Why the difference in windows picture viewer and photoshop

ronald_durst · 08-18-2008, 09:28 PM

I did some editing on some pix using photoshop. I then went back and looked at them on windows fax and picture viewer. I noticed a difference in color. So i put the 2 side by side on the same monitor and i can see a big difference between the 2. The two being windows picture viewer and photoshop. Anyone got some advice on this? Thanks

pw-pix · 08-18-2008, 10:24 PM

Photoshop is colour managed, it will display images using the embedded colour space in the file.
Web browsers and many other image viewers/editors are notcolour managed and will display using the default sRGB colour space.
To get the images to look correct in non colour managed applications, make sure you save the images in sRGB and embed that profile in the image file.

graphicgr8s · 08-30-2008, 09:52 PM

Web/Image viewers have a more limited color gamut than what PS has. If your pictures are only going to the web just use PS's "save for web" option.

pw-pix · 08-30-2008, 10:10 PM

Originally Posted by graphicgr8s

Web/Image viewers have a more limited color gamut than what PS has. If your pictures are only going to the web just use PS's "save for web" option.

That won't help unless the image is in sRGB and has the profile embedded.