Color mismatch in Photoshop

[pedro.m.reis]

Hi.
I'm new to photoshop so please bare with me.
I'm having a strange problem with photoshop,
I open my pictures in photoshop, save them to jpg and when i'm going to see them in the windows program they are not the same, at least they get darker. Also, when i'm working in grayscale, i get some brownish pictures in photoshop that become perfectly bw in windows program.

Anyone has a clue about this?

[jaapv]

Two possibilities: Your colour space settings are wrong: You are using aRGB and trying to apply sRGB, or your monitor is totally miscalibrated.

[pedro.m.reis]

Here an example of what i'm talking about.
One picture is a screenshot of photophot with the picture ope. The other is the actual picture.

[Fred]

I have the same problem. Even with digital images from a D70 it seems lighter in PS but normal in everything else It aplies to JPG and RAW. Not sure whats wrong. Any help would be appreciated as I'm not an expert.

[Fred]

pedro.m.reis, Great, another Lubitel and Canon A-1 owner. Have fun.

[jaapv]

Try setting PS to full colour management and applying sRGB all the way.
It is better in to use TIFF instead of JPEG when working in PS and converting to JPG at the very end.

[pedro.m.reis]

Originally Posted by jaapv

Try setting PS to full colour management and applying sRGB all the way.
It is better in to use TIFF instead of JPEG when working in PS and converting to JPG at the very end.

Ok, how do i do that?

[jano]

Either your profiles are messed up or your monitor is uncalibrated.

Not sure which version of photoshop you have (can't tell from the screen capture), but looks like cs or cs2.

Understanding color spaces and stuff is really, really hard to do correctly over the internet (easier in person). I'm working on a short "layman's" tutorial to help out, so give me a few weeks. In the meantime... make the following part of your workflow.

Now.. since you posted a b&w shot, your scanner or even you may be applying some b&w profile to the shot. When you are done editing your shot, first..

What you're doing:
convert your photo to RGB mode and then apply the generic color profile.

Here's how:
edit->mode->RGB (to make sure you are in rgb color mode)
edit->convert to profile

If source space is not sRGB, change "destination space" to sRGB, press okay and do a save-as to jpg. If it is, just cancel and save-as your shot.

Now...
IF the first step (edit, mode, RGB) was unecessary
AND IF your source space *is* sRGB in the second step
THEN your problem is an uncalibrated monitor.

Hope this makes sense