It's been ages, since I've post processed a photo, and I've forgotten a simple thing, which I vaguely recall had an easy solution. I almost feel stupid asking this.
Photoshop CS3, from raw, - nice green golfcourse shot. Working in my default Adobe RGB, so that I can print later. Then File - Save As - jpeg, with "ICC Profile: Adobe RGB 1998" checked. Save as a copy, with jpeg options on max quality, and "baseline standard" checked.
But when I open the saved jpeg, it's not a vivid and verdant green, but a dull grey brown.
Why does the saved version show this distinct colour shift? What am I doing wrong? Please help!
I've just tried that.....not much better at all. Still a very dull green in saved jpeg, compared to the *psd, in sRGB, or Adobe RGB. And this on a newly calibrated monitor.
What can be wrong? What am I doing, that's giving me this colour shift on saving?
Ouch. There was me thinking I'd solved the problem (which I myself only figured out this morning). I hope there's somebody with greater expertise to help you out with this one.
Waaaaa, its just not working. All of my saved jpegs are a horrible muted dull washed out version of the *psd in photoshop.
I've just read thru EddyG's tutorial again, on preparing images for DPC challenges, and I can't find the problem.
Wonderbread has the correct answer. I always check proof colors (Monitor RGB) before starting on a picture. Being a lover of green, it's always a huge disappointment when I click that button. Greens particularly suffer on the changeover. You can somewhat recover the greens by doing a hue/sat layer with a master hue shift of +5 to +15. It does not work on every picture though.
Hmmm. Thanks so much, as always, Wonderbread, Jason, et al.
Yes, when I look at my vivid colours on 'Proof colours-Monitor RGB', its the same muted desaturated picture I have after saving the jpeg.
Does that mean that I should begin and end the whole post-processing sequence with this proof colours/monitor rgb checked all the time, to avoid the disappointing desat when I save?
Hmmm. Thanks so much, as always, Wonderbread, Jason, et al.
Yes, when I look at my vivid colours on 'Proof colours-Monitor RGB', its the same muted desaturated picture I have after saving the jpeg.
Does that mean that I should begin and end the whole post-processing sequence with this proof colours/monitor rgb checked all the time, to avoid the disappointing desat when I save?
Yes, but also you can push the saturations and colors further because you are starting muted. If you unclick the "proof colors" button you might see a terribly oversaturated ugly shot. In other words, if you are going for a DPC edit, you need to start with the proof colors on so you know where you will wind up.
Aha. That makes sense to me, thanks.
And if my final intention, in the post-processing, is to print, rather than to do a DPC edit, then should my proof setup be "Working CMYK", rather than Monitor RGB?
