Color problems in photograph after SAVE AS jpeg?

[EugeneM]

I had headshots done of myself recently and I was doing my own retouching. I'm satisfied with the image and went to SAVE AS jpeg and the colors in the jpeg looks way off. The red are more red.

So, I figure, save as Tiff. I did with jpg as compression. It just didn't look right. I'm also worried about printing. The images that were imported in to photoshop did not have color issues.

well, here are a side by side comparison of what I am talking about:

Notice how the colors on the right are more saturated? That's my concern.

Thanks!

[Steve]

When you look at the new JPG in a viewer or with explorer the saturation looks wrong, is that correct?
Open this JPG in PS, does it look OK in PS?

If so I have the same problem and unfortunately no answer.
It doesn't seem to be every image either.

Let's figure this out, I thought it was just me.
Steve

[tricky500]

In photoshop, you will want to go into Edit > Color Preferences > set your default to North American Pre Press 2. And leave everything checked. What I'm assuming happened is that the image in question was in a profiled space, and upon opening your current settings probably overwrote the color space and converted it into Swop or something else. Now when you open an image it will ask you if you would like to keep the embedded profile or do whatever, small hassle but you will at least be aware of what your color settings are doing to the image..

[tricky500]

You will want to make sure you use the embedded profile..

[Gaussian]

Steve and EugeneM what do your color settings look like?

[Steve]

My Color Settings were custom.
Exactly the same as North American Prepress 2 but with the “Ask” check boxes at the bottom unchecked.
I changed the settings to North American Prepress 2 but that’s not where “My” problem seems to be, I don't know if this is the exact problem EugeneM is having

The settings are now set to North American Prepress 2, check the attached photo.
I did a quick web search for something that was over saturated and opened it in the ACDSee viewer on the left and PS on the right and did a screen dump.

You should be able to see that the image on the left is more saturated than the image in PS, on the right.

If I open the original JPG in Internet Explorer or any other viewer it looks the same as the image on the left, more saturated than when I view it in PS.

[tricky500]

In ACD go to file properties and see if it's reading the embedded profile. Im sure your jpeg viewer has Color Management properties as well. Make sure they are not trashing your color profile.. Check that the embedded profile in PS is same as ACD.. At any rate, I would expect photoshop to be managing the color properly.

[Steve]

ACDSee is "reporting" the embedded profile is sRGB and I'm not aware of anyway to ignore or change it from doing that.

The issue isn’t specific to ACDSee.
I can open a JPG in Quicktime Viewer, Media Player, Paint., Internet Explorer, etc., etc., and it always looks the same.

When I open it in PS it’s less saturated.
If I save this image to a new file name with no editing, the new image is just as saturated as the original in any of the above viewers.

This is true in CS3, CS5, and Elements 7.

So the issue here is, is this and Adobe PS (all versions) issue or a Windows issue.

[tricky500]

The problem is not with Adobe PS. The problem is color managing from platform to platform. Adobe PS is a properly color managed program. The problem lies within everything else NOT being color managed, not being color managed properly, or user error.

Color difference between sRGB images in Photoshop and Windows P and F Viewer - Photo.net Digital Darkroom Forum

If you really want to try and understand better read all the comments. It will probably still leave you confused but understand this is not something clear cut and easy to solve even with proper color managing equipment.

[Steve]

Thanks for the link tricky500.

I read it all and understood enough to realize there isn't a real solution.
PS uses the embedded profile and MS apps don't.
For it to look the same in PS as a MS viewer like IE, Fax viewer, etc. is to discard the embedded profile in PS.

So the answer is, there is no answer.