I have a color question

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Brett Baisley
Nov 29, 2003
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I’ve been designing this file for school in Photoshop 7. I got it looking exactly the way i want on the screen and saved as a psd file. I think proceeded to save it as a jpg to pass it, but when I open it on a computer in the lab, or even on my computer here using Windows Image Viewer, the colors are a lot darker. Not the same as in photoshop at all.

I then imported a jpg that I know the colors are correct, but inside Photoshop, they appear darker. However, when I have it, they look the same.

Is there a color scheme setting or something for the display in photoshop that needs to be set? Its kinda annoying working with colors that don’t match in the end.

Thanks.

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n8 skow
Nov 29, 2003
Flip to your index and look for Color Profiles… Also, did you create the image as CMYK or RGB?

n8

I’ve been designing this file for school in Photoshop 7. I got it looking exactly the way i want on the screen and saved as a psd file. I think proceeded to save it as a jpg to pass it, but when I open it on a computer in the lab, or even on my computer here using Windows Image Viewer, the colors are a lot darker. Not the same as in photoshop at all.
I then imported a jpg that I know the colors are correct, but inside Photoshop, they appear darker. However, when I have it, they look the
same.
Is there a color scheme setting or something for the display in photoshop that needs to be set? Its kinda annoying working with colors that don’t match in the end.

Thanks.

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tacitr
Nov 29, 2003
I then imported a jpg that I know the colors are correct, but inside Photoshop, they appear darker. However, when I have it, they look the same.

Yes. Every monitor displays color slightly differently, and different monitors of the same brand will display color differently if the monitor’s settings are different.

Read the section on "color management" in your Photoshop manual. Color management is a system for getting images to look the same on different computers.


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Uni
Nov 29, 2003
Tacit wrote:
I then imported a jpg that I know the colors are correct, but inside Photoshop, they appear darker. However, when I have it, they look the same.

Yes. Every monitor displays color slightly differently, and different monitors of the same brand will display color differently if the monitor’s settings are different.

May I add, this only holds true for CRT (soon to be obsolete technology) monitors.

Uni

Read the section on "color management" in your Photoshop manual. Color management is a system for getting images to look the same on different computers.
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n8 skow
Nov 29, 2003
Digital displays aren’t created equal either…

n8

I then imported a jpg that I know the colors are correct, but inside Photoshop, they appear darker. However, when I have it, they look the
same.
Yes. Every monitor displays color slightly differently, and different
monitors
of the same brand will display color differently if the monitor’s
settings are
different.

May I add, this only holds true for CRT (soon to be obsolete technology) monitors.

Uni

Read the section on "color management" in your Photoshop manual. Color management is a system for getting images to look the same on different computers.

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Brett Baisley
Nov 30, 2003
Ahh yes. The Color Profile in Photoshop was set for Web Optimized, I just changed the display color to my monitor and it looks a lot closer to what it really should. That must be what was wrong.

Thanks for your input guys!

"n8 skow" wrote in message
Flip to your index and look for Color Profiles… Also, did you create the image as CMYK or RGB?

n8

I’ve been designing this file for school in Photoshop 7. I got it
looking
exactly the way i want on the screen and saved as a psd file. I think proceeded to save it as a jpg to pass it, but when I open it on a
computer
in the lab, or even on my computer here using Windows Image Viewer, the colors are a lot darker. Not the same as in photoshop at all.
I then imported a jpg that I know the colors are correct, but inside Photoshop, they appear darker. However, when I have it, they look the
same.
Is there a color scheme setting or something for the display in
photoshop
that needs to be set? Its kinda annoying working with colors that don’t match in the end.

Thanks.

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