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[modiophile]

Ok, so I have my working space in Photoshop set to Adobe RGB 1998.  I am slicing an image up so that I may build a website from, when I notice that some colors shift dramatically brighter once I choose Save For Web & Devices!  I thought that since the colors I used to build the image were pulled from Pantone Process Uncoated that maybe that was the problem, so I decided to use ONLY colors from the Web swatch library...

Needless to say, the colors are still shifting brighter even though I am using "Web" colors and working within an RGB profile!  Any help?  Thanks.

[Rogue]

I use the standard RGB settings (America general purpose 2) and i've never had a problem with it

are you using an 8 it RGB channel, if not that may cause some problems when exporting for html.

and what extension are you using to save them (gif  png / jpg)?

[IBBoard]

Does "web safe" really matter these days? AFAIK they're a relic of the olden days of the Internet when you couldn't guarantee that everyone was running 24/32-bit monitors. These days you're unlikely to see anything else (possibly 16-bit, but that won't dither too much).

Wikipedia on 'web safe colours'.

[modiophile]

Rogue, on 12 February 2010 - 10:19 AM, said:

I use the standard RGB settings (America general purpose 2) and i've never had a problem with it

are you using an 8 it RGB channel, if not that may cause some problems when exporting for html.

and what extension are you using to save them (gif  png / jpg)?

I'm saving them as jpegs.  And the palette I'm using is the same one as shown on that Wiki.

[modiophile]

I found out why the colors were shifting!  

Next to the Preset option, there's a sneaky little arrow...click it and uncheck "Convert to sRGB." (Note: From what I can tell, this is only the default setting in CS3)
http://www.viget.com...eb-color-shift/

Edited by copaesthetic, 24 February 2010 - 05:18 PM.