Color Changes when saving psd to jpg

Some of my psd when saved to jpg take on a distinctly bluish cast. Has anyone seen this? What is the cause? How can it be defeated?

When You save a jpg with profile embedded does the appearance still change?
Photoshop uses the Color Settings’ Working Space for displaying files that are not Color Managed, therefore one should embed the profile – unless space considerations (especially for internet-use) speak against it, in which case one should usually convert the image to srgb anyway.

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    Thanks for the help twenty one and Noel but I think I need to be a little bit more clear on what it is I would like to accomplish. Basically I have a photo that displays two different ways: normal saturation and oversaturated. I would like it to always display at normal saturation, no matter what computer or what program it's being viewed with. Currently the only programs I've found that always display it correctly are Windows Paint and Internet explorer, neither of which are color managed. Is there any way to accomplish this or do I just have to accept the fact that it will always look different depending on what it's being viewed with?
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    Under Color Settings, it shows the RGB working space as sRGB IEC61966-2.1. However the info panel shows the PSD as being untagged RGB. The image mode is RGB color.
    I've messed around with assigning new color profiles and nothing works. The only thing that makes photo look normal again is turning on proof and setting it to Monitor RGB.
    I tried saving two different jpeg files, one where I checked ICC Profile sRGB IEC61966-2.1 in the save as dialogue box and one where I did not. Upon opening both files in photoshop, the file that had the sRGB box checked shows up as being sRGB in the info panel and the file that did not have the box checked shows up as untagged RGB in the info panel, as one would expect.
    Both the untagged RGB and the sRGB show up the way I want them to in Windows Paint and Internet Explorer (normal saturation), neither of which are color managed programs.
    Using Firefox (color managed), the untagged RGB shows up correctly and the sRGB file is oversaturated.
    Using photoshop and Windows Photo Viewer (color managed), both the tagged and the untagged photos are oversaturated.
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    always CONVERT to sRGB (if not already there) when saving for the web and unmanages apps
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    Hello, y'all. I finally got these images I'm working on to look right and they are not saving to jpeg correctly. It's very strange because at first only one of them would look right after being saved, and then I got two of them to save right, and now I have just two more before I can be done already and I just can't figure out what to do. They are flattened psd files. They are in the colorspace srgb. They are black and white. They basically look like they are not saving with the last few changes I made in photoshop. While I have them open in photoshop and save them as jpegs, they appear to be identical to the psd file. But when I go to bridge they look incorrect. Same problem as I had before with the other two files when viewing in bridge. But these last two....argh. Can anyone troubleshoot this for me? In the example screenshot, you can see the image on the left is the jpeg, and although it looks fine, it is not consistent with the psd on the right.

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  • Color Change when saving from CS4

    I have an image from which I wish to make a selection and save as a .png or .gif file on transparent background to use in a collage.  When I re-save the image from CS4, the color is changed quite drastically (face from color to ash!).  The image was shot with a P&S as .jpg but opens in PS first in the cameraRaw dialogue for unknown reasons:
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    It seems that you apply the ProPhoto colorspace via ACR.
    So the result can have two reasons: either the JPEG was saved untagged (converted to ProPhoto but without embedded colorspace) or it was tagged and saved with an embedded profile, but the other applications are non- or wrong colormanaged. Both will result in a desaturated image like it shows up to the right:
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    >It seems like when we first starting do this several yrs ago we didnt have this problem.
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