JPG color mismatch PS/IE

DoctorIt

So I just recently noticed that when I save my images as a jpg and post them to my website (NOT doing "save for web") they look different in my browser than they do in Photoshop - IE and PS CS, specifically. For example:

http://www-unix.ecs.umass.edu/~ermiller/photos/2004-02/2004-02-13.jpg

Save that one locally, then open it up in PS, put the two windows side by side, and tell me if you see if a difference... it's subtle, but there.

Is it a PS thing? Maybe color settings? My working space is set to Adobe RGB.

cletus

You're right! It's a pretty noticable difference. After switching to sRGB (Image > Mode > Assign Proflie) the PS copy matched the copy in Firebird. So I guess I'm going to have to read up on color spaces

pathfinder

cletus wrote:

You're right! It's a pretty noticable difference. After switching to sRGB (Image > Mode > Assign Proflie) the PS copy matched the copy in Firebird. So I guess I'm going to have to read up on color spaces

Web browsers are configured sRGB are they not? Photoshop version later than 5, I believe, allow you to specify your color space sRGB, Adobe RGB, Colorsync for Apple, etc - Is this responsible for the differences that yoiu notice?

Shay Stephens

DoctorIt wrote:

So I just recently noticed that when I save my images as a jpg and post them to my website (NOT doing "save for web") they look different in my browser than they do in Photoshop - IE and PS CS, specifically. For example:

http://www-unix.ecs.umass.edu/~ermiller/photos/2004-02/2004-02-13.jpg

Save that one locally, then open it up in PS, put the two windows side by side, and tell me if you see if a difference... it's subtle, but there.

Is it a PS thing? Maybe color settings? My working space is set to Adobe RGB.

Web browser color space is typically SRGB not adobe, you need to switch the color space when saving an image destined for the web. If you do a "Save for web" then it does that for you.