photo images are not having modifications applied to them

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spencermjax
Jun 1, 2007
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I almost always use ImageReady so I may be unfamiliar with something I’m doing in Photoshop.

I have recently touched some photographs in Photoshop. Much of what I did was to simply paint a white color over some of the "off-white" portions of the images. I then saved them as JPG files and used them on a website. When viewing on the web, much, if not all, of the modifications I made seem to have not taken place. You can see areas where I erased and some other stuff. Simply put, they look horrible.

When working with the files on my computer, I cannot see those problems in the finished JPG file(s). Nor can I see the problems on the web. When I look at them on another computer or other people look at them on the web, they also see the problems mentioned above.

Any ideas as to why I cannot see what the file "actually" looks like? And also why the modifications are not being applied to the image.

The orginal photos are in JPG format. I save them at the highest quality possible using sometimes 5 and sometimes 12 scans. I also beloeve they have the progressive setting turned on.

Here are just two examples:

< http://www.feelgoodframesstore.com/store/product_info.php?cP ath=45_70&products_id=267>

< http://www.feelgoodframesstore.com/store/product_info.php?cP ath=45_53&products_id=213>

Any thought would be greatly apprecieated.

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Bernie
Jun 1, 2007
Sounds like a colour management problem. What are your colour settings?
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spencermjax
Jun 1, 2007
I have uploaded an image of what I think you are asking for. Take a look:

<http://www.feelgoodframesstore.com/photoshop.jpg>
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LenHewitt
Jun 2, 2007
I suspect your monitor brightness is too high and blowing out the highlights so you are seeing the off-white as white. When did you last profile your monitor?
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spencermjax
Jun 2, 2007
I have adjusted the heck out of both the brightness and the contrast with no luck. When I look on another computer I am still see ing the image differently.
I am now reading some info on ICC profiles. is this something that I need to change? In the control panel there is an icon labeled Adobe Gamma. I believe I may have tinkered with that a long time ago. could that be the issue?
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LenHewitt
Jun 2, 2007
could that be the issue?<<

Certainly – if you monitor profile is not correct then what you see on screen isn’t going to be correct. But if you have an LCD monitor, then Adobe Gamma is not really the calibration tool to use to profile it – it may help a little but is unlikely to be accurate.
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spencermjax
Jun 2, 2007
Yes, I do have an LCD. I am at a complete loss as to what to do. When I print the web page with one of the images I am speaking about I can see the "actual" image colors. But on the screen…it looks great. I am about to go crazy. Would you happen to have any other suggestions?
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chrisjbirchall
Jun 2, 2007
Would you happen to have any other suggestions?

Why would you want any "other suggestions"?

Len has given you the correct advice. Your monitor needs profiling so that Photoshop can communicate correctly with it. Adobe Gamma mya get it in the right ball park, but for an LCD you really do need to look to a third party software/hardware profiling solution.
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spencermjax
Jun 2, 2007
well, as previously mentioned, I do not have any experience with this issue so "other suggestions" would help. Len suggested a software/hardware profiling solution. Well which is it…a hardware or a software solution? Is it both? do these solutions work together or seperately? Is one solution better than the other? What is the solution, a piece of software hard ware or both. where do I get it or them? Those are some of the questions that are wrapped up in the phrase "other suggestions".
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Michael_D_Sullivan
Jun 3, 2007
If you want color consistency, you should get a colorimeter (hardware), which comes with the software that you use to calibrate your monitor. I use a Monaco Optix XR, which came with Monaco EZColor 2.6. There are many others available.
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spencermjax
Jun 3, 2007
Thank you michael. I just purchased spider2 express. I’ll see how that works.

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