Color is getting changed when saved?

[Sarah23]

Something happened that is making the color not save correctly when I am done with it in photoshop. It looks fine when I go to save it, but when I then open it up in windows picture viewer, a lot of the vibrance is gone and its kinda dull/gray.

Why is it doing this? I saw a post about someone else having this problem a few weeks ago, but I cannot find it now. I dont know if its something in photoshop, or something in windows picture viewer.

 

[Sarah23]

ok...I think it was the color space. It was set on RGB instead of sRGB.

 

[ANDS!]

Yup thatll do it.

 

[maytay20]

It could be that or your computer the color is fine when I print, view it in DPP or Photoshop. But when I view it in windows It has a really bad color cast. Something is up with windows color in my computer. But since a rarely look at them with windows because of this it really doesnt effect me.

 

[dslrchat]

It also depends on what file size/type you are editing in and what you are saving it as.

 

[Sarah23]

Well, it looked gray in photobucket and flickr too...so I dont know. i will get some printed now and see if it is ok.

The images were raw, converted to jpeg, saved, and reopened (all in CS3) then resaved and then I noticed the color difference when viewing it in windows. I changed to sRGB and they are now the same. We will see when I get some prints, I guess!

 

[Garbz]

Yep colour management. They would look fine on photobucket and flickr too if you had a colour managed browser.

But good to see you noticed it early. Always convert any files you intend to publish on the web to sRGB first.