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PostPosted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 3:14 pm    Post subject: does jpg desaturate? Reply with quote

I'm staring at two pictures, one in photoshop and another of the exact same photograph I saved into JPG...and the red color of the JPG file is desaturated quite a bit compared to that open in Photoshop. When I close everything out and reopen the jpg file in Photoshop it's saturated again. What's the deal?
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 4:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What s/w are you using to display the JPEG file? This is quite a big subject but Photoshop opens images according to both the tagged colour profile. If there isn't one then PS will use the default colour profile specified in your colour settings.
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 4:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

what is the s/w? how can I match the PS color profile and the one used to output?
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 7:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

s/w means software. Browsers and viewers use sRGB color space, while Photoshop displays edited images either in sRGB (narrower) or Adobe RGB (wider) gamma.

If you edit images mainly for Web, open Color Settings dialog (Edit > Color Settings) and choose sRGB as your default color space


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PostPosted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 6:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for your help! Yes, I actually have it set to Adobe RGB (as that's what I shoot in). Is there any other reason it would desaturate? I notice my 'settings' is set to custom, should i set it to "North America Prepress 2"?

edit: or does the adobe rgb cause it to desaturate when saving as a jpg? I don't see why it would, but I'm not familiar enough with this..
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 11:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

So if I'm working in Adobe RGB and my intention is to display these on the web, the picture is going to be desaturated no matter what?
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 11:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes, Web surfers will see your images in sRGB gamma. So, you'd better preview them in the same way.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 10:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

So is Adobe RGB only useful for printing?
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pretty much yes, it contains a wider range of colours than the srgb colour space. If you're using a high-end printer you can print colours that are unavailable in srgb by using the Adobe rgb colour space.
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