Friend is having an issue saving jpegs.

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A friend of mine has recently bought a DSLR. He's shooting in RAW but he's experiencing issues - when he opens them in photoshop, processes them and saves them as jpegs, the save is noticeably darker and more contrast-y.

Any ideas? :shrug:
 
He said "I've tried changing the colour profile to sRGB too but doesn't help."
 
toadstool said:
A friend of mine has recently bought a DSLR. He's shooting in RAW but he's experiencing issues - when he opens them in photoshop, processes them and saves them as jpegs, the save is noticeably darker and more contrast-y.

Any ideas? :shrug:
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Are they different when viewing the JPEGs in Photoshop, or other image viewers? How is he viewing the RAW? Does he mean darker than on the camera's screen? If so... who cares.. your preview screen on camera is essentially useless for visually judging how bright an image is.
 
toadstool said:
He said "I've tried changing the colour profile to sRGB too but doesn't help."
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Do they look darker in PS itself or in Windows Photo Viewer/web browser? What do they look like on someone else's computer?
 
David, I don't think he's talking about on the back of the camera - he means when he's processed the raw files and saved them as JPEGs, when he opens that JPEG, it's darker than it was in RAW.

I've asked him if he's actually editing the JPEG or just saving the RAW as it came out of the camera. Also passed along your replies and waiting for an answer :)
 
He said he opens the RAW file in camera raw and edits it how he wants then saves it as a jpeg. In photoshop, it looks fine. In microsoft image viewer, it's darker.
 
He's just fired this over:
"as far as I can tell it's some like...f***forgottheterm...like "programming" where it's not saving the correct colour profile so other programmes arent displaying it correctly but photoshop still reconises the correct way"

He'd said previously that changing it to srgb then saving didn't make a difference.

Have suggested he gets a flickr account and uploads a photo he's having the issue with.
 
It's possible that Photoshop is using sRGB but the monitor is using something else. Go into Control Panel, choose the Color Management widget, and see which ICC profile the display is using.
 
I've sent Keith's reply to him - when he responds (he's got a busy weekend ahead of him!) I'm going to tell him to get on here :D
 
This is almost certainly a colour profiling issue.

abdoujaparov said:
It's possible that Photoshop is using sRGB but the monitor is using something else. Go into Control Panel, choose the Color Management widget, and see which ICC profile the display is using.
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I doubt that's the reason... whatever profile is being used for the display, both windows, and Photoshop will be using that same profile, so even if it's the wrong profile, then it should still be consistently wrong.

Windows Photo Viewer does not play nice with v.4 ICC profiles though.. so that's a possibility. Chances are though, the images are just not embedded with a suitable colour profile.
 
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