This is a screen cap of a photoshop image and the same image viewed with firefox. Tis also happens with internet explorer. Is there away to save a file so it retains the colour profile ( guess that 's what it is ) so the two images look the same? Or is there a totally different reason...
I know images look different on everyones screens but i'd like to retain as much as much of the original look as i can.

The images look the same to me?

Any differences would be down to the 2 bits of software using different decompression & rendering engines.

Firefox (particularly web formats like jpeg) is optimised for speed, not "true colour" or high resolution (think many little pictures to make up a single page).
There are also standard "web colours" used by browsers where anything out of this colour band could be dropped (Its far fetched, but I would guess they apply it to the image rendering to optimise performance).

Photoshop also has its own decompression and rendering engine, however this one is designed for high resolution true colour images even in lossy (read shitty) formats like jpeg. Photoshop also applies its own custom filters/things to the image after the raw data has been loaded to try and improve the quality for use in the "lossless" format you work in on screen.

To get around the problem...
Try using a lossless format.. like png or bmp.
bmp files are just chunks of data, so there would be no decompression to screw with the colour but it would still be subject to rendering optimisations in browsers - but heavyweight formats like bmp tend to be less optimised due to the fact they are not used in pages.

Its also worth noting that I didn't research anything here... so you may wish to check these things out

The only person who i know that could maybe give you a better (fact based?) reply is shadow

Whos that sexy bint in the pic?? shes hot

[KM]Pugless wrote:
Whos that sexy bint in the pic?? shes hot

That's his gran.

He made her a famous internet icon!

tbh i can see the difference. i used to get that prob when i used PS. its not much but when u put them together like that u notice. i save everything using .png unless its something shitty


*reminds me to get back into photoshopping*

Well i wanted to test all those avenues so i saved files as other formats... No difference.. appart from bmp which won't be viewed with a web brower. It just asks if i want to download it. I created another image (gradient) to see it it was just the gran image. I used a gradient because it covers most of the colours if not all the ones i could ever use..



as you can see... or i hope you can, the web reproduction an photoshop original are identical

here is another screenshot of the gran picture



Hopefully this shows the difference better.

maybe it's a singular image colour profile??

Ahhh i see the difference now!
The firefox window is less sharp and a bit darker o_O;
Not sure why tho =/

Pretty sure it's to do with windows and the web colour palette... Try looking at the image in PS with different colour palettes (RGB, CMYK etc.)

I cheched it against cmyk rgb lab colour and there was no visable change in the picture colour

http://www.mywebsite.force9.co.uk/web-colors/color-guide.htm

This may explain a little... As I thought, it's to do with web colour palettes.

How come it hasn't happened with any of the other hundreds of images i have uploaded of viewed with IE or firefox?

Surely not all of those would be 'Websafe' ?

Fixed. I disgarded any colour profiles by copying opening photoshop, copying the image, pasting it in a new document and saving. Typical