screen resolution?

[twistedclocks]

i have a feeling it might be the desktop because the computer was quite old and we reacently was given a new 'modern' screen to make it appear more presentable haha ..so maybe something went wrong there humm.

okay thankyou i will check the links out and hopefully solve my problem

[twistedclocks]

i have a new issue ive just noticed guys

when i have a photo in photoshop the colors (possibly just for this photo) seem warmed/more saturated but then when the photos uploaded to the internet (deviantart for example) its a bit colder and seems a tad unsaturated..

how is this possible? i mean first i thought my resolution was out of wack but how can it change on the same computer!

[teaking]

Its probably colour profiles the internet is primarily an sRGB world, there are of course colour aware browsers that will read images colour profiles and display them more accurately. The difference you are probably seeing is the wider gamut that photoshops aRGB colour profile produces.

How ever those using IE will see it represented as a standard sRGB colour profile image so if displaying on the web it is best to convert it to sRGB.

Just to bore you lol the reason you would do this is because you cant account for people viewing your images in a colour aware browser. You cant account for them having calibrated monitors and also most monitors will only display colours from the standard sRGB pallet unless there designed specifically to display a wider colour gamut and that comes at a price. So in reality the colours you are seeing are sRGB representations of aRGB your not really getting a wider colour gamut. Your limitation is the colours the monitor displays.

[twistedclocks]

is there anything i can do? change photoshop setting/screen settings? it makes it very difficult to alter photos when photoshop, your computer and the internet all show it differently

[ecate78]

Hello!

I am just a beginner in Photoshop, but I think the main problem you are pointing at is the correct calibration of the monitor. To be sure you have a correctly calibrated monitor you may use a specific device (sorry I don't know the name in english) that you put directly on your monitor like this (for the admins I choose this video because it show an exemple of what I am talking about, it is in no way the only possibility). The device will analyse the colour rendering of your monitor and create it's colour profile also called ICC profile. After it will use this profile to help recalibrate (if necessary) your monitor so you know that you are visualing correctly your photos files. Once you know that you are seeing your files correctly you may think of sharing them with other on the internet. If you have Photoshop you can use the option edit for the web that will automatically translate the color information of your photos in a way that will be reproduced correctly by the majority of the internet navigators and that will be correctly reproduced on every kind of monitor. Finally you can have an approximate calibration of your screen by other means like this pro explain here.

Also you have to keep in mind that minor differencies in the display of the colors are normal between monitor of different manufacturer and even among monitor of the same brand. This little differencies cannot be erased.

Hope it helps a bit. I told you about de web module of photoshop because it's easiest way to solve this problem kind of problem, but you can control everything "manually" managing the different ICC profiles.

Good luck!

P.S. I think that using the web module you automatically translate the color information of your photos in the internet color protocol. If you don't do it the different monitors will reproduce it the way they "understand" the information you have given them, which can lead to different results. While using the internet color codification will force the monitor to the same result,