Photoshop CS weirdness

punchier colours when you 'save for the web'

[gazraa]

Whenever I save for the web for any of my buttons, logos, photos or whatever the colours become a lot punchier, as if the saturation has been turned up.

It's not really a desirable result, although sometimes it does give my photos more impact. It's not a major diference, but a definite difference. Is this likely to be some sort of config issue, or am i going to have to reinstall?

Has anyone seen this before?

[lZakl]

gazraa,

GIF's using web-safe colors are what you are most likely regarding as your 'problem'.

If that is the case, then what you are seeing is normal. It's something that everyone deals with when making images for the web. Web-safe colors, while limited in number, are first off better as-far-as compatibility with the number of users viewing your site, and second, better as far as being able to compact the image for smaller file size to make a "better behaved" website.

If you really want the colors to look exactly the way they look in Photoshop, save them as a JPG with High Compression. (Your surfers won't like you very much though ;0)

-- Zak

[gazraa]

it's happening on jpegs though, even when I go as high as 60% quality.

I could understand it on gifs, but why would it do it for jpgs too?

[lZakl]

Is thee a difference if you don't "save for web" and do the compression youself in the "save as" dialog? You may be still using "web-safe" colors... which, by the way, is a good thing.

-- Zak

[InTheZone]

Color shifts usually occur when the color profile being used in Photoshop is different than the color profile that the monitor is using for other applications. i.e. browsers etc.

To correct the difference you can change the color profile in "Display Settings" to match the color profile you're using in Photoshop or change the color profile that you're using in Photoshop to sRGB IEC61966-2.1, which is pretty much the default color space of most monitors.