Mac newbie question: Saved images too bright

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Gordon
Aug 22, 2008
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I’ve recently moved from a PC to a Mac and from CS2 to CS3 version of Photoshop. I’ve noticed that after doing this, when I save an image out from Photoshop the result looks too bright when I view an image in any image viewer or web browser on the Mac, but the colours look as they were intended when reloading the image in Photoshop again. I’ve tried various settings for colour profiles (simply setting "Don’t colour manage this file" on Windows produced the expected result but doesn’t seem to work on the Mac), tried saving the file both with and without the embedded colour profile, but nothing I try seems to work.

This is getting very frustrating as I mostly produce images for web consumption and need to be able to RGB match colours precisely so that for example the image’s background colour matches against a CSS specified background colour. I tried searching Google and in this group but couldn’t find anything that looked useful. I’m surely not the only person to have run into this problem, can anyone help?
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Roy G
Aug 22, 2008
"Gordon" wrote in message
I’ve recently moved from a PC to a Mac and from CS2 to CS3 version of Photoshop. I’ve noticed that after doing this, when I save an image out from Photoshop the result looks too bright when I view an image in any image viewer or web browser on the Mac, but the colours look as they were intended when reloading the image in Photoshop again. I’ve tried various settings for colour profiles (simply setting "Don’t colour manage this file" on Windows produced the expected result but doesn’t seem to work on the Mac), tried saving the file both with and without the embedded colour profile, but nothing I try seems to work.

This is getting very frustrating as I mostly produce images for web consumption and need to be able to RGB match colours precisely so that for example the image’s background colour matches against a CSS specified background colour. I tried searching Google and in this group but couldn’t find anything that looked useful. I’m surely not the only person to have run into this problem, can anyone help?

Hi.

Read the Thread on the 16th

"how to fix the difference in color profiles between file view & actual view"

And study up on Colour Management in PS Help Files.

Roy G
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gowanoh
Aug 22, 2008
I do not have a solution for you but I admit I do not clearly understand what you are describing.
If you have created an RGB specified background color that matches the RGB analyzed object then these should display the same regardless of program, although they may not appear to have the same tonal values when viewed outside of Photoshop. That is the same in both Apple and Windows OSes. You are likely aware that monitor calibrated color management is intended for reasonably predictable WYSIWYG color printing. That is the same in both Apple and Windows OSes.
I presume you are aware that using other than dedicated graphics panels one frequently encounters the problem that color managed output, meaning prints, are darker than what is perceived on overly bright and not really adjustable LCD panels. Apple panels are consumer grade and subject to this like nearly all others. More than some, in fact.
If color matched printing is not your object but you want images to appear more or less similar in all programs it has been recommended to use Monitor RGB as your color space in Photoshop.
While some variation is common when viewing an image outside a color managed Photoshop environment it should not be all that extreme in either the Mac OS or Windows– even the abomination that is Vista. It could be that your color management settings in Photoshop may not be correct. Perhaps you are not creating your images in the appropriate color space to begin with.
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John J
Aug 23, 2008
Before diving into the hard parts, set your View – Proof Setup – (select appropriate view). You might find that it suffices for your purposes.

For accurate printing, etc, then get to the hard part.

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