PS7 contrast question

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edwardmars
Jun 8, 2004
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I’ve been using PS7 for months with no problems.
I mostly edit photos for web use.

Suddenly, when I select File–>Save For Web
the image’s constrast is greatly increased
when viewed in the Save for Web preview and
in the saved file.

But, when I go back to the original, the constrast
is back to normal.

The result is that images’ contrast is increased
from what I want when saved this way. It wasn’t
doing this before.

Does anyone know how this is happening?

Thanks,
Ed
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tacitr
Jun 8, 2004
Suddenly, when I select File–>Save For Web
the image’s constrast is greatly increased
when viewed in the Save for Web preview and
in the saved file.

When you look at a picture using Save for Web, Save for Web shows you how the picture will look in a program that does not do color management.

When you look at a picture in Photoshop, you are seeing it with Photoshop’s color management. If the image you see in Photoshop is flat compared to the image using Save for Web, then your color management settings in Photoshop are incorrect.

If you work primarily for Web, you might want to turn off Photoshop’s color management. Use View->Proof Setup->Monitor RGB to see your images as they will appear in a Web browser or some other program with no color management.

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Hecate
Jun 9, 2004
On 08 Jun 2004 20:58:32 GMT, (Tacit) wrote:

If you work primarily for Web, you might want to turn off Photoshop’s color management. Use View->Proof Setup->Monitor RGB to see your images as they will appear in a Web browser or some other program with no color management.

…or set your working space to sRGb which is what a lot of modern monitors use as a base.

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edwardmars
Jun 9, 2004
Thank you. Your suggestion works. By selecting Monitor RGB the image now looks the same in PS as it does in Save for Web.

I didn’t have to do that before. I just recently updated the drivers for my monitor. Maybe that is the reason for this new behavior.

New, unedited images now appear more contrasty than before though they are from the same camera and shot the same way.

I have to select Monitor RGB with each new image. Is there a way to set it so that the Monitor RGB setting applies to all new images as the default?

Thanks,
Ed

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(Tacit) wrote in message news:…
Suddenly, when I select File–>Save For Web
the image’s constrast is greatly increased
when viewed in the Save for Web preview and
in the saved file.

When you look at a picture using Save for Web, Save for Web shows you how the picture will look in a program that does not do color management.
When you look at a picture in Photoshop, you are seeing it with Photoshop’s color management. If the image you see in Photoshop is flat compared to the image using Save for Web, then your color management settings in Photoshop are incorrect.

If you work primarily for Web, you might want to turn off Photoshop’s color management. Use View->Proof Setup->Monitor RGB to see your images as they will appear in a Web browser or some other program with no color management.
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tacitr
Jun 9, 2004
I have to select Monitor RGB with each new image. Is there a way to set it so that the Monitor RGB setting applies to all new images as the default?

If you want no color management by default, you can turn off color management policies in the Preferences command.

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edwardmars
Jun 11, 2004
Thanks. I changed the color settings to Web Graphics Defaults and it seems okay now.

Ed

(Tacit) wrote in message news:…
I have to select Monitor RGB with each new image. Is there a way to set it so that the Monitor RGB setting applies to all new images as the default?

If you want no color management by default, you can turn off color management policies in the Preferences command.

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