If you are talking about "web safe" colors they are so out of date that is not even funny.īy looking at her screen shoots, Photoshop proof is not enabled. I wonder if the problem OP has is in: soft proofing activated by accident as I wrote earlier.īTW. But it doesn't seem to be the case here.Įither way there are plenty of standard procedure methods and some are posted by other users that should take care of any obvious problems. Unless you are preparing for a very small print color space, than for obvious reasons you will see shift in color. And rendering intent, process of compressing the color range of one color profile into another - often times dose a good job to preserve the appearance as much as possible. You may have an image that was already worked on in sRGB, you may have colors in the image that don't go beyond the gamut of sRGB, you may have a B&W image and the gamut of the profile doesn't matter anymore. If you talk about sRGB as the standard for web than that could be a problem but usually it's not. JPEG's can't support more than 8 bit's per channel but that is more than enough to display all the colors you need, the other factor is the color profile you embed in your image. Possible colors are determine by bit depth and maximum reproducible gamut or range of colors is determine by the color profile of the image and the ultimately the limitations of the display device, as well as the nature of the image. I don't think you understand what is going on. Thats why images are going to look differently. Or, put another way, if you're saving it as a JPEG, you're not going to get 'web safe' colors it doesn't work that way.Īre you kidding me? Less possible colors means oftentimes the more vibrant colors are going to be replaced with a web safe standard or whatever closest color is in the color profile you're using in your jpegs. If you're saving a photo with 'web safe' colors, you're not saving it as a JPEG. PSD naturally supports a higher dynamic range, and if you're saving with web safe colors that takes a LOT of the possible colors off the table. You can't control what the 'uncalibrated masses' see, but you can give them something which is least likely to be off overall. If your display isn't in the center-where it would be if calibrated-more people will see it "more" incorrectly. Where it falls, calibrated, is in a MUCH smaller bell curve, rarely very far from the center. Where it falls, uncalibrated, is somewhere in a VERY large bell curve most kinda-sort in the center, and the rest ranging from close to not at all close. So creating a file that you know won't show up correctly to most users, doesn't make sense to me. If it's going on the web, most everyone does not have a calibrated monitor. It irks me when someone sends a file, then qualifies it's color, based on whether or not you have a calibrated monitor. When I say the "uncalibrated masses" I mean the average end viewer. I said it in the most non-technical way possible. I totally believe that I probably did say it wrong.
Windows Picture Viewer should be color managed but not in slideshow mode. When you say "the uncalibrated masses" do you mean web users?īTW. That being said I think I know what you mean, but it you said it wrong.
Photoshop works with so called working profiles (sRGB, Adobe RGB 1998 etc.), and non color managed applications do not. Photoshop being color managed application as far as I know canot deactivate it's color management. There is no such thing as photoshop calibration only monitor calibration which creates monitor profile and is read by the OS in any color managed application along with the embedded color profile within the image. I'm cheap, and not that picky, and just want to see images the way the uncalibrated masses will see it. I'm sure there are other options, but that's what I chose to do. What is the answer? I chose to turn of photoshop calibration, so I could see what the average end viewer sees. As soon as you load it anywhere else, including Windows Picture Viewer, your color it no longer being controlled by photoshop. But when you view something in Photoshop, the color is being controlled by the photoshop calibration. There's a setting to calibrate your monitor in Photoshop (I have no idea if this is regular monitor calibration, or a separate photoshop thing). Practical guidelines and references for digital photographersĮverything you thought you wanted to know about Color Gamut and RGB Working Spaces Internet browsers are also not much good … files.html
You need a proper software to view the images, in windows XP the Windows explorer is not color managed, in Windows 7 it is +-, but it does not work well with V4 monitor profiles and/or LUT ones, use V2 matrix based. When saving the image, make sure it is saving the profile too.