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[SOLVED] photoshop color question

Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2005 5:20 pm
by rehfeld
i use photoshop 7 and have always had this odd problem.

when im working in photoshop, the colors of everything look darker/ more saturated than they should be.

like for example, i create an image, and then save it view it with ANY other image viewer/browser and the colors all look significantly lighter than they did in photoshop. same goes for if i load an existing image into photoshop, the image looks darkers than it really is.

if i go to "save for web" where photoshop shows a new window w/ the image preview, the colors look the same as if i had saved it and viewed it in a diff image viewer.


i tried to take screenshots of this... but oddly, the screenshots come out looking identical.

its very time consuming to have to keep doing a save for web preview just to see what my colors really look like. does anyone have any idea what could be causing this? i havent changed any of the default settings.

Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2005 5:37 pm
by feyd
it has to do with the gamma correction settings.

Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2005 7:04 pm
by rehfeld
yup, that did the trick :)

i switched it to another rbg profile(it listed one for my monitor). its not perfect, but its very close now. guess ill have to make my own profile if i want it exact.

thanks.