Ok, my brain hurts. I have been dealing with this for 2 days and am getting nowhere. (and I need to post on my blog!!) All of the sudden I am having problems with color changes in photoshop. I never had this problem before, and I am not sure if I accidently clicked something (or my kids) but all my blog post photos look flat and desaturated.

I take my photos from LR as tifs and resize in PS and then I always did "save for web" and they were fine (occassional slight color change but nothing much), but now they look aweful!! Flat, dull, and desaturated. I then got on here and researched, googled it, and found I am not alone. I tried to do "save as" and it didn't help which really confused me. Now all my photos look desaturated with a green cast to them, UNLESS I do "save for web" which still makes them look flat.

AHHHH!!!! I'm going insane over here!!

If it helps at all, I use wordpress with Jared's prophoto theme.

Any advice would be wonderful!!!

Try this:

Image> Image size> and choose your size...say 500 px width with contrstraint proportions on.

Oh... and make sure your in sRGB mode.

Thanks JAC. I do that, but someone told me to change it to 8 bit for my blog, so I do that as well when resizing.

Is the sRGB in "color settings"? Should I have "North America General Purpose 2" selected?

I had the same problem at first, but it was because I was exporting in the wrong color space. I now use srgb and it is fine.

oops I should have read the post better. I only had that problem in LR.



Forget I was ever here LOL

sRGB is under colour settings. Yes North American General purpose 2 is right.

Mine are always 8 bit channels, web or not.

Hmmm....I guess I'm at a loss of what else to recommend.
Sorry Jess.

Just a thought... after you change the image size are you just saving it, or saving it for web?

that's ok. I'm determined to figure this out though. thanks guys!

Sounds like a color profile issue. Before you save a file for web use, go to Edit -> Convert to Profile. Destination profile should be sRGB IECblahblah413. If the "Source Space" is something different than that, therein lies the problem. Convert it to sRGB and save and it should be good.

JAC, I used to always "Save for web" but tried "save as" to see if the color would remain the same which it did not.

Lynn, thanks for that tip. In my messing around indeed I had changed that. Now at least the green cast is gone form my photos, but they still have the desaturated look.

thanks for the help.

Try the .jpg quality settings now?

Can you post an example?

ahhh!! I can't get the examples to show you guys because the colors are shifting. (just spent 20 minutes trying) maybe i need to call a psych ward instead.

Jessica they have the de-saturated look because you are not seeing them in photoshop like you should.

Before you do a save for web, go to view in the menu bar>Proof set up>Monitor RGB.

This will change the image to what it will look like on line, and then you can make adjustments and do the save for web. I usually go into levels and move the middle slider to the right a little and it brings it back to about where you had it before it lightened and de-saturated.

You can also save the image to your desktop after you do this and click on and drag the image into an open web browser window. It will show you true colors there too.

Follow the steps above and it should do it for you. You can write an action for this process after you do it a couple of times so it is just a one button click to get to that point.

Hope that helps

Thanks Frank. I tried what you said, and after I selected "moniter RGB" the photo looks like it has the green cast over it again. Is that what yours looks like? Then when I adjusted the sliders, it still looked wrong.

??

Not sure what happened before, but we just tried it again and the green mess was gone. We got it to work!!!

Thanks a ton.

Yay!!! I'm so happy for you!

thanks JAC!!!! just got my blog post up that I had been holding off on for 2 days becuase I couldn't bear having the rich colors flattened.

thanks everyone for your help.

Niiiiiiiicce!
Glad it worked for you
Left you some blog luv too.

Try it a couple more times and then make a action for it. This is the best way I know how to do it (because it really is what you see is what you get). Of course I can't take the credit though, someone taught me that on here a long time ago.