Pro Show Gold..... desaturate??

Do you desaturate when making slideshows for TV? I notice many televisions seem to display the images with a LOT more color than what I see on my computer. Is this normal?

Also since TV's aren't necessarily calibrated for color perfection, some colors (like reds) appear stronger.

Does anyone else have this concern? I'm thinking desaturating bt 15% would be sufficietn, but I;m interested to know what others are doing.

Thanks for any input!

All I know is photographs look horrible on TV, mainly tube televisions. The colour is all over the place, sometimes wayyyyy too bright, sometimes way to dark, and it totally depends on the TV. There's no way you'll ever get it to look nice on all TV sets, so I gave up...

And many TV's have their RGB guns out of aim so it looks like you have horrid abberations all over your pictures. Man, I hate looking at my photos on TV... they looks so crappy in comparison to my monitor and prints...

Which desaturate? Each image on proshow? The whole show in the "create dvd" screen? The images in photoshop before you hit proshow?

Hi! Thanks for the reply Tim and picture Crazy.... I knew I would find the guru here...

I know... TV's are a terrible way to view the shows..... but people want DVDs, and they are a nice way to begin a proofing session, which I aways do at the client's home, so... I get to look at my pretty images looking very un -pretty on a TV screen

Yes, I was thinking of desaturating the entire show in the "create DVD" menu. There isn't a way to preview it, so I wondered how it would look... Do you think that 15 - 20% would be sufficient to soften the color but still render a nice image for TV's?

Thanks again for your reply.. I have a high regard for your opinions.

I process all my images in photoshop, then import into proshow. B&W done with channel mixer. If you must I think you can do a desaturate the image in each slide, then apply the settings to all slides. I wouldn't desaturate in the DVD creation menu, just because that's not what it's meant to be for.

The biggest problem is most people set their TV's to have crazy colors cause most broadcasts are quite dull. And TV manufactures like putting junk like "Dynamic Picture Mode" cause I guess it helps the sale.

Even if you desaturated the DVD a lot, it'll still look bad on those TV's.

tim wrote in post #2387093
I process all my images in photoshop, then import into proshow. B&W done with channel mixer. If you must I think you can do a desaturate the image in each slide, then apply the settings to all slides. I wouldn't desaturate in the DVD creation menu, just because that's not what it's meant to be for.

Okay, I'll see if I can desaturate the images then. I just finished editing everything and don't want to go back into photoshop to desaturate each one individually so was hoping to find a short cut... I'll see if Proshow will let me do the adjustment and then apply it to all slides.

Thanks everyone for your input.

If it works to desaturate in the dvd menu do it. Do it in photoshop with channel mixer for better result if you're fussy.