Colour Saturation decreases when loading to Web

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Can anyone help with this, as it's driving me :nut:

Whilst opening a shot in Photo Shops CS2, or looking through Explorer the colour saturation can look perfect. Yet when I load it to Photobucket or TPF Galleries the picture loses saturation :( . As a test I had to increase Saturation of a test shot by about 12-15 points, so that when it was loaded to web it looked correct :Ponders:

I am using Adobe RGB 98 colour profile in PS, as per most guidelines.

Any ideas what is going on ?
 
Barry informs me he had the same problem and he fixed it by using the SRGB profile....he thinks :nut:
 
What happens if you use your internet browser to open the local file?

If it looks OK locally it should look the same when it is hosted - unless the host reprocesses it.
 
I suspect it could be the discrepancy between two colour profiles.

I suspect your local viewing settings are based on Adobe RGB, and the web is geared towards sRGB.
 
Yep.. switch to sRGB colour space. Make sure you have it selected in your camera too. :)
 
Cheers.

Having just watched CS2 official training DVDs & latest link by Gary re Image stds, then Adobe RGB(98) is advised as standard...which I have used.

Comment re possible colour profiles not matching may be the case, as this problem was with an archive shot.

From testing local file, saturation looked correct in PS, plus viewing by Picture viewer . Looked desaturated from Mozzila view of local file...same as per load to web. Also tried downloading shot from web, at which point it was same as original.

So darned complicated these puter thingies ;)
 
Well against all the advice I'm backto SRGB which creates saved files that look same on WEB as original.
 
I am sorry I missed this earlier. I work in RGB and them the final step before I am ready for saving the file for web use I go to edit > Convert to profile it then opens a new dialoge in which I select...
sRGB IEC61966-2.1" as the destination space
Adobe ACE as the conversion engine
relative colourmetric as the intent
I also have Black point compensation and use dither ticked as well.

Then when I save for web my colours appear identical to what I was using in PS.

Its a bit late but I hope it helps someone :)


EDIT I only do this for my web size photos, I always work in RGB for the rest of my workflow and printing ;)
 
Cheers Steve....have been assigning SRGB profile just before web save also :) ...will look at the other sub-options you mention.
 
I had a right nightmare with pictures looking different on the Web to what it looked like in CS2........mine would look way oversaturated on the Web.
 
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