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Photoshop experts, I need your help! Color setting problems.

by Spartacus
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Hi,

I have this problem with my color settings, it's been a while since I've been using photoshop and the first thing I do when I've installed Photoshop is to change the color settings. I change the working space to my monitors color profile (DELL 2407WFP-HC) which is also installed on Windows 7. This has allways worked perfectly fine (at least it did on Win XP), the colors that I chose in Photoshop have allways been exactly the same outside of photoshop and in all browsers.

But right now this is not the case, the image colors I have in photoshop are quite alot different in Internet Explorer and just slightly different in Chrome and Firefox.

For example, the color #02020d.

Internet Explorer: #000003
Chrome & Firefox: #02020e

Right now I'm having this as a background color through css for a site I'm working on locally, and I'm using a background image on the top of this page that blends into the same color, so you will understand that it looks really odd in IE.

It's really frustrating, I need the colors to be exactly the same as it has allways been.

Your help is really appreciated.

#color #experts #photoshop #problems #setting
  • Profile picture of the author envisionit2011
    Alot of things come into play that could be a factor, but my suggestion would be to make sure your color profile in photoshop is set for sRGB (this is what most browsers like) and export the bg image as JPG if it's not already JPG because it is more posssible that PNG and GIF will show slight differences between browsers...

    If I could see your website and CSS I could prob help you better but hopefully this is the issue as it usually is...Good luck with it!
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    • Profile picture of the author Spartacus
      I tried this before and it didn't work but for some reason it does now.

      The hex code changed from 02020d to 03030d though.

      I never ever had this on XP with the same monitor and color profile, can only say it's since Win 7 or a newer version of IE.

      I've also read about using the color profile Adobe 1998 for webdesigners and photographers as it's richer in colors, what do most webdesigners use at the moment?. I'll stick to sRGB for now.
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      • Profile picture of the author envisionit2011
        I wouldn't be surprised it was due to IE...As a web design I always use the sRGB setting when doing anything for a site inside photoshop, and because in the beginning I had ALOT of issues with IE, I typically build in my editor and check through IE first, then Firefox. Also, I try not to update to the newer version of IE until it's been out for a while, last time I updated I ended up reverting back to the old version because it just wasn't working good for me, I also use windows 7.

        Glad you got your site / images as you needed! Good luck with future builds.
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        • Profile picture of the author Spartacus
          I guess I was too quick.

          The images that I had the problem with are converted to sRGB and I've also changed the background color of my site to the right color through css so that the image blends with the background. But now the problem exists in Mozilla Firefox while Internet Explorer and Google Chrome output the right image color.

          So I have the same problem over again but this time in Mozilla Firefox. The two images appear darker in Firefox.

          Idea's?

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  • Profile picture of the author Robert Michael
    Take a screen shot of your site's background where you have an empty space. Then just crop it, copy it, and keep pasting it until its big enough for what you need to do.

    Not saying its the best or easiest way, but it would work.

    Thats how I did the image for my signature. I just took a screen shot of the forum, cropped the empty space, resized it to what I needed & went from there.
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    • Profile picture of the author Spartacus
      Originally Posted by Whos That Guru View Post

      Take a screen shot of your site's background where you have an empty space. Then just crop it, copy it, and keep pasting it until its big enough for what you need to do.

      Not saying its the best or easiest way, but it would work.

      Thats how I did the image for my signature. I just took a screen shot of the forum, cropped the empty space, resized it to what I needed & went from there.
      I'm not sure what you meant but I've found a way that it works now.

      By going to 'Save for web & devices' and having 'convert to sRGB' off. Then save as PNG.

      If I save it as JPG I have both the boxes 'embed color profile' & 'convert to sRGB' off.

      Even though I use the sRGB color profile/space, it is working now.
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  • Profile picture of the author Robert Michael
    LOL I wont lie, I have no idea what any of that means.

    Im a Microsoft Paint specialist

    hahaha glad to hear you got it working tho!
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