Saving Images for Web

Hi,
Whenever I save images for the web they seem to loose the richness of their color. I've not noticed this until working on a particular project that involves resizing and preparing images of artwork for a website.
The images are in sRGB color profile and I am "saving for web and devices" with ICC checked and optimization at 70. Still, the images look a bit faded overall. Is there anything else that I can do to retain the color?
Thanks!

I am wondering why my advice was any worse than yours. I admit I mistakenly suggested Monitor RGB instead of Windows RGB but as far as I know sRGB is the default for most monitors. This would put them all pretty close. Am I missing something?
I would think that having someone set the images with icc profiles and then adjusting their own browser to correctly display such images would cause the exact same problem you say my solution does. It would give the image editor an impression of the image that nobody else is going to see. I don't know anyone that uses icc profiles for web work. In general I don't think you will find many people who have set their browsers to correctly view images that have these profiles. So it seems like someone that has will be thinking the images look great on their system but not on someone else's.
If someone may eventually repurpose these for print then worry about icc profiles for the printer. It seems like a huge waste of time for anything that is purely on screen.
I am not trying to battle with you over who is correct I just want to understand what your saying.

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Trying to save an image for web in Illustrator. It's a "browse" icon that we use for our product. We're recreating the icons to look more "flat" with the outline state as the inactive and the fill state as the active. Here's what I get when I export it for the web as a .png.
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Thanks for that information, unfortunately I'm not really any closer to solving the issue since I've already tried that. 1) by default, doesn't Aperture automatically embed the sRGB color profile? 2) if I set view>proofing mode to sRGB shouldn't what I see on screen match what a "dumb" application such as Firefox does when it ignores the embedded profile and display sRGB? I've tried going into the preferences>export settings and changed everything to sRGB IEC61966-2.1 but I see no difference in the final image between that and the default setting.
I guess my question is more specific to Aperture since I don't have this problem with other applications. For example, in photoshop if I do Export for Web it strips out any embedded profile and when I open that image in Firefox and Safari side-by-side they are exactly the same. But not so when I export an image from Aperture, when opened in Firefox it is desaturated and flat and of course in Safari it honors the embedded profile and looks fine.

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If I change my working color profile to sRGB the photos look like they should, but then instead all my original content will still look completely wrong in a browser or any other application.
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Big thanks for any help. It would be greatly appriciated. Let me know if posting any screenshots would help solve the problem.

try this (if you want to)
first highlight the OEM default monitor profile for your monitor in Displays> Color> Display Profile
reboot (and confirm the profile is still highlighted there)
then drag this PhotoDisc tagged sRGB image to your desktop and open it in Photoshop
USE THE EMBEDDED PROFILE (or Edit> Assign Profile: sRGB to be sure)
at that point the color should look correct (exactly as it looks in Safari here - if it doesn't look exactly correct here in Safari, it is because you have a bad monitor profile)
then in Photoshop: Image> Duplicate (to see two same files side by side for a comparison)
then on one image: Edit> Assign Profile (the monitor profile you have loaded in Displays)
be sure to set the profile in the bottom left (see below) so it displays (so we can see them in your screen shot)
THEN TAKE A SCREEN SHOT of the two windows side by side and post it here
(Command+Shift+4 and drag the area you want captured)
If I understand your advice right, you suggest that when I'm creating
stuff for the web, I should always, always use sRGB as my working
space? But then on export I should just not embed the profile, correct?
sRGB is the only color you should ever post on the Internet for web viewing
always CONVERT to sRGB before saving for the web (if it is not already in the sRGB color space) ie, leave that option checked in Save For Web Devices
i think most people don't embed the profile in web images, but this was hit on succinctly above post 13:
There is no true color management on the web. As different browsers offer different types of CM support, the
best that you can do as a designer is to convert to sRGB (if not
already) and save color-critical images with the embedded sRGB profile.
That's the general rule.

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