Re: Photoshop .psd format darker?

Photoshop is a fairly complex program, and it's expected that it's going to
be used on any number of configurations.  i may want the screen to match
the capabilities of my printed image, instead, for example.

You can set the gamma levels and colour mixes under the
file/preferences/colours/monitors menu item (i can't remember exactly what
it's called)

similarily, if you do in-house printing, you've got the opportunity to set
specific changes to the colour separation amounts/ratios, eetc.

if you're just worried about the web, i suggest opening a large image (jpg
with lots of colours) up in your browser, and opening the same image in
photoshop.  do your adjustment, and you're done.

i'd suggest, however that you make sure that you're in 24-bit colour, even
if you've got to go down to 640x480, and even if you're usually at 16-bit,
etc.

hope this helps,
Green


At 03:07 PM 12/4/97 -0500, Figment wrote:
>At 01:33 PM 12/4/97 -0600, Tony Powell wrote:
>>This seems ridiculous, but I am having trouble with Photoshop graphics,
>>once exported to gif89, being darker when viewed in a browser (or anything
>>other than Photoshop itself).  This makes for a "guess" approach when doing
>>graphics.  I wish I could be more specific as to what hues, etc., are less
>>intense, but it's just plain old darker.  Has anyone else had this problem?
>
>Now THIS is ironic!  I was just messing with this problem this morning.  I
>had a graphic that I loaded into my browser and it was very dark with a
>reddish tone.  I opened it in Photoshop to adjust, and it looked fine.  I
>couldn't get what I saw in the browser to match what I saw in Photoshop.
>This particular graphic was in JPG format.
>
>Then, I opened it in Paint Shop Pro.  It looked just as bad as in the
>browser.  I adjusted it in THERE, and it looked beautiful in the browser.
>(Looked exactly as it did in PSP.)  Opened it in Photoshop again, and it
>looked completely washed out. 
>
>Sorry this isn't an answer to your question.  You just beat me to the
>question I had!  So, if anyone has any answers to this one, please copy me.
>
>Cherie Powell
>Could this just be a Powell problem? <g>
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