[Maniac]

Ok this problem has been pissing me off a LOT. Now i aint no digital artist so forgive me for coming to this forum

Anyways sometimes when i make my interfaces the way they look as a jpg/gif/png image is totally different from the original photoshop psd. Ive played with ocmpression settings and all but it doesnt help. Even if i use 100% jpg it doesnt give me the same color/contract/gamma(or one of those i think) as the original document

Here is an example http://www.earthnbeyond.com/maniac/va.htm
that is the jpg version.
To download the psd to go www.earthnbeyond.com/maniac/download.htm , right click on the link and click save as.

If you open the psd and compare it with the jpg image you will see the color difference. The jpg comes out looking washed out and crappy. Isnt there anyway i can make the jpg/gif/png look more or less like the original image ?

Please help because this problem has been making me pull my hair out in frustration

Thanx
Maniac

[Pat]

Maniac,

Looks ok to me. I compared both on my monitor and I don't think you're getting any excessive color wash. There is a difference, but a certain amount is to be expected when you convert to a jpg.

If however, there's still too much wash, try overcompensating on the original (maybe add some contrast and saturation) and then compressing it. Photoshop isn't exactly the best .jpg compressor in the world either. If you're REALLY interested in high-end results try a 3rd party jpg compressor. Sometimes I use ProJPEG on the Mac, which uses improved Huffman algorithms for better compression and image fidelity. I'm positive there are similar utilities for the PC.

Hope this helps.

-Pat

BTW, that's a nice texture.

[Chapel]

What do you have your RGB color settings set to under Color Settings (under File)? I have mine set to sRGB and the saving worked fine.

[jzero]

Hey, Maniac,

Try the following experiment. Take a screen shot of your desktop on the same monitor you use for Photoshop, preferably with a solid background color. Then open that shot in Photoshop. If you see a color shift between your actual desktop and the shot when open in PS, then I think your problem lies in your Color Settings. If you don't see a shift, then your problem is elsewhere. Hope that helps.

/jzero

[Maniac]

Yes i see difference in the screenshot. What color settings should i use ? im a total newbie when it comes to color managment so u guys might have to explain it a bit
Really appreciate the replies

Thanx
Maniac

[Rinaldo]

your screen displays a particualr RGB. it's often different for every monitor and changes with how you set it up. the things you see on your screen through a browser or whatever are seen with whatever settings your monitor has. however, Photoshop can compensate for this to alow you to produce pictures for other media.
I'm not sure what exactly your problem is. if you are seeing different things in photoshop as opposed to a browser or image viewer, then it's becuase photoshop is compensating for your monitor, changing it so that it looks like whatever RGB profile you have, there are a lot of reasons why you'd want it to do that. but it's annoying to have things look different out of PS if you view it on the web. even tho other people will see it diferent than you intended anyway.
if you turn off monitor compensation in the RGB setup (PS 5.5 or 5) it will fix this problem as display stuff in PS just as it does in a browser. I forget how to do it in PS6 becuase the colour set up is different.
if you're getting a different colour with the jpeg in photoshop. then I have no idea^_^

I think there are profiles for RGB that give an average of everyone's monotor gamma and setup etc. but not sure which ones. (it would be ideal to set your monotor tro these [through adobe gamma] and then set up Photoshops RGB to the same thing) my adobe gamma is fecked right now otherwise I'd check it out

I have found the Adobe documentation to be a bit lacking when it comes to these bits of the software.

[Jerry]

try just using webcolors they'll turn out the same as you made it.