Muse color incorrect

I'm trying to bring in a design from Photoshop to Muse, and it's rendering the colors incorrectly. For example, I have a very vibrant red, rasterized shape that Muse is rendering as a duller pink. I couldn't find any answers on why this is happening or how to fix it. Any tips? Thanks!

I tried it now with another image.
This is my original:
This is the same image after HTML-output by Muse:
And this is a screenshot. Left side Original in Photoshop, right side placed in Muse:
The colors of picture 1 and 2 are absolutely (visual and measured) identical
The colors of the screenshots differ a little bit (measured, but not visually, because a screenshot uses the monitor profile and not sRGB.
In my constellation, colors are absolutely ok.

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Is there a way to control how Muse handles color?
When using websafe background colors in Muse, the color renders drastically diffrent when exported and displayed in Safari and Chrome.
In addition my photographs are way too saturated when exported from Muse and displayed in those browsers. The original files display properly when used in any other way or in any other program, and they have sRGB profiles attached.
If there isn't a dialog for configuring the way Muse handles color management, it's extremely important that one is created or photographers are not going to be able to get accurate color.

That advice doesn't help with this issue. I don't need to use a color checker to verify that the colors are different. It's very obvious. I'm having the same issue this guy was having that was never addressed:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1250202
I actually think I figured it out. The problem is that Muse is color managing all of the colors displayed when working in the program, basically it's applying a profile, probably sRGB, to everything you see in Muse. That's a problem, because once the hex color code goes to the browser and tells it render a color like websafe color 0066cc, for example, the browser will render that color without applying a profile to it.
The color shift amount will depend on the color, and websafe colors will shift less, but either way Muse shouldn't being color managing any color that the browser will render from hex code.
You can test this by taking a websafe hex code, lets use 0066cc, fill a small square with it in Photoshop, saving it as a Jpeg with an sRGB profile embedded, then discard the profile by going to:
PS/Edit/Assign Profile/Don't Color Manage This Document
Save a second Jpeg copy of that same color square without the profile.
Make three pages in Muse, one page with 0066cc entered as the BG fill in Muse; one with with the backgoung set to a tiled BG image in Muse using the the 0066cc square Jpeg with the embedded sRGB profile as the bg image; then the third page should be configured like the last with the 0066cc square Jpeg that's untagged without the profile, set it as the tiled bg image.
When you compare the 3 pages in a browser to the 3 page displays in Muse you'll notice that the only page that matches the Muse color is page 2 with the tiled bg image set to the 0066cc filled square Jpeg that has the sRGB profile embedded.
The reason why is that the browser is reading the embedded sRGB profile from the tiled BG image Jpeg and so it's color managing the browser fill, since it's a Jpeg not a hex code, Muse matches that one and on all three pages displayed in Muse, because it's color managing everything no matter what, regardless if there's a profle associated with that color or not.
This is just one color problem with Muse, I found another pretty bad one that I'm going to save for later...

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The colors that I specify in Muse shift when published to a live server. How can this be resolved?

My statement that what you encountered is unrelated to the other issues discussed here was simply a statement of fact for you, the others on this thread and those that read it in the future. It wasn't intended as a complaint. My apologies if it came across that way.
I thought Muse optimized all images.
For the most part, it does. In your case the original image contains transparency so it cannot be represented as a JPEG. It's already optimized as a semi-transparent PNG. Once you flatten the background color into the image so the end result is opaque, then that image can be represented in JPEG format. If the original image had been opaque PNG, by default Muse would have converted it to JPEG (assuming the end result made for a smaller file).
So there will be issues using any kind of fill transparency?
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I process a Raw file using Lightroom 2. I export a Jpeg and it looks perfect when I open it in Preview, matching the Lightroom, when viewed on the second monitor screen. But, when I open that file in Photoshop it looks about 15% desaturated, when viewed on the same 2nd monitor.
The really wierd kicker is that as I drag the photo from the Macbook screen to the second monitor screen, while in photoshop, it looks fine. It only desaturates as I ungrab it (or unclick it if you prefer). I am speculating that photoshop is interpreting the monitor profile incorrectly or something..... any help out there?

So, I figured out a work around with the help of my friend. He stated that Photoshop can only work with one monitor profile. So I moved the arrangement of my displays so that the external display is the main one. Now PHotoshop looks just like Lightroom.
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Have you tried colour correcting your images properly through Photoshop to RGB? Muse doesn't do fabulous things with imported images if it has to 'handle' a lot of changes ( colour profiles, ppi, resizing etc ) for you.
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Testing with a rainbow gradient I can see that relative to my main monitor the purple gets darker and the blue gets stronger; almost turning into a solid bar rather than a gradient. The green also gets slightly lighter.
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Hmmm I've been working in sRGB IEC61966-2.1 Always have been, never really changed it.
Appearantly there is an option called Cintiq12wx.icc which seems to work better. (The blue is still a bit strong but it ain't no solid bar any longer)
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SFW (CS3) isn't functioning correctly, or perhaps I'm missing a pref or configuration.
When I go to SFW, the image in the SFW window no matter what setting or level (even 100%) and resulting file is lighter, as in washed out, from it's PSD parent.
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Thanks Ann. Here's what I have:
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The Cinema is set to Apple's stock "Apple Cinema Display" profile and HP doesn't support us with a Mac calibrator, but I did the best I could with Apple's - in Prefs > Display.
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