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I’ve had this problem a couple different times and I’m not sure what is causing it. I edit a photo in PS and save the file as a jpg. The picture looks normal when I view it with Windows photo viewer, but if I send the exact same jpg file via email or upload to a photo site, the colors are changed. I have emailed and uploaded dozens of photos with no problem, but this issue has occurred with maybe 3 or 4 photos. In trying to resolve the problem, I went under “export” in PS and as you can see from the attached screenshot, it is trying to export it with the changed colors. What you see in the export window is how the picture looks when emailed or uploaded. The PS window shows how I actually edited the photo and how it appears when viewed in Windows photo viewer. Has anyone had an issue like this or have any idea what might be causing it?
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Hmm, I guess I haven’t really been observant enough of my own pictures to notice if that is what happens to my jpgs when I upload online.
Does it only effect certain colors? such as only red, or blue?
Could it be that those pictures are a different Color Space or Channel (Image > Mode)?
Is the Proof Colors turned on or off between the different shots (View > Proof Colors)?
Proof Colors was turned off. Should it be turned on? The picture looks the same whether on or off. The color space is RGB. It seems to me that it is affecting all the colors to some extent. Here’s another example with a different photo. This time I saved the photo as a .tif file. I opened it in Windows photo viewer and it looks like it did when I edited in PS. While still viewing the picture in Windows photo viewer, I right-clicked on the photo and then clicked on “set as desktop background”. The photo is posted as my desktop background, but again the colors are different than they are when viewed in photo viewer. I repeated the process with the photo saved as a .jpg file and the same thing happens again. Same picture, same monitor but looks different as a desktop background than it does in photo viewer.
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Try using Export>Save for Web instead of the normal export dialog. It offers options to fix this that the standard export doesn’t.
Your problem is that many web browsers (and other applications too) are not able to display the same amount of colors that Photoshop and many other professional editing apps. So basically, you are exporting an image that has more color information stored in it than the browser you are using can display. The browser sort of freaks out, and tries to show what it can – leading to the washed-out look you are seeing.
When you export, make sure you check the “Convert to sRGB” box as shown in the attached screenshot. This will make Photoshop resample the image, using only the colors that are “Web safe”, ie. that your browser (and everyone else’s) are actually capable of displaying. You should wind up with an image that look *much* more like your original. Freaked me out the first time this happened to me 🙂
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Thanks @mrstevens! It looks like that may have solved my problem. It at least made the difference when setting the picture as my desktop background as you can see from the attached file.
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Sweet! Thanks so much, @mrstevens. Learn something new every day!
@dan-cope, are your pictures sRGB before exporting them for web?
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