color display problem, please help

The issue is color management. Photoshop is a color managed application, and the web is not.

You need to:

1. Calibrate your monitor using Adobe Gamma in control panel
2. Choose a Web Color Space for Photoshop (or sRGB), or turn color management off
3. Spend 15 minutes reading at Computer Darkroom <http://www.computer-darkroom.com/ps7-colour/ps7_1.htm>

Peace,
Tony

I’m not sure where your problem is. The best thing I can suggest is to recheck your setup by going through the steps at:
<http://www.computer-darkroom.com/ps7-colour/ps7_1.htm> He has a great site with a huge amount of useful color management information.

Gary

Set your proof colours to Monitor RGB and check View Proof Colours.

You will now see the same within Photoshop as you do in Save for Web (and in a browser)

Guest1234,

A few of things that might help you (and others) better understand what’s going on. The following is a simplification so those who know better should ignore it:

When you calibrate your monitor you do two things. Firstly you bring it to a predefined state (e.g. gamma 2.2 and a colour temperature of 6500 deg K). Secondly you establish the characteristics of YOUR monitor i.e. how it will render colour (measure the chromacity/phosphor values). The final ICC profile will contain all of this information. Photoshop uses all of this information – Windows and many other apps on the PC platform do NOT! If during the calibration/profiling process it is established that your monitor displays a particular colour wrongly then the monitor profile will describe this error. If the error was actually down to a user or instrument error during calibration then the monitor profile will contain information that will result in a correction (compensation) that isn’t required.

Within Photoshop you are always previewing an image in a colour managed environment – even when you choose "Color Management Off" in "Colour Settings". In this mode Photoshop uses your monitor profile (Monitor RGB) as the "working colour space". So even in this so called CM Off mode Photoshop "compensates" for the characteristics of YOUR monitor as defined by the monitor profile. As mentioned above it bases the compensation upon ALL of the information inside the monitor profile. On an accurately calibrated display this information will ensure a fairly accurate rendering of the image. Choosing "Web Graphics" in "Colour Settings" means that Photoshop uses sRGB (Windows RGB) as the working colour space. Again, Photoshop uses your monitor profile as the basis for the compensation thus ensuring an accurate preview.

Outside of Photoshop it’s generally the case that Windows and your other apps ignore the contents of the monitor profile and so no compensation for your monitor characteristics takes place. In other words your images are rarely going to appear "exactly" as they did in Photoshop. That said, if you used either Web Graphics or CM Off in Photoshop, then the differences should not be significant.

The difference you describe is significant and since you appear to be using the best option for Colour Settings it’s my guess that your monitor profile is bad. Did you use Adobe Gamma for calibration or some other software/hardware combination? If Adobe Gamma then that values did you choose for the Colour Temperature, Gamma and Phoshors? Again, if Adobe Gamma did you begin with the Compaq profile or sRGB?

Hi Lenhewitt,

You are the BEST!
This is it. Thank you very much.

Kind Regards,
Mike

Hi,

Thank you also for your reply. I appreciate your help. I solved the problem. It was with proof setup.

It was really kind of you to write such big reply and took the time to help me.

Kind regards,
Mike