April 16, 2008
The Mysterious “Save For Web” Color Shift:
It isn’t a Mac/PC thing, it isn’t a monitor thing, it isn’t because the color profile is somehow set “wrong”. Fellow designers: Somewhere between PSD and JPG, Photoshop is draining our colors of their life, like some horrible, RGB-stealing vampire.
This made my day. ✓
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I thought I was seeing things! Good to know I’m not going crazy.
So what do you do about it? Anything?
Brandon, it’s mostly:
Make sure you view images in Proof Setup > Monitor RGB, or change your color settings to that permanently (or both, for slightly better results).
Then, when saving for web, uncheck ICC Profile, then find the little arrow button and uncheck “convert to sRGB.” This should get you pretty close.
Thanks Doug
Thanks for pointing this out! This issue has been making me crazy!
And seeing this post in the ol’ RSS reader made MY day. Thanks!
Doug Avery
April 16, 2008