Editing Problems - Venice, Italy

[AUZambo]

I just finished touching up my pictures from Italy. When I was browsing through the finished photos and comparing them to the originals, I noticed that all of the edited ones seemed to have richer red tones.

I went back into photoshop elements and opened up one of the original JPGs, made no changes and saved as another file. When I opened the new one it too had richer reds than the original even though I made no changes.

Below is an example (I'm hoping what I'm talking about shows up). Does anyone know what's causing this?

All pictures were originally RAW files, I made EV adjustments in the RAW conversion tool and saved as JPGs. I then finished editing the JPG in Elements. Would going from RAW to TIFF halp me avoid this problem?

*EDIT: Ok, what I'm referring to isn't showing up here in the images (so I deleted one of the pics). It's only evident when I open both images in the Preview utility on my Mac. Will the differences show up if I print the pictures? Is this a common problem or am I making no sense at all?!

 

[Garbz]

Yes
The problem is in relation to the embedded ICC colour profile. The viewing / printing application needs to be colour management aware.

The standard for all photos is sRGB. Open the image in photoshop, click edit -> convert profile -> select sRGB and use the perceptual method, and untick black colour matching. The image should look no different in photoshop since the differences in colour will not be visible using a cheap computer monitor. But it should now look the same regardless of the program you use to view it.

 

[AUZambo]

Thanks! That was it. It's actually easier to change the color profile in the preview utility than in the photoshop program, but that's fixing the problem. I was afraid I was going to have to start over from scratch!