Colors changing after save for web, please help

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Snejanka
Jul 18, 2006
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Hello to all
I never thought I would have a problem with photoshop, but unfortunatelly here it is )) I’m using it for 6 years already.

I face this problem for a first time and I read in google but didn’t find a solution, only this which didn’t help to solve the problem.
< http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web/Graphics/Photoshop/Q_218 08527.html>

So the problem is that I made a file and I need to save it for web. But photoshop changes the colors of the original file and gives me completely different colors when I use save for web,
I tried to switch through all the color profiles which are suitable for web, also to change the proof setup, but no result so far.

here is a screenshot of my problem
the left picture is the original file – I want it to be in violet, but after save for web it is more blue than violet (see the right picture which is save for web window)

<http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/3914/tsviatum5.jpg>

Thank you very very much in advance for any solution of this problem.
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Ronald_Hirsch
Jul 18, 2006
Photoshop offers the choice to "use only web color" in the color picker in CS2. I don’t recall how far back that option went, and I don’t know what version you are using.

I would assume that this would help resolve your problem.

Have you tried Photoshop HELP, and done a search for "web colors"?

Ron Hirsch
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george_dingwall
Jul 18, 2006
Hi Snejanka,

Try converting the original image to sRGB before using Save For Web.

Hope this helps.
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Snejanka
Jul 18, 2006
I use CS2
I found some solution…
proof setup is different for monitor and windows and also save for web up menu has to be on uncompressed colors.
It is strange that the default setings were wrong.
So the whole file 5 days work went wrong because I was creating it with this settings: view – proof setup – windows rgb and save for web god knows what….
so changing the settings in the save for web dialog only effects the preview, but changing the settings in proof setup on monitor rgb and then save the file with uncompressed colors adn uplouding it, it gives the right color…
thank you for your reply

so the correct as I see has to be proof setup – monitor rgb and save for web – uncompressed colors. so this way you get in web what you see on your monitor.
CN
Cybernetic Nomad
Jul 18, 2006
so this way you get in web what you see on your monitor.

actually, this way you get the same colours in your web browser and PS on your monitor. What you get on another monitor may be comp[letely different…
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Snejanka
Jul 18, 2006
so what then should be the correct settings?
I didn’t have this problem in the previous versions of photoshop because with this settings I put I corrected the file a little bit and now everything is ok, I would ask some friends to take it and to send me a screnshot maybe

I’m so confused now :)))))
CN
Cybernetic Nomad
Jul 18, 2006
All I’m saying is that your image will appear differently on different monitors.

The solution to minimize colour shifts is to convert your image to sRGB before saving for web
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Phosphor
Jul 19, 2006
Bad advice, Ron.

All that pertains to is keeping the Adobe Color picker divided into so-called websafe colors, as divided into regions of standard hex values <http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/reference/color_codes>.

For something like what Snejanka created, with more continuous tonal variations, he’d be wanting to use JPEG or PNG.

Snejanka’s problem is definitely one of color profile conversion.
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John Joslin
Jul 19, 2006
In fact that whole "Web Safe" business is an obsolete relic of earlier times.
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Snejanka
Jul 19, 2006
thank you guys, the image’s profile is sRGB from the very begining. the problem occured after it was created although it is sRGB and when I saved it for web…
CN
Cybernetic Nomad
Jul 19, 2006
the problem occured after it was created although it is sRGB and when I saved it for web…

Then that means your monitor is farther away from sRGB than the average monitor. Is it calibrated? To what gamma? (should be 2.2)

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