Saved images (jpg) washed out compared to CS3 working image

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Jun 2, 2008
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I am having a heck of a time figuring out this one. Images composed in CS3 and saved as JPGs look different. That is, the source image – on the screen in CS3, or the working image, looks the way I want it. Then I save it as a JPG and it looks washed out when viewed in any other application or browser. It is like someone turned the gamma way up on the JPG version.

All my other graphics programs, Gimp, Polyview, etc.. do not have this behavior – that is , they behave normally.

This only happens on my home PC, CS3 behaves normally on my office PC. I have looked in color settings, color profiles, even have the correct ICM for my monitor. Driving me nuts.

Help!
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Jun 3, 2008
On Mon, 2 Jun 2008 16:15:34 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

I am having a heck of a time figuring out this one. Images composed in CS3 and saved as JPGs look different. That is, the source image – on the screen in CS3, or the working image, looks the way I want it. Then I save it as a JPG and it looks washed out when viewed in any other application or browser. It is like someone turned the gamma way up on the JPG version.

All my other graphics programs, Gimp, Polyview, etc.. do not have this behavior – that is , they behave normally.

This only happens on my home PC, CS3 behaves normally on my office PC. I have looked in color settings, color profiles, even have the correct ICM for my monitor. Driving me nuts.

Help!

Your monitor isn’t calibrated, that’s why that happens.
Photoshop allows you to use any number of color profiles, so if you go to "Edit….Color Settings…." you will see a window that has a box under the heading "Working Spaces". Now if you have a calibrated monitor, then you would have created a profile that your monitor is now using and that profile woul dhave a name that can be found under that heading. You would just choose that profile.
If you don’t have a calibrated monitor, then it’s a crap shoot. You can try using a working space of Adobe RGB 1998 and see how that looks, but the thing is, if your monitor isn’t calibrated, then what you see on your screen might not be what others see on their’s. They only way to insure that you’re seeing what most others are seeing is to calibrate your monitor.
Just this week I bought the Spyder Pro 3 to calibrate my monitor and it works very well. I’m happy with the results.

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Tacit
Jun 4, 2008
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I am having a heck of a time figuring out this one. Images composed in CS3 and saved as JPGs look different. That is, the source image – on the screen in CS3, or the working image, looks the way I want it. Then I save it as a JPG and it looks washed out when viewed in any other application or browser. It is like someone turned the gamma way up on the JPG version.

Read and understand the chapter on "color management" in your manual.

Photoshop does "color management." It changes the way pictures look on your screen to compensate for your exact brand of computer monitor and your working profile. Other programs, such as Web browsers (at least by default), do not do color management.

If you want to see your pictures in Photoshop the way that they will look in other programs, use "monitor RGB" as your working color space, or click on View->Proof Setup->Monitor RGB.

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