Photoshop Question - Signatures

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  1. dem0ndeath

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    Ok i have been making a lot of signatures lately. And inside of photoshop they look darker and a lot better, but as soon i convert them to PNG or JPEG with highest quality settings they seem to brighten up and lose a lot of color. Any suggestions or ideas?

    Thanks.
     
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    Look at your color settings. What is your workspace RGB set to?
     
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    In case i look in the wrong spot, where do i go?
     
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    [​IMG]

    I think this is correct, are these settings wrong?
     
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    No, that's what you want. I was just making sure you weren't in Adobe RGB or ProPhoto, since those have to be down converted to be viewable on the internet.

    Are you viewing them on the internet, or in Photoshop? Browsers will display images differently. Also, do you click "Save for Web" or "Save As"?

    jpeg, as my teacher has said millions of times, throws out random bits of info to compress the file. They're not truly random, but a lot is thrown out. Png, however, shouldn't be losing any detail. It uses a lossless form of compression, so that when it's opened up, you see it how it is.


    If you have a legal version of Photoshop, it would benefit you to ask for assistance on Adobe's support forums :)
     
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    I have done save as and save for web both lighten up the image. On my old computer it was fine. But now that i have a better computer its weird. I have also tried both, PNG and JPEG. Same issue.
     
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    Here is exactly what it does.

    Before Saving it ( Still in Photoshop ):

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    After Saving it:

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    It doesn't make sense that the screenshot saved as a png appears correctly, and the file itself appears brighter. You're not losing any adjustment layers or anything, right? I'd also see what happens when you check/uncheck "ICC Profile" in the Save As menu. Could always switch to tiff too :P

    I'm gonna be honest and say that I probably can't help you here. You know about as much as I do; I'm just digging in the dark. Maybe try a search on Google, if you haven't already, and see if anyone shares this problem.


    Do yourself a favor and don't use save for web ;). It's an icky thing that has only benefited me when making animations. So much data loss.
     
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    ok thanks. I dont even know what to search for on google lol. Cant make it too long or it wont come up with anything at all. But i will see what i can dig up. THanks for your time and efforts.
     
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    Tried unchecking that box, saving as a tiff. Nothing. But thanks again
     
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    Try this.

    View ->Proof Colors (on)
    View ->Proof Setup -> Monitor RGB (on, instead of whatever custom setting it was on).
     
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    ACK! No! You never want to use Monitor RGB because it's not standard. The only one who will see what you see is yourself. That's why you need to use a color profile like sRGB, Adobe RGB, or ProPhoto. You need to calibrate your monitor to see what everyone else will see, not the other way around.

    Besides, I don't think this is that issue. That fixes the off-white color you get when your colors are wrong, but doesn't effect the conversion from psd to jpeg or png.

    Last I checked, proof colors has to do with printing, not sharing... Proof colors should be off. Although the color blindness views look pretty interesting :D
     
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    Meh, I googled, found someone with exactly same problem, that was solution.
     
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    Well I suppose since he can always change it back it doesn't hurt to try. If it works you should to the same thing you did in the other post dem0n, where you posted a photoshop version and a png version so we can tell you if it looks ok to us.
     
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    Ok will try it asap
     

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