need some photoshop help!

[exodus454]

Hey all, got a question that i cant find the answer for. i've searched high and low, near and far. nothing.

ok. so when i download the RAW files off my 300D, import them into photoshop I usually assign them to the ProPhoto ICC profile to give better color depth. image always displays just fine in PS CS2, but whenever I try and view the picture ANYWHERE else, you can tell it reverted back to a different ICC profile (colors dont look nearly as vibrant).

I usually do all my work in 16bit, then after I resize the final image i convert down to 8bit and save as a JPEG on the highest quality available.

Anyone know whats going on? I suspect its got something to do with the JPEG format, maybe if I saved it as a TIFF it wouldnt happen anymore? this is damn annoying, because the pictures always look fantastic in PS, but anywhere else they look.. dull.

what could be the culprit?

thanks!

 

[imported_DarkPenguin]

It will happen with tiff, too. Most applications do not care about the colorspace tag. They just display your images in sRGB. So remember to convert the image to sRGB before you save it as a jpeg. Right now the image is in the Prophoto colorspace but 99% of the applications out there will just display it in the sRGB colorspace.

I've found if you do not print most of your images it really isn't worth the trouble to run in a colorspace outside sRGB.

 

[exodus454]

alrighty, that makes sense. odd thing is, i find that even the printer wont go with anything other than sRGB either, which doesnt make sense seeing as its a photosmart printer.

oh well, maybe its time to go do some more research.. thanks for the help!

 

[imported_DarkPenguin]

Turn off color management in your printer. Have photoshop handle that. I'm not sure how HP works. With epson they give you profiles for epson paper. So you turn off printer color mangement and tell photoshop to handle it. Then you give ps the profile for your printer/paper combination and it does the magic.

Either www.luminous-landscape.com or www.outbackphoto.com should be of help. Or you can look at the dry creek photo (or something like that) site for some of their information.

 

[exodus454]

great, thanks!@