Photoshop Color

[DreamThrall]

Colors in Photoshop are always darker than they actually come out when I save a JPG or GIF. Also, if I open a jpg or gif, Photoshop displays the colors darker than they are displayed everywhere else. Any idea how to fix this?

 

[CptStern]

Colors in Photoshop are always darker than they actually come out when I save a JPG or GIF. Also, if I open a jpg or gif, Photoshop displays the colors darker than they are displayed everywhere else. Any idea how to fix this?

what are we talking here? printed material? jpg, gif are compressed image formats ..colour information is always lost ..the only way to truely colour match is to use standardized colour swatches like Pantone and use a non compressed file format like tiff (jpg is good enough for most purposes though)..even then you'd need to calibrate your monitor with a calibration tool like Spyder2 ..if you're talking about jpg and gifs looking different in various browsers, well that's because browsers only display 256 colours ..it dithers all other colours; they ignore colour profiles

 

[DreamThrall]

Well I just noticed that it gets colorized too. Things that are usually displayed as gray turn brown, and it looks like everything gets tinted brown when I put it in photoshop. For example, if I take a screenshot of white and put it in photoshop, it gets brown tint put on it.

Here: I took a screen shot of a screen shot of my desktop in photoshop:

I made it small, but you can definitely still see the difference:
-Photoshop workspace color
-Color of the HL2 forum colors

I don't care about printing anything, but when I'm picking colors to use on websites, I want to be sure that it'll look the same once I save it.

 

[Remus]

I know exactly what you're talking about. I don't use Photoshop, but in Corel Photo-Paint I used to have the same problem. The thing is there should be a control pannel where you can set the color profiles. i don't know how it is in Photoshop but here the program has separate color profiles for: inside the program, windows and printing.
So the trick is to put the same color profile on both inside the program and windows.
I use the KODAK - Digital Camera profile for both and the images look inside the program exactly the same as they do in windows.

 

[StardogChampion]

Go to Edit then Color Management or something. Make sure it's set to OFF in the drop-down menu. 9 times out of 10 that fixes it.

This gives me problems sometimes aswell.

 

[DreamThrall]

Fixed it, through some combination of changes that I don't remember... thanks for the help guys

 

[CyberPitz]

I know paint did that shit to me for the longest time. I had to go into photoshop and change a shitload of settings, I, too, don't remember.