Image saving very bright

I tested bringing in the photo raw from the original photo and then saving it and it is soming up exactly the same on the web. After some testing, I am guessing this is from the extra layering in Layers that's going on. Do I need to merge?

I don't think this has anything to do with color profiles.

I think it's because you're not viewing at 100%, so you get a misleading preview.

This whole image seems to be made up of thin lines and hatching. To represent that correctly on screen, you need to see it at 100%, which maps one image pixel to exactly one screen pixel. Otherwise you get softening and blurring of the thin lines, which introduces intermediate values that aren't there in the full original data.

All adjustment and blending previews are calculated on the basis of the on-screen image. If this is softened and blurred, the preview is misleading. The final result is correct. The preview is wrong.

If you compare all of these at 100%, I'm pretty sure they will be absolutely identical.

I am saving and reopening - and the image fades and appear much brighter or just faded within photoshop on import, yes that's correct.

Ive been resorting to just taking a Mac screenshot of the image which retains the exact look, even on the web. Im

assuming that resets the colors to an approximation.

My main concern was that it should appear correctly on my Macbook in Preview. That would be the first step. Usually if it appears correctly there - I'm good to go.

I'll check the original ICC Profile. I'm pretty sure I started the project in sRGB. I'll turn off any color Assignment too but I've actually already tried that and it's still exporting very faded like you see in the third picture.

You write "assign"

"Assign Profile" is a command in Photoshop that causes a lot of confusion.

"Assign Profile" should only very rarely be used - for example when opening an image without any ICC profile embedded. [and even then its risky, because deciding which profile to assign is hard unless you know the originator's intention on appearance. Each assigned profile will alter the image appearance.

An original created in Photoshop is made within a specific colourspace, e.g. sRGB / Adobe RGB

If you need that image [or whatever] file to be in a different colourspace (as defined by it's ICC profile tag) then you must CONVERT to that colourspace, e.g. an AdobeRGB file may be converted to sRGB and saved out (with sRGB profile embedded) for web use.  

If you have an sRGB image open in Photoshop, save and reopen then the appearance should be unchanged, are you meaning that is what is happening?

It can appear different in a web browser, for sure. Some web browsers need to bne set prperly to use colour management (i.e. to read icc profiles and use them for display).

I hope this helps

thanks
neil barstow, colourmanagement.net :: adobe forum volunteer
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Are the image appearing differently when opened in Photoshop ot in some non-color-managed application?