oversaturation when saving?

[angelo cordon]

anybody ever have this problem?

im trying to save this piece from photoshop to webdevices but on the preview the painting looks over saturated. i tried to take a screenshot of it but the screenshot itself doesnt look like the right colors either.

i blocked it out in painter then when i saved it and opened it in photoshop the colors were different as well. im working with cmyk but i might have started it with lab color then switched to cmyk.

im so lost and cofused!!!

[angelo cordon]

i also just tried to open it on different computers and the colors are really off - now i know and understand that not every monitor will have the same colors, but i never had a problem where the colors are pretty way off. the gray bluish background looks a deep ocean green in other monitors....

[sox]

it looks to me like your problem is that the image is cmyk. i dont know too much about lab, only a few tricks here and there to do with colour correction for photos, but besides that i dont use it.

when working for the web, you should almost always be using an RGB setup as this is how a computer screen puts an image together, using red green and blue combinations. 100 of all being black. and 0 in all being white.
cmyk works a little differently to this and thus when you convert one to the other some colours can change. (because it is calculating additive values differently)
if you want to get a more accurate colour when working, convert your image to rgb (maybe in photoshop if you want to keep any layers, got no idea how painter converts) and your image should change slightly, this will be exactly how it will look on the web. (different screens will display differently however with different settings obviously)

if after you convert to RGB your colour is not what you want, you now need to go in and adjust it to what you want.
CMYK = printing (mostly)
RGB = computer screen (mostly)

[angelo cordon]

thanks for the reply man. i stumbled upon a tutorial today that said that when switching from painter to photoshop, i was suppose to switch the gel layers to multiply. not sure if thats the problem but ill keep that in mind.

[Elwell]

You have Photoshop set up to use a different color space/profile than the rest of your apps. Read up on PS color management.

[angelo cordon]

cool, thanks for the reply!