Alex Harries's diary

(This is a fully-geeky entry, I'm afraid...) 

A couple of months back, I spotted that the previews of the website graphics I was working on in Photoshop were very washed out. I wasted the best part of a day trying to figure out why, and eventually sorted it after an afternoon of exercising unusually high levels of self-control to resist the urge to throw my mouse/laptop/desk lamp/chair across the room.

Wonderful thing that upgrades are, today I realised that Photoshop was back to its old tricks again and was saving graphics which looked like they'd been sun-bleached. For my own future reference, here's what I had to do to fix this problem:

1. Go to 'edit' > 'color settings' and set it up like this:
   
   
   Note the RGB working space is set to "Color LCD Calibrated" - it should be set to whatever your monitor is calibrated to, it seems.
2. Whenever you create a new document in Photoshop, make sure the "Color profile" option (under 'advanced', in the 'new document' dialogue) is set to the same monitor profile you set in step 1.
3. Also make sure your documents are set with the right proofing options, by checking 'view' > 'proof setup' is set to 'monitor RGB', and 'view' > 'proof colors' is ticked.
   
4. Finally, in 'save to web', make sure 'convert to sRGB' is un-ticked (click the right-arrow to the right of 'preset' options).

 Hopefully, next time this happens - 'cos it's bound to happen - this should work better than throwing the laptop out of the window....... ;o)

/al - geek geek geek geek geek geek, etc