CS3 generate web photo gallery-looks like crap

Help me out guys, I’ve recently upgraded to cs3 but now when I make a web photo gallery the colors look desaturated. Here is an example of a picture that I’ve opened from raw, then used the "save for web" function in photoshop, www.dustingodwinphoto.com/mom.jpg the colors looks exactly like I want them too, however when I use bridge and select the same picture and generate a web photo gallery the colors go to hell, see www.dustingodwinphoto.com/junk If you compare the image from the web photo gallery to the one generated by "save for web" you can see a huge difference! A friend of mine was trying to help me out but it turned out his is doing the exact same thing! I hope someone here can help me out, I have a bunch of galleries people are waiting to see but I don’t want to send them pictures that look like crap, thanks guys.
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Help me out guys, I’ve recently upgraded to cs3 but now when I make a web photo gallery the colors look desaturated. Here is an example of a picture that I’ve opened from raw, then used the "save for web" function in photoshop, www.dustingodwinphoto.com/mom.jpg the colors looks exactly like I want them too, however when I use bridge and select the same picture and generate a web photo gallery the colors go to hell, see www.dustingodwinphoto.com/junk If you compare the image from the web photo gallery to the one generated by "save for web" you can see a huge difference! A friend of mine was trying to help me out but it turned out his is doing the exact same thing! I hope someone here can help me out, I have a bunch of galleries people are waiting to see but I don’t want to send them pictures that look like crap, thanks guys.
D.

To make it easier to see the difference I’ve opened them both in photoshop, and then used the save for web function again. The picture on the right was the one originally saved with ":Save for web" and the one on the left is the one that was created using "generate web photo gallery" thanks. www.dustingodwinphoto.com/yuck.jpg

Does the original have Adobe RGB (1998) as the color profile? I think so because if you assign this profile to yuck.jpg, the left image looks normal.

Is there a way to batch assign them? The files are from a 20d processed from raw. This was some interesting reading but didn’t solve my problem http://forum.adobe.com/webx/.3bc4a6c3/0

All you need to do after Photoshopping the image is "Save for Web and Devices.." This can be batched. How were you saving images when you noticed the problem?

You don’t need to Convert or Assign a color profile. It’s removed anyway when you Save for Web.

All I’m doing is selecting the images in adobe bridge and then using the "generate web photo gallery" command. Using the save for web feature isn’t an option as I have about 1500 pictures to show different people (weddings and family pictures). If I use brdige and batch convert them to jpegs they look just fine but then I don’t get the "(c) Dustin Godwin photo" across the image so there is nothing to stop people from just taking them. This is what i can’t figure out, why when I batch convert to jpegs they look good but if I use the "generate web photo gallery" they look like crap.

Ignore the right hand image. Is the left one OK?

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b16/bjkdegree/yuck2.jpg

YES!! The left image looks like I want it too 😀 What did you do?? and thanks for the help!

YES!! The left image looks like I want it too 😀 What did you do?? and
thanks for the help!

I was just testing. This isn’t your answer, but then again it may be an easy way out.

I opened the image in PS and was asked to choose a Color Profile. If you are not asked, click Edit, Assign Profile. I chose Adobe RGB (1998). The left image now looks OK. Now choose Save for Web. You will note that the Original looks "sick" but the Optimized is still good.
I’d imagine your camera setting is Adobe RGB (1998). If it was sRGB you probably wouldn’t have the problem. But you may prefer the former Color Space.

Agree?

YAY! You’ve helped me figure out a way to make it work. I created an action to assign the color profile and then I can use the image processor in bridge to go over all of the images and reassign it. It’s to bad that the generate web photo gallery doesn’t keep it. It’s gonna be an extra step and the jpegs are going to be saved 2 times but the quality isn’t that important since they’re just online proofs. Yea the camera is adobe 1998, not sure if switching it to sRGB would work or not ( time to get a book on color management I think lol. I do use paper profiles when I print so what’s on my screen looks the same as on paper but that’s about as much as I know.)
Cheers!

not sure if switching it to sRGB would work or not ( time to get a book on color management

. Yea the camera is adobe 1998,

not sure if switching it to sRGB would work or not ( time to get a book on color management

I just ran a test using sRGB. It does work with creating a Web Photo Gallery from Bridge raw images. There is no color change. However Adobe RGB (1998) is supposed to be a better profile for printing.
I use sRGB but I do very little printing.