor

why do files appear darker when attached to and viewed in emails than they do when prepared in PS?

Because your email program isn’t a graphics program?
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jaSPAMc
Jan 22, 2006
On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 22:47:19 -0500, "frankg" found these unused words floating about:

workspace Adobe RGB(1998)
calibrated monitor

why do files appear darker when attached to and viewed in emails than they do when prepared in PS?

Because you’re operating PS in a different colour profile than the rest of the computer world uses?
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Tacit
Jan 23, 2006
In article <9fDAf.21357$>,
"frankg" wrote:

why do files appear darker when attached to and viewed in emails than they do when prepared in PS?

Photoshop uses color management. It changes the color you see on your screen in order to compensate for your exact brand of color monitor and your working color profile. The idea behind doing this is the picture will look exactly the same on different brands of monitors.

Other programs do not do color management.

To see the picture the way it will look in other programs, use View -> Proof Setup -> Monitor RGB. To understand what is happening and why, read the chapter on "Color Management" in your manual.

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