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Hello, I’m trying hard to understand color management and to make colors consistent throughout my workflow, and I’m failing miserably despite reading and re-reading the help files. I’d REALLY appreciate some help with my specific problems, which I’m going to detail here.
WHAT I DO
I make pictures for use on the Web. I do both this by photoshopping existing photos, and by digitally drawing and painting in photoshop.
HOW MY SYSTEM IS SET UP
1) I have my monitor set to sRGB, and I’ve calibrated the colors using the Viewsonic calibration app that came with the monitor. The resulting colors look good, to my eyes at least.
2) I’ve set up Photoshop to use sRGB as the RGB colorspace, and to convert RGB images to the working colorspace
3) I’ve set up Photoshop’s Save For Web to embed the color profile, to Convert so sRGB, and Preview is set to Use Document Profile
THE PROBLEM I’M HAVING
The preview I see in the Save For Web preview screen exactly matches the source document. However, after saving for web, the color of the jpg or gif is significantly different to that of the original document.
If I change the preview mode to Monitor Color, it does show an accurate representation of the jpg of gif that will be saved, but of course that is drastically different to the source document.
WHAT I NEED
1) I need the output to match the source document
2) I need to understand what’s going wrong so that I can gain some insight into this process. I’m finding it very confusing
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Mark
WHAT I DO
I make pictures for use on the Web. I do both this by photoshopping existing photos, and by digitally drawing and painting in photoshop.
HOW MY SYSTEM IS SET UP
1) I have my monitor set to sRGB, and I’ve calibrated the colors using the Viewsonic calibration app that came with the monitor. The resulting colors look good, to my eyes at least.
2) I’ve set up Photoshop to use sRGB as the RGB colorspace, and to convert RGB images to the working colorspace
3) I’ve set up Photoshop’s Save For Web to embed the color profile, to Convert so sRGB, and Preview is set to Use Document Profile
THE PROBLEM I’M HAVING
The preview I see in the Save For Web preview screen exactly matches the source document. However, after saving for web, the color of the jpg or gif is significantly different to that of the original document.
If I change the preview mode to Monitor Color, it does show an accurate representation of the jpg of gif that will be saved, but of course that is drastically different to the source document.
WHAT I NEED
1) I need the output to match the source document
2) I need to understand what’s going wrong so that I can gain some insight into this process. I’m finding it very confusing
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Mark
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