Colour/brightness different in photoshop from when opened in other graphics viewers

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phil.kershaw
Apr 26, 2007
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Hi

I find that when I work on an image, and get the colours and particularly the brightness right in photoshop, I then save the image, and when I open it in any other Windows app (picture viewer for example), the colours and brightness are very, very different to how it looked in photoshop. I’ve not changed any defaults (other than setting up a few macros which shouldn’t make any difference). Does anyone know either what is causing this, or a way to alter the brightness in photoshop so that it resembles how the final image will look in Windows apps?

Sorry if this has been posted before, but it’s not an easy subject to do search on as the words are very generic.

Cheers

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Jim
Apr 26, 2007
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Hi

I find that when I work on an image, and get the colours and particularly the brightness right in photoshop, I then save the image, and when I open it in any other Windows app (picture viewer for example), the colours and brightness are very, very different to how it looked in photoshop. I’ve not changed any defaults (other than setting up a few macros which shouldn’t make any difference). Does anyone know either what is causing this, or a way to alter the brightness in photoshop so that it resembles how the final image will look in Windows apps?

Sorry if this has been posted before, but it’s not an easy subject to do search on as the words are very generic.

Cheers
The problem is the result of other applications not being color managed whereas PS is. You could save your images as sRGB because that is the lowest common denominator for color matching.

Jim
TK
Toobi-Won Kenobi
Apr 26, 2007
wrote in message
Hi

I find that when I work on an image, and get the colours and particularly the brightness right in photoshop, I then save the image, and when I open it in any other Windows app (picture viewer for example), the colours and brightness are very, very different to how it looked in photoshop. I’ve not changed any defaults (other than setting up a few macros which shouldn’t make any difference). Does anyone know either what is causing this, or a way to alter the brightness in photoshop so that it resembles how the final image will look in Windows apps?

Sorry if this has been posted before, but it’s not an easy subject to do search on as the words are very generic.

Cheers
Phil,

As Jim said, Photoshop is a colour managed program, the others are not. You need to
calibrate your monitor for starters,
see http://www.computer-darkroom.com/ps9_colour/ps9_1.htm

TWK

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