Color changing when Saving Photo –

CB
Posted By
Cherie_Bosela
Oct 27, 2008
Views
330
Replies
3
Status
Closed
We sell coins on our website – So the color makes all the difference in the world to weather you want to buy the coin or not. We use a Nikon to take the pics – Pics come out great, the colors looks like actual coin when viewing in photoshop and in the XP viewer and when we ever have to print the pic. Here’s the problem, when we go to save for web its changes the color drastically. A penny that once had a red tone to it now has a brown tone. I’ve read all over the place for ways to fix it and we’ve tried them all. Changing the monitor color profile, converting the profile, etc. I understand that everyone’s monitors are different and everyone is gonna see it differently anyways, but it would be nice if the pic would like the same on our computer vs the website. It seems like when we first starting do this several yrs ago we didnt have this problem. Has things changed within the program and/or the web to have made these changes happen? Is this something we are gonna have to deal with? We dont have the time to adjust every single picture to make sure the save to web looks right.

ANY SUGGESTION….
Related Tags
change color save

Master Retouching Hair

Learn how to rescue details, remove flyaways, add volume, and enhance the definition of hair in any photo. We break down every tool and technique in Photoshop to get picture-perfect hair, every time.

JJ
Jim_Jordan
Oct 27, 2008
The typical ‘save for web’ function removes any color profile info. You can save an ICC profile with the image in ‘save for web’ but only a few browsers (Safari and optionally in Firefox) will care about it. Most folks view images without color management as sRGB.

This means that you probably need to be working on your images in sRGB. It seems you have a different profile right now.

It seems like when we first starting do this several yrs ago we didnt have this problem.

That is because we were not messing with color management then.
RK
Rob_Keijzer
Oct 27, 2008
Make sure to convert to sRGB before save for web. This can also be done on the fly in the SFW settings.

Rob
C
Curvemeister
Oct 28, 2008
What Rob said. SRGB is the key. Be sure to convert, and not assign, to sRGB.

To minimize the chances of error, I would also recommend capturing in sRGB from the get go, in camera, so that you do not have two types of images floating around.

Must-have mockup pack for every graphic designer 🔥🔥🔥

Easy-to-use drag-n-drop Photoshop scene creator with more than 2800 items.

Related Discussion Topics

Nice and short text about related topics in discussion sections