Saving - Loss of colour

Hi everybody
I've created an image and I've saved it; the problem is that the saved photo is very dark. I tried with a lot of different formats but it's still dark...I don't know if the problem is that the photo is mostly blue and dark in the background and so the program changes anything..but I can't understand how to save it with right colours (also tried with maximum quality and resolution).
I'd insert the link of the project but it's 100mb

Tried with Calibrize but I din't solve the problem (interesting program however )
Noel, here the screens:
I clicked on "Save as", then:
(in the screen you can see the lighter image :O)
I've now noticed one thing, also happening with paint: if I save the photo with something with light color, for example as the screenshot here, the image is the way it should be; if I cut the light parts and save only the blue image, it becomes dark!!!!!!

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