Color in flash...?

I'm using Photoshop 7 and Flash CS3. I created a graphic in
PS, then imported it into Flash... and the color is lighter. I
publish the SWF and load it in Safari... and the color is still the
lighter shade.
What's happening... and how do I keep the colors from
changing? I'm on OS X 10.4.
Thanks :)

Short version:
You haven't calibrated your display to have a tone
reproduction curve defined by gamma 2.2 (essentially same as sRGB).
By default this is the assumed color behavior in Photoshop. By the
way you cannot turn color management off in Photoshop. You can
change the color settings file to something that says "off" but it
still really isn't off. Some profile is always assumed as the
source profile. And it really should be sRGB for most situations,
but in particular for web design.
Your display, however, by default, on OS X does not have this
behavior. It's lighter because its default tone reproduction curve
is defined by gamma 1.8. So what you need to do is calibrate the
display for gamma 2.2 and then things will be much better, although
still not dead nuts on because Flash isn't color managed while
Photoshop is.
With some futzing around, you could probably get this done
using Default Calibrator found in System
Preferences>Displays>Color tab>Calibrate. Use the expert
mode, and follow all directions. Near the end, set target gamma to
2.2 and target white point to either "native white point" or D65
(honestly, whichever one looks better/more neutral).
Long version:
a.) Displays are increasingly not described by sRGB like in
the CRT days.
b.) By default, Adobe applications assume sRGB, and use a
display profile to compensate for the difference between sRGB and
the display's actual color capability. This is a good thing.
c.) The web browser and in particular Flash, do not at all
compensate for the difference between sRGB and the display.
The result is RGB numbers in Flash go directly to the
display, which means everyone is seeing web and Flash colors
differently (from each other), and then also they see colors
differently between web browser and Adobe application. The apparent
mismatch becomes more pronounced the more the display being used
deviates from sRGB.
The necessary solution is that Flash needs to become color
managed, which currently it is not. This is going to turn into a
big issue very soon because Firefox 3 is slated to become fully
color managed, which means all images and CSS content are going to
be assumed to be sRGB and display compensation will occur for that
content. If Flash continues to not color manage, there will
instantly be a disconnect between Flash and other content in
Firefox 3 on both platforms.

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