Save for Web
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- jevad
Anybody else, (and I'm working on Mac OSX), when they are saving out of photoshop for the web, notice that photoshop lightens any colours yoou may have in the file? It's really starting to piss me off...
- nebbab0
i also notice that photoshop changes the color profile to more earthy tones for pictures.... on OSX
- nebbab0
One more thing... the color in firefox is different than safari. any comments on that....
- harlequino0
I've noticed that too. I've been trying to anticipate it and compensate with a little extra contrast or saturation.
- jevad0
yeah but wtf?
- harlequino0
Can that be something with eliminating color count for the web, for smaller file size?
- ********0
Its because your color managment is on.
Go to: EDIT>COLOR SETTINGS
Select More options on the right.
Then select the SETTINGS drop down. In that there will be a Color managment Off setting. select that.
Fixed.
- jevad0
what can I say - you fucking rule
cheers
- harlequino0
same be illin'
- planet010
not sure that I would turn the color management off. it's there for a reason. Select "North America - Web/Internet" - or just select "sRGB IEC61966-2.1" for your RGB working space.
Rather, when you are saving a .jpg are you embedding a color profile (it's a check box on the 'save for web' box). This will ensure that your colors look right- not just on your machine but on both mac and windows platforms.
See this site - this guy knows what he is talking about...
- ********0
All i know is when working for web, and not print, Color Managment messes everything up.
I want it to look like my monitor settings, and I set my monitor to something that is universal that most people will see.
- planet010
Your solution is what I used to do, but it's going to leave someone out of the loop. Color profiles will mess things up, unless you understand what the settings do.
- mikecuesta0
I'm actually having another problem.. When I import a .PNG into flash, It comes out washed out... the blacks aren't as black as they should be, I open the .PNGs in Photoshop, and they seem to open fine... anyone know how to fix this?
- mikecuesta0
Anyone know about this?
- sklassen0
that's an old issue...
increase the saturation 10-20% before you export the pngs into flash. its not perfect still usually, but that seems to help.
- horton0
turning OFF color management is extremely risky business. you should make it practice to attach a color profile to all your PS files. they keep colors consistent computer to computer.
i've read US Prepress defaults is the best for print or web.. you want all those 'missing profile' warnings.
then select the color space that suits you under View/ Proof Setup and keep Proof Colors checked (cmnd-Y).
- skelly0
re: the "save for web" problem
my solution is to click the triangle to the top right of the preview box. make sure "browser dither" is OFF and "use document color profile" is checked. that fixed it for me, i had the same problem.
re: the PNG to FLASH problem
i think just saving as a PNG instead of save for web PNG makes it not so bad, but i forget.
- gramme0
All I did whilst prepping images for my site was bump the saturation, make it a hair darker, then in the 'save for web' preview mode it looks gewd.
I'm not even a web dev, but it worked swimmingly for me :)