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01/30/2007 09:15:12 PM · #1 |
| A couple months back, I had my hard drive crash. Luckily a day or two earlier I backed up 105 gigs of photos. My problem is on the new computer, images look great when opened & edited in Raw Shooter Essentials and Photoshop, but when saved, they look a bit grungy. They almost look like the were dragonized with higher contrast and colors altered. In Photoshop, in the save for web preview, they look bad too. They print that way too. If I reopen the image in the editing programs, they look great again. Anyone have any ideas how to fix? I'm baffled. |
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01/30/2007 09:21:45 PM · #2 |
| You've got a color management issue. The color space assigned to the files is not sRGB, and you're not specifically converting to the sRGB profile before you save. Alternately, the files *are* in sRGB, but you have "Proof Colors" turned on and are editing while proofing in another color space. |
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01/30/2007 09:35:53 PM · #3 |
| Thanks Fritz. Is there a way to change those settings in Windows? The settings seem right in Photoshop. |
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01/30/2007 11:07:21 PM · #4 |
Check to see what your monitor profile is set to. Make sure it's sRGB. Make sure the monitor is calibrated of course. Then if the photos appear correctly in PS, but not in, for instance, a browser window, there's something amiss in PS. A browser, or other non-color-managed application always assumes sRGB. When the actual color space is something else, the photo will not look right.
Another way to confirm this is, after editing, convert to sRGB. Then Save for Web. Now they *should* look the same. |
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01/30/2007 11:18:57 PM · #5 |
I was having this same problem. The proof setting was set to CMYK. Could some of this stem from having the camera set to Adobe RGB for Color Space instead of sRGB? What's the difference really and which one is best to use?
Scott |
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01/31/2007 09:01:20 AM · #6 |
| Bump for the daytime people. Ant thoughts? |
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01/31/2007 09:16:19 AM · #7 |
Originally posted by scott180:
I was having this same problem. The proof setting was set to CMYK. Could some of this stem from having the camera set to Adobe RGB for Color Space instead of sRGB? What's the difference really and which one is best to use? |
The proof color space should be set to the color space you intend to output to. For example for the web you would want sRGB and for printing you would want one of the appropriate ICC profile for the printer.
In a managed workflow it doesn't matter what your camera is set to per se in that you'll convert to the appropriate output space.
Adobe RGB is wider than sRGB (contains more colors) which often means it's a better space to start with. More colors gives you more options when you want to make edits. However, if you produce images for the web that require little editing, sRGB could be a fine choice.
Message edited by author 2007-01-31 09:17:29. |
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