Remind me please.......colour problems on saving

10/13/2007 05:47:49 PM · #1

It's been ages, since I've post processed a photo, and I've forgotten a simple thing, which I vaguely recall had an easy solution. I almost feel stupid asking this.

Photoshop CS3, from raw, - nice green golfcourse shot. Working in my default Adobe RGB, so that I can print later. Then File - Save As - jpeg, with "ICC Profile: Adobe RGB 1998" checked. Save as a copy, with jpeg options on max quality, and "baseline standard" checked.

But when I open the saved jpeg, it's not a vivid and verdant green, but a dull grey brown.

Why does the saved version show this distinct colour shift? What am I doing wrong? Please help!

figaro

Canon EOS-7D

Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM

10/13/2007 06:09:51 PM · #2

Edit - Convert to profile

Then select sRGB. Convert, then save. :)

10/13/2007 06:57:21 PM · #3

Thanks for the reply, figaro.

I've just tried that.....not much better at all. Still a very dull green in saved jpeg, compared to the *psd, in sRGB, or Adobe RGB. And this on a newly calibrated monitor.

What can be wrong? What am I doing, that's giving me this colour shift on saving?

figaro

Canon EOS-7D

Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM

10/13/2007 07:01:41 PM · #4

Ouch. There was me thinking I'd solved the problem (which I myself only figured out this morning). I hope there's somebody with greater expertise to help you out with this one.

Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro

10/13/2007 08:16:34 PM · #5

Waaaaa, its just not working. All of my saved jpegs are a horrible muted dull washed out version of the *psd in photoshop.
I've just read thru EddyG's tutorial again, on preparing images for DPC challenges, and I can't find the problem.

Somebody? please....

Spork99

OM System OM-1

10/13/2007 08:21:58 PM · #6

What's your default colorspace? On your camera and in PS?

If you want to print and need Adobe RGB for that, you may be better off converting from sRGB to Adobe when that time somes.

oOWonderBreadOo

Canon EOS-5D

Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L USM

10/13/2007 08:25:50 PM · #7

view (proof colors I think?) as monitor RGB.

That way you'll see the colors you'll get when you save for web :0)

DrAchoo

Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX5

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

10/13/2007 08:28:06 PM · #8

Wonderbread has the correct answer. I always check proof colors (Monitor RGB) before starting on a picture. Being a lover of green, it's always a huge disappointment when I click that button. Greens particularly suffer on the changeover. You can somewhat recover the greens by doing a hue/sat layer with a master hue shift of +5 to +15. It does not work on every picture though.

Message edited by author 2007-10-13 20:28:16.

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

10/13/2007 08:40:39 PM · #9

Hmmm. Thanks so much, as always, Wonderbread, Jason, et al.

Yes, when I look at my vivid colours on 'Proof colours-Monitor RGB', its the same muted desaturated picture I have after saving the jpeg.

Does that mean that I should begin and end the whole post-processing sequence with this proof colours/monitor rgb checked all the time, to avoid the disappointing desat when I save?

DrAchoo

Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX5

10/13/2007 09:00:19 PM · #10

Originally posted by Sinky:

Yes, but also you can push the saturations and colors further because you are starting muted. If you unclick the "proof colors" button you might see a terribly oversaturated ugly shot. In other words, if you are going for a DPC edit, you need to start with the proof colors on so you know where you will wind up.