Issue with color settings in Photoshop

Neil is spot on. You are working with untagged images. They don't have a color profile. Never do that.

In Save For Web, all color management is by default disabled, for some reason. You have to manually turn it on:

First, check "embed color profile". Always keep this checked. Then, set Preview to "Use Document Profile". Not "Monitor Color" or any of the others. Always keep this setting too.

With these settings, Save For Web will match Photoshop, they both have full color management.

Hi

Very helpful to have those screen shots

Are you in the US? is that why you have chosen those color settings?

An untagged document will misbehave if reopened after 'color settings' are changed - that’s because the untagged RGB document profile is presumed to be from the default RGB color space (currently sRGB) as set in color settings as default. 

That’s one reason why one must always embed an icc profile in a document.

IF you use " for web" I suggest you always check "embed profile, who knows why Adobe didn’t make that the default. 

To fix the issue - try edit/assign profile = Adobe RGB to the document. 

Additionally, though, you do need ideally to calibrate the screen to achieve accurate colour preview.

For that you need a sensor like the X-Rite i1 display pro

I prefer basICColor display as a calibration software but the software that comes free with the i1 display pro will get you started. 

something about that software here https://www.colourmanagement.net/products/basiccolor/basiccolor-display-software

I hope this helps

if so, please "like" my reply and if you're OK now, please mark it as "correct", so that others who have similar issues can see the solution

thanks

neil barstow, colourmanagement.net :: adobe forum volunteer

[please do not use the reply button on a message in the thread, only use the one at the top of the page, to maintain the thread title and the chronological order]