Photoshop colour tragedy

[Weddings by wayne]

Hi everyone,
Sorry for the mispelling of Tragedy,
Can someone tell me the problem i may have with CS4.. I shoot in raw then open and adjust in Bridge then finish off the image in photoshop.. It looks great. then when i open the same finished image in Internet explorer it has lost at least half of its colour and appears washed out.... Today i opened a file in photoshop and created a print with it... And to my surprise the print was lacking about half the colour that was on my screen... i had to saturate the heck out of it to make it print properly...

Really frustrating me and has beern for many months,.. Please dont ask me to calibrate my screens as they are regularly...
Why is PS doing this to my editing.... how do i set the colours straight....

Regards
Wayne Robertson

[zona5101]

there's 2 things going on ...it's not uncommon for other picture viewers to render the image differently than PS. second the printer also needs to be aligned with PS. You will probably need to install the printer and specfic paper profiles.

(there. see, i didn't tell you to calibrate your monitor)

[dakwegmo]

What color space are you working in? Most version of Internet Explorer are not color space aware so if you save an image with an embedded Adobe RGB color profile, it will look atrocious in IE. It's possible, depending on the color profile you're using, that the printer doesn't recognize it either and is just doing a best guess to match the color space to sRGB.

[SusanH1970]

Yep - make sure you're saving it in sRGB, not Adobe RGB.

Are you printing from a home printer or a lab? If at home, then your printer may need to be calibrated.