PNGs look washed out after saving them from Photoshop

[BenK.]

Before

 

After

Saved the Original Image as a copy to visualise my problem. Could the reason be that the original uses sRGB IEC61966-2.1 and Photoshop converts it into Adobe RGB (1998), and how could I solve it?

[TheDigitalDog]

After you save both, you view them where? IF that other application isn't color-managed, that is the problem.

Without color management, sRGB nor Adobe RGB (1998) has any meaning. 

[BenK.]

I view them in the default Microsoft Photos App, I've also got the same discolouration Ingame in Minecraft. Also to clarify the before picture is the original and the after is nothing changed to it in photoshop and it being saved as a copy.

[TheDigitalDog]

If they don't match Photoshop, those applications are not color managed. 

[Stephen Marsh · Accepted solution]

@BenK. – It sounds like your Colour Management Policies need to be changed to Preserve rather than Convert (Edit > Color Settings).

[D Fosse]

...and make sure that the profile is embedded!

With an embedded color profile, in a color managed application, any profile will be correctly represented and the files display identically.

Windows "Photos" is now fully color managed and will display identically to Photoshop as long as there is an embedded profile. Without a profile, all bets are off and it can look like anything, depending on other factors.

In other words, it doesn't matter which profile. It matters that there is a profile, and that the application reads and uses it. The choice of which color profile to use is determined by other considerations. That said, the safest choice is usually sRGB.

[NB, colourmanagement]

IF you have a file that’s "sRGB IEC61966-2.1 and Photoshop converts it into Adobe RGB (1998)" then you can fix that behaviour in 'Color settings': 'Color management Policies': select "Preserve Embedded Profiles" there.

Viewing images in applications that do not have colour management built in cannot be expected to match Photoshop's fully colour managed appearance. 

You can assess screen accuracy visually to some extent using a reference test image: please go here and download the Adobe RGB testimage: https://www.colourmanagement.net/index.php/downloads_listing/

I use this to assess accuracy: Have you ever wondered how to KNOW whether your screen [or printer] is ACCURATE and not just 'pleasing'?
If so please check this out: http://www.colourmanagement.net/products/icc-profile-verification-kit

I hope this helps neil barstow, 
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