problem with photoshop opening my docs in a different color.

[marco nelor]

grrrrr im having a problem. for some reason in photoshop, when i work on a pic, it looks VERY bright, but when i save it, and open it from anywhere else, its dark. WHY is that!!
every time i ask, people have no idea what im talkin about, so here, ill post both for now, so that u guys can see what im talkin bout, and hopefully help me out.
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3723/2144/1600/vversion2psd%20copy.jpg
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3723/2144/1600/visaraproblem.jpg

[glikster]

the problem is that your color profile is not set up in PS correctly...

[marco nelor]

how do i do that? and is there a way to actually get the picture to look like it does in PS? cuz i HATE the after image, the black and white. the sepia im getting in the photoshop is much more inviting.

[glikster]

I don't have PS on my work computer, but under preferences there is a way to set up the colorspace... there are a few threads about it if you want to search... How are you saving the image... it should keep the same basic colors and not go to b/w, unless you're saving in greyscale or something....

[marco nelor]

well ill ask ya this then. is there a way to save it in the brownish version that im getting in photoshop? far as i can tell, im not saving it as a grayscale.

[romance]

Marco, try this:

In PS, go to EDIT - Color Settings. The switch r=the settings to North America General Purpose 2. If it's already at that, then try some of the other settings until the color matches when it's opened in other programs, it may take some time get it spot on.

[CaneHoyer]

This is one of the most often user problems here in this forum!

Nost people here dont' have any clue of how color profiles work.

Click here through the forum, or watch out for tutorials for color setup and icc profiles!

[fish~]

You can always do a hue/saturation adjustment to bring back your brown.
use the colorise botton and adjust till you get desired color

[White Mouse]

This maybe a bit to the left of topic, but also use the Adobe Gamma to set your monitor up to display the image/color correctly. This offen times results in the color or light/darkness difference on other systems... (ie; when you open a pic you did on your system on your clients). If this doesn't help try what CaneHoyer suggested... good luck.

[cyberphobia]

okay, here is the thing:

first install your monitor. [like you install a graphics card..] then, you must have your monitor icc profile. [download via internet] ..then run adobe gamma, don't use wizard but a manual setting. load in your monitor profile. then run photoshop and go edit > color settings [in previous versions it could be file > color...] there in RGB working space load your monitor profile. save and restart. you're done ^^

note, gamma setting value depends on your monitor icc, not on operating system.

[CaneHoyer]

Sorry Cyber, but the last thing is not correct!

You are right, he should setup his Monitor, by using the right drivers.
Also setup the color rendering on hie monitor using for example Adobe Gamma, there are better color management software, but for non-industrial use Gamma is okay.

The working space in PS has nothing to do with the monitor color space.
The monitor just interpretes color values you set it up to a color temperature that you decided to be your standard, alike a stnadarized lamp that shows a printing under daylight conditions (for example at 6000°)

The working space in PS sets up, how PS reproduces colors, converts colors from different color spaces.
So therefore someone should use standarized color profiles, for example the ones included in PS.

Adobe 1998 is not bad, but for later converting and reproducing in CMYK spaces it is too colorfull, you won't get this rendered in CMYK.

But all of this is a science itself, using icc profiles is hard to understand.

What the problem in his case seems to be is, that when he opens an image on another computer it looks different.

The problem is, that the other monitors don't have the same color management, the don't use the same profile and so the pics look different.
Also important is, that the application uses the same profile.

For example save a pic in RGB 1996, include the profile.
When opening the pic on another computer, PS should use the same RGB workspace.
You can also preset PS to inform you, if an included color profile differs to the setup workspace.

For example if you save a pic in RGB 1996 (color profile included) and open it on another computer, where PS uses the RGB 1998 workspace, PS will give you a message (if it's presetted) that the included profile differs to your workspace.
Now you can convert (don't do this, the color values will be recalculated), or open it without conversion (your image keeps it's color values but is shown, how the other workspace construes these values -> you image will look different!)

I wrote this now several times here:

If working in a studio and you would like to setup all monitors to give the same results you need to calibrate them with a special software, for ex. BasiColor, and the appropriated hardware.
This software will setup the monitor profile (like Gamma does)

To let the monitors now render the images looking all the same PS needs to use the same colorspace.
This is not only for RGB, also for CMYK.

Man, this is hard to explain in a foreign language but I hope it's understandable! :)

For additional infos go to:

www.eci.org