Colors look paler in preview

For a group of png pictures, when I view them by double-clicking or pressing space in preview, the pictures look much paler than they should be. And if I resize them, colors go right while resizing, but turn pale again afterwards. The only thing works is to go adjust colors under 'tools' and click 'auto levels'. But in this way I'll need to do it for every single one of them. This doesn't happen to other pictures or to all png, is it a problem of my mac or the files themselves? And anybody has any idea how I can fix it? Not a big issue but makes me feel uncomfortable.. Many thanks
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What is your Premiere Monitor Playback Res set at?
What is the Preview Setting?
Jims advice is useless in this instance. He expects you to do an output file everytime you make a tweak in Titler or Sequence just to see what you might abitrarily be getting.

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I created some pdf format files in photoshop, and they look clear when you view them in programs like colorsync utility etc... So I merged the multiple pages I created that were pdf files with a program that merges them into different pages. So when I view them, they look dull for some reason, and the color looks faded, but when I view it in colorsync, it looks vibrant and crisp. How can I make the pdf view correct in "preview".
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If you have multiple (crispy ) PDFs that you would like to merge, open them all in Preview.app.
Open the side bar. Mark multiple pages. Copy them.
Switch to the PDF you'd like to add the pages to. Insert them (cmd-v). With single pages you can also use drag and drop.
don't forget to save the changed PDF in the end.
I'm not sure if this fixes your problem. If not, maybe you could post some of the pdfs in question on the web, so I could look at the problem. I'd be interested.
--greg

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, but when I copied them to iphone 6,
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