Adobe photoshop image export causes changes in colors

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I am using Adobe Photoshop CS2 Version 9.0.2 on Windows XP.
I am having trouble exporting images from a psd file, because the colors in the resulting image are not the same as in the original file (fthe differences are obvious when opening with IrfanView or when I use them on my website). If I open the resulting image with Photoshop, than the colors match the original.

If this is of some help, the exported images have the same colors as when watching the original file with the Monitor RGB Proof Setup checked. (Menu View->Proof Setup->Monitor RGB), but they should look like when the option Windows RGB is checked.

I am a beginner in Photoshop and I couldn't find a solution for this problem. Even a simple copy-paste from the file causes the color change.

Could anyone give me some pointers on how I should make the export so that the colors don't change?

Thank you

Best Answer

You might want to check your view>proof setup

Make sure it is set to "Monitor RGB"

Then you will see the same colors as the export will be. You will probably have to adjust your colors, but now the exported images will look the same.

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This is down to Photoshop's colour management.

Try setting 'Proof Colors' to 'Monitor RGB' (which effectively switches off colour management - or at least displays colours as on a non colour managed display) and you should get your named values (E3F0C4) from external measuring software.

'View > Proof Setup > Monitor RGB'

then

'View > Proof Colours [tick]'

N.B. If you look at the internal colour measurement via the 'Info' panel, the value stays the same whatever display setting (Proof sRGB, etc.) you are using.

With Photoshop and other photo editing software one aim of colour management is to allow you to work on images that contain colour values that cannot be displayed on your monitor (or in a print) while preserving the relationships between colours.

Although this means that a specific 'colour' that you've input by value may not give you the numbers you expect when measured from an external application, it helps to remember that that specific 'colour' will display differently on other users' monitors and devices (and in print) and that without colour management the numeric colour value is only really meaningful in your specific context.

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