Color not right when saving

Actually your post seems unclear to me:

• Do the images look differently when you open them again in Photoshop?

• Do the images look differently in other applications?

In the second case the problem would apparently not be Photoshop’s.

As davescm and macpawel already explained one needs to embed the profile but even that would not help if the other application does not use Color Management.

Please post meaningful screenshots to illustrate the issue.

Hi

Photoshop is colour managed. That means that the numbers behind every pixel in your image refer to a specific colour. What colour that is depends on the colour space of the image. That in turn is stored in a colour profile.  That might sound complicated but what it means is that you need to ensure that the colour profile is embedded in any image you save.

If you do that, on re-opening the image in Photoshop (or any other color managed application) the colors will be displayed the same as when you saved them.

It does rely on getting some settings correct.

In Photoshop colour settings - the color management Policies (all three) should be set to "Preserve Embedded Profiles".

In Save As - the ICC Profile option should be checked when saving

If using Export e.g Export > Save for Web the checkboxes for Convert to sRGB and Embed Color Profile should both be checked.

That last point ensures that when you export an image for web use it is converted to the sRGB color space and has a profile describing that color space. That is important for two reasons. Firstly, colour managed web browsers and applications can read the profile and use it correctly. Secondly, unfortunately some applications and browsers are not colour managed. In reality all bets are off in terms of how those applications will display colour. But by converting the image to the sRGB space - they may get close.

Dave

Maybe your images are saved in CMYK mode? And you finally browse tchem via system picture browser? This way color could change.

Another option is Color Space and saving with or without color profiles

pawel

No simple answers here. You need to read up on how color management works. The basic gist is that PS is a color managed app and makes certain assumptions about color spaces when no explicit CM is instated and that apparently doesn't account for your customized monitor color profile or simply it being wrongly tweaked.

Mylenium