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Help required. B&W save for web issue.

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Posted by Tom_W on August 25, 2008 at 5:18 PM

I cannot get the Black and White jpeg output on the web to look like the image on my screen. The web image becomes to dark and blocked.

I use CS3.
Posted by Nick on August 25, 2008 at 5:48 PM
:confused: - Convert to B&W, then switch it back to sRGB/aRGB before you save it. It should match your monitor then....
Posted by Barrie Harwood on August 26, 2008 at 4:12 AM
Don't forget that the CS3 'Save to Web' facility has a tick box to automatically convert to sRGB on saving
Posted by Ben Micklem on August 26, 2008 at 6:57 AM
It may be due to having your default 'gray' profile as dot gain 20%- this is design for press use, and is the default in recent versions. sRGB uses a gamma of 2.2 (and Windows/IE will use gamma 2.2 for everything, unless they have recently added support for profiles), so try changing your default gray profile to gamma 2.2.
Posted by Barrie Harwood on August 27, 2008 at 1:10 PM
Well Tom.. what's the outcome?