different quality from CS2 to Irfan View (iview)

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doug_raflik
Jun 25, 2007
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I edit my pictures in CS2 on a pc with XP. They look fine on my screen after edited. If I want to show a bunch of pictures to someone, I will open them in iview because it is easier to flip through them quicker, but I noticed the colors are MUCH less vibrant. How can this be? I havent changed anything. I am just opening up a file in a different program, but on the same monitor. Does CS2 have something that saturates the colors more, or is iview just dulling them? I havent made prints to compare yet. Wondering if anyone else has noticed this.

Thank You,
Doug
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Rob_Keijzer
Jun 25, 2007
Dough,

Irfanview is not colour managed.

Make sure you do this:

1. calibrate and profile your monitor.
2. Convert your images to sRGB before showing them on the web, or through a non colour managed application like Irfanview.

BTW, this is NOT to say that Irfanview is a bad program. On the contrary. Just like Ray-Ban isn’t a bad sun glass when the world looks a bit green through them.

Rob
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doug_raflik
Jun 25, 2007
So CS2 is the correct (real) color? I do not see an sRGB. Just RGB under Image -> Mode…

Doug
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chrisjbirchall
Jun 26, 2007
So CS2 is the correct (real) color?

only once you’ve colour calibrated.

Just RGB under Image -> Mode

You need to set your working space to sRGB ( Edit>Colour Settings ) or Edit>Convert to Profile before saving each image destined for iView or the web.

Methinks fifteen minutes at <http://www.computer-darkroom.com> would be fifteen minutes well spent.

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