Another Colorspace Questions

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Posted by Brad Beeler on July 21, 2006 at 4:30 PM

I recently made the swtich to OS X, and have CS2 installed. The images look GREAT while editing (Adobe RGB, from Camera), but when I go to "Save For the Web" they become very flat, both the "Original" and "Optimized" views on the "Save For the Web" screen look flat.

It appears as if the colorspaces are not the same, but does anyone know how I can preserve the vividness of the origonal image after saving for the web?

Thanks

Posted by Guy Tal on July 21, 2006 at 4:34 PM

You didn't mention converting to sRGB before going to Save for Web. Could this be the issue?

Guy

Posted by Brad Beeler on July 21, 2006 at 4:56 PM

Guy,

You are correct I did not convert the profile before attempting to save. However I just did that, and the same thing happened... The edit screen is very vibrant, and the "Save For the Web" is very flat. I have also tried using every option under preview colors.

Thanks

Posted by Todd Caudle on July 21, 2006 at 5:05 PM

If you profile your monitor, save it as your current monitor profile and it'll look exactly the same on the Web as it does on your monitor. (althoug, truthfully, converting to sRGB should not have kept the image looking flat like before the conversion)

Posted by Scott Bacon on July 21, 2006 at 5:28 PM

For PS 7 and CS, there's a small, right-pointing arrow near the top of the Save for Web window (just left of the Save button). Click that and check that its set to "Use Document Color Profile". This has bitten me a couple of times...
HTH

Posted by Brad Beeler on July 21, 2006 at 6:21 PM

Here's a little more information...

Original Image - resized and saved as jpeg

Original Issue

After viewing Scotts sugestion, it make the two images look the same here

however the image still comes out flatter than the origional
here

Thanks for the information, its really bothering me, and I've never experienced this on the PC, but now that I have a MAC is hard to go back.

Posted by Guy Tal on July 21, 2006 at 9:43 PM

Another potential issue may be your gamma setting. Is it possible you used a gamma lower than 2.2 when calibrating your monitor?

Guy

Posted by Grant Collier on July 22, 2006 at 2:05 AM

Thanks, Scott, for the advice! I was just going to post a similar question. I never had this problem on my desktop, but was running into this problem on my new laptop. But changing to "Use Document Color Profile" fixed it. In fact, it now appears that I don't even have to convert to sRGB before saving.

Brad, your original.jpg and save_for_web.jpg on your most recent post look pretty very similar to me. If you have an LCD monitor, the images may just be looking different to you based on the position they are on the screen.

Posted by Scott Borger on July 23, 2006 at 1:39 AM

Wise move. OSX is a far superior OS. What mac did you get. I've got a MacBook.

Posted by Brad Beeler on July 24, 2006 at 2:52 PM

I think I've finally got it, it I use the proof colors of "Macintosh LCD" the colors finally look right.

Scott,
I wound up with a 17" MacBook Pro. I spend about 50% of my day on an SSH terminal and the other 50% staring at PHP Code. I would have just converted my PC to a Linux box, but then I can not run photoshop. OS X is the best of both worlds.

Thanks