I’m a little frusterated at the moment with PhotoShop (even though it’s prolly my fault), because I can’t get PS to save the image with the correct colors scheme EVEN though I’m using web-safe colors!
So I tried messing with the Color Modes, but no luck there. Any and all input will be appreciated.
When saving to a compressed format, you wave goodbye to absolutes.
A lossy JPEG is a nope for color control. GIF only saves a limited number of colors, but at least you can lock ´em.
Use the Eye Dropper in SFW preview, click the colors in the image you want to preserve as is, look at the CLUT (Color Table) and click the Padlock icon for each color that must not shift. Once you lock ‘ em they wont change.
While you are at it, turn off Dither, transparency,
This info assumes you are in sRGB mode from the start as Len pointed to.
I have added another screenshot for you to be able to see my save settings and also notice the color differences. Also, I made sure I use using the sRGB color mode.
When your in Save For Web look for the little circle with the arrow in it on the top right of the preview window. Click this and then play around with the four options in the third set in that menu. I choose uncompensated for my work.
I was also using uncompensated, but I tried saving the image in the others and the two images preview panel (orig/altered) now show up in the same color shades, but when I save it and open it up in a browser, they color looks different again.
If you don´t understand what I´m writing, please advise:
"Use the Eye Dropper in SFW preview, click the colors in the image you want to preserve as is, look at the CLUT (Color Table) and click the Padlock icon for each color that must not shift. Once you lock ‘ em they wont change."
That´s the eye dropper in Save For Web, and thats the Color Table in Save For Web, and that´s the Padlock icon under the color table in Save For Web.
Once you lock a color, there´s a little dot in the color in the lower right corner, assuring you that this color is not shifted in the optimization process.
I was also using uncompensated, but I tried saving the image in the others and the two images preview panel (orig/altered) now show up in the same color shades, but when I save it and open it up in a browser, they color looks different again.
From that description, it sounds very much like you are not using sRGB as your working space. Check Edit>Color Settings, make SURE sRGB is your working space.
The screenshots Cid has uploaded are in GIF format. I’m sort of wondering how the left-hand image wound up with the "correct" blue shade, and what Cid used to produce these GIF images. It can’t have been SFW, presumably, else the left-hand blue image would have been shifted to purple, right?
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