picture quality

Please, I need hellp as soon as possible! Problem is: i am shootting in RAW, photoshopping pictures with CS2, resizing them, but... when i send them by e-mail, they are loosing colour, i mean they doesnt have this "juicy" colours after i send them by e-mail to client! I can see the difference on my computor only if one pictures is open in CS2 and the saim one is open in my e-mail account! They doesnt look similar! Bust what's the strange that one time everything it's ok, and the ather not! What is wrong?

One contributary cause is that the email (and the whole internet environment) does not recognise colour profiles. So even if you convert to sRGB when preparing your images to e-mail, you will never get them to match exactly.

This should not give you as much grief as you report however. Do you view your shots in proof mode? I wonder if this can be set up to show the likely effects of sRGB? I'd imagine it could, even though I've never tried.

Richard.

What is the actual format you send them as? And how are you saving them?

Have a read in the link from my sig.
Use sRGB.

Or yeah, listen to that guy. Man thats a good thread!

Oh my!!! Now i see which colours i will get if i'll send by e-mail! So in CS2 i resize picture (kept highest qualitty), then go to File -> Save For the Web and it showd me exactly the saim colour loss as on the web! Please, which settings do i have to save there to get the saim colours as original picture?
P.S. Rene, i did red ur sticky long time ago and did checked and calibrated computor long time ago! Thank you
still dont understand why one pictures changing colours when i send by e-mail and the others doesnt! usually if client have light skin, picture getting even lighter!

Cherepashka wrote in post #4333142
Oh my!!! Now i see which colours i will get if i'll send by e-mail! So in CS2 i resize picture (kept highest qualitty), then go to File -> Save For the Web and it showd me exactly the saim colour loss as on the web! Please, which settings do i have to save there to get the saim colours as original picture?
P.S. Rene, i did red ur sticky long time ago and did checked and calibrated computor long time ago! Thank you
still dont understand why one pictures changing colours when i send by e-mail and the others doesnt! usually if client have light skin, picture getting even lighter!

I would suspect that "Saving for Web" is "assigning" the sRGB profile.

Try this. Before you Save for Web. Go to Edit > Convert To Profile.. and choose sRGb and then do a Save As instead of the Save for Web and see how that is for you.

I think save for web/device kills color profiles. Or since its an optimization program adds one that occupies less space.

Why not use image -> resize than just save file and send, forget save for web?

rw2 wrote in post #4333971
Why not use image -> resize than just save file and send, forget save for web?

Still need to make sure that a colour profile has been allocated first though.

I always go for what rammy said: first, make sure that Image->mode is 8 bits, then Edit->Convert to Profile, sRGB. It'll work for either Save to Web or Save As. Save. Works. Happy.

rammy wrote in post #4333328
I would suspect that "Saving for Web" is "assigning" the sRGB profile.

No. Save for web doesn't do zilch to the color profile up to CS3. CS3 has the option to "convert to sRGB".

carianoff wrote in post #4333826
I think save for web/device kills color profiles.

Only if you don't tick the box "ICC profile". Tick the box, and a profile is embedded.

As said, convert to sRGB if the image is in another color space, then save (for web).

In the "save for web" dialog there are different options on how the preview is shown:

HTTP response: 404 | MIME changed to 'text/html' | Byte size: ZERO

Are you inserting them or attaching them? As far as I know attached images aren't changed at all, whereas inserted they are adapted to web viewing.

The next hurdle is whether your client has a good and calibrated monitor so that he can see the same thing you sent. (That's assuming you have a good and calibrated monitor too. )

René Damkot wrote in post #4337677
In the "save for web" dialog there are different options on how the preview is shown:

Thanks for thats, going to help me out alot.