color change on save to web

[blinking8s]

ok, when i am done processing my pictures in photoshop, I am noticing a extreme shift in color when saving the image from photoshop. I usually save for web but keep my quality pretty high.

Anyone have a clue? I recall reading something on how to prevent something similar a while back

I am using photoshop CS

[robertwgross]

When you say you are seeing a color shift, from where to where? From a TIF one place and a JPEG another?

Often you can be editing in one color depth, and then saving in a reduced color depth or with a different color space assigned. I see slight shifts from 48-bit color to 24-bit color TIFs.

---Bob Gross---

[JoseC]

ok, when i am done processing my pictures in photoshop, I am noticing a extreme shift in color when saving the image from photoshop. I usually save for web but keep my quality pretty high.

Anyone have a clue? I recall reading something on how to prevent something similar a while back

I am using photoshop CS

I think I know what you mean, because I have noticed more saturated pictures when saved for web than what I had on my monitor.
I can not explain why, but here is what I do that gives better results.
I got to Image / mode / assign profile and switch from "dont color manage this document" to Profile : Adobe RGB( 1998)
I am using photoshop 6.0 so I might be slightly different for you.
Hope somebody could explain why this works better.
Regards
Jose

[Jesper]

It's probably a colour management issue.

What is your working space in Photoshop set to (probably Adobe RGB)? Convert the image to sRGB (Image / Mode / Convert to Profile and choose "sRGB IEC..."). Adobe RGB looks bad in non-color managed applications; the sRGB colour space is designed to look as good as possible in non-color managed applications (such as Internet Explorer and almost all other Windows applications).

[Scottes]

Often I will work on an image in Adobe RGB and when done I do a Save For Web. The JPG window is noticably color-shifted from the original. This doesn't always happen, but often enough. Because of this I now convert to 8-Bit sRGB *then* do Save For Web. No color shift.

[scottbergerphoto]

I believe that Saving for Web strips the embedded color profile as the web is for sRGB. If you open a file that has been Saved For Web in PS, PS tells you it has no color profile and asks you what you want to do. So if your image is in Adobe RGB and you save for web, it will now appear different as it is read as if it were sRGB.
Scott