save for web: colors off

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Menno
Mar 9, 2005
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Hi there,

Using PS 7 on W2k and a custom monitor profile generated by Monacor EZcolor. I recently saved some PSD images as JPEG using the save for web command. However, the colors in the "save for web" window are quite off; skin tones are yellowish and the colours look bla. I must make the following adjustments to the original PSD imigage to make the JPEG look normal; Hue -5 … -10 and Saturation +20. Of course then the PSD looks horrible, but the JPEG looks normal. I checked the JPEGs with IE and Infraview. The PSD images are in the Adobe1998 colourspace which is also the standard working space I’m using.

I don’t remember having to do the Hue/Sat corrections before I started using the color profiles. What going wrong here? The monitor profile is activated in a separate program (outside Photoshop) on startup.

TIA,
Menno
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nomail
Mar 9, 2005
Menno wrote:

Using PS 7 on W2k and a custom monitor profile generated by Monacor EZcolor. I recently saved some PSD images as JPEG using the save for web command. However, the colors in the "save for web" window are quite off; skin tones are yellowish and the colours look bla. I must make the following adjustments to the original PSD imigage to make the JPEG look normal; Hue -5 .. -10 and Saturation +20. Of course then the PSD looks horrible, but the JPEG looks normal. I checked the JPEGs with IE and Infraview. The PSD images are in the Adobe1998 colourspace which is also the standard working space I’m using.

That’s where you went wrong. Web images are not color managed, and most browsers will use sRGB as deafult color space. What you are looking at is an AdobeRGB image displayed as if it were sRGB. Use ‘Convert to profile’ and convert to sRGB before you choose ‘Save for the web’.

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Menno
Mar 9, 2005
Johan W. Elzenga wrote:
Menno wrote:

Using PS 7 on W2k and a custom monitor profile generated by Monacor EZcolor. I recently saved some PSD images as JPEG using the save for web command. However, the colors in the "save for web" window are quite off; skin tones are yellowish and the colours look bla. I must make the following adjustments to the original PSD imigage to make the JPEG look normal; Hue -5 .. -10 and Saturation +20. Of course then the PSD looks horrible, but the JPEG looks normal. I checked the JPEGs with IE and Infraview. The PSD images are in the Adobe1998 colourspace which is also the standard working space I’m using.

That’s where you went wrong. Web images are not color managed, and most browsers will use sRGB as deafult color space. What you are looking at is an AdobeRGB image displayed as if it were sRGB. Use ‘Convert to profile’ and convert to sRGB before you choose ‘Save for the web’.

Makes sense. I’ll create an action for it. Bedankt.
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Mike Russell
Mar 10, 2005
Menno wrote:
Hi there,

Using PS 7 on W2k and a custom monitor profile generated by Monacor EZcolor. I recently saved some PSD images as JPEG using the save for web command. However, the colors in the "save for web" window are quite off; skin tones are yellowish and the colours look bla. I must make the following adjustments to the original PSD imigage to make the JPEG look normal; Hue -5 .. -10 and Saturation +20. Of course then the PSD looks horrible, but the JPEG looks normal. I checked the JPEGs with IE and Infraview. The PSD images are in the Adobe1998 colourspace which is also the standard working space I’m using.

Using Adobe RGB accounts for part of the problem – the decrease in saturation. Convert to sRGB before you save for web, and see if the images are acceptable.

The hue shift may be another problem altogether, perhaps involving how you’ve set up your display profile.

I don’t remember having to do the Hue/Sat corrections before I started using the color profiles. What going wrong here? The monitor profile is activated in a separate program (outside Photoshop) on startup.

There are several possibilities for this involving your monitor profile setup. The most likely is that you are running Adobe Gamma in addition to the monitor program supplied by Monaco. Pick one or the other, but not both.
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