Color Issues! Photoshop to Web..

Help! I am new to Photoshop C4 and I simply can not get my color on the screen in photoshop to be the same as the output of my design. For example, I know that that hex color c7dcdc is a light bluish color, but in photoshop it shows up gray. When I save the image for the web it is the correct color, but often I choose my colors within photoshop (not vice versa) and expect them to come out the same when I save them to a PDF or for the web. I have tried changing color management etc and nothing seems to work. Can anyone help me? In my previous version of photoshop, it all just worked. I am sure there is a logical reason for this, but I can't figure it out! I'm losing it over here. Thanks!

The monitor needs to be color calibrated. If you don't own calibration software there are free software that can be found on the net.

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Illustrator and Windows Photo Viewer agree. They should, because they're both fully color managed. I assume Photoshop shows the same.
Picasa is not color managed. All bets are off there, it can display like anything under the sun, depending on what color space the file was created in, and how your monitor displays color.
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2 - is there an embedded document profile, and what is it?
3 - what is the monitor profile?
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FIrst off, more info: Platform, RAW type and means of Monitor calibration.
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(I really appreciate the "that's impossible, you must be doing something wrong" comments, by the way. Not "hmm, I don't know," but actually "what you've described in detail isn't happening; you're imagining things." Super helpful.)
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Most importantly, it seems this has been an issue for some time (Google "PNG Photoshop gamma"), and PNG is usually used for web, so why on Earth hasn't Adobe addressed this? Let's not forget that Photoshop is the industry-leading tool, and the Extended version costs $1000 by itself. The only options I've seen for saving as PNG in PS so far is sRGB conversion, bit depth, transparency, and interlacing. This whole gamma thing seems pretty unacceptable behavior, even by default.
I'm looking into pngcrush; does anyone have a simpler solution to strip the gamma information? Of course, if there's a way to do this in Photoshop itself, please please let me know.
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Hello,
I've seen a few posts about color issues, and I've tried following the advice posted, and I'm still having a problem. My photos appear fine in PS and in Lightroom (as well in in Mac's previewer) but when I upload them to the web or view the saved file on another computer, they appear severely desaturated with a blue tone.
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Well, I think what you need to do is get a better grasp on the fundimentals of color management-which is a bit beyond the scope of what the forums can offer you.
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I'm working on a website and I'm having issues with the color
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Photoshop is no that bad but Fireworks is really screwing the color
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here.
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chirp88 wrote:
> You obviously never tried to use them together very
much. Just yesterday I
> tried opening a layered CS3 PSD with groups and vector
masks and cloipping
> groups in Fireworks CS3 and it choked. All clipping
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never happened with
> ImageReady.
> I hope that Fireworks CS4 will open PSDs MUCH better.
> If Fireworks can't open Photoshop files correctly, then
there's no point in
> trying to use it for web graphics. I'm absolutely
positive that a much higher
> percentage of people use Photoshop for web graphic
development than Fireworks.
> It's like comparing Illustrator to Freehand users.
>
>
quote:
Originally posted by:
Newsgroup User
> > Fireworks was a Macromedia product and doesn't play
well with Photoshop.
>
> Baloney. There is no conflict between these two very
different products.
> Use the right tool for the job - web graphics = FW,
print graphics = PS.
>
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CS4 integration is much better. Can it be even better? Sure,
but only so
much can be done in each release.
FW CS4 supports PS vector objects, PS vector masks and Layer
Comps, as
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After the recent camera raw update to 8.7.1 I have noticed some pretty bad color shifts between camera raw and photoshop cs6. The colors in camera raw look very saturated and then when moving into photoshop the saturation shift is pretty dramatic. I never had these issues before the update. I have attached a screenshot illustrating the color issue. I am working on a very good monitor ( NEC PA 242W ) and it is color calibrated using NEC Spectraview calibration system. I have double checked my color setting in photoshop and camera raw to make sure I was viewing the same color space. I am just wondering if this is maybe a bug in the update and others are experiencing the same issues or if I am just missing something.
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Adobe Photoshop Version: 13.0.1 (13.0.1.3 20131024.r.34 2013/10/24:21:00:00) x64
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