Photoshop "Save for Web" tweaks colors

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Majicman17
Jun 3, 2005
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I have a simple two color image that I would like to use for the web. The two colors are red #CC0000, and black. When I save it for the web as a .gif, Photoshop changes the red to murky red #C0203A. This happens if I save as a gif or a .jpg. This is a new install of Photoshop CS on a new machine. Is there a setting I missed somewhere that will remedy this? Any advice is appreciated. Thanks!

Seth
smeranda2<at>unl<dot>edu
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Art Campbell
Jun 3, 2005
Don’t use Save For Web — just Save As a .jpg to avoid the automatic "optimization" in the SFW tool.

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Mathias_Vejerslev
Jun 3, 2005
Seth,

Make sure your working space is sRGB when working with web images (edit>Color settings).

In the SFW interface, you can ‘lock’ colors in the CLUT (Color LookUp Table), by selecting them, and hitting the Padlock icon. This only works when saving as a GIF file.

Mathias
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Chris_Cox
Jun 3, 2005
Save For Web only changes colors if you tell it to.
But do remember that GIF is indexed color, and has to reduce the color table to 256 or fewer colors, and JPEG is a lossy format.

Saving as JPEG from Photoshop will make a much larger file than using SaveForWeb because Photoshop will include more metadata.

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