help with color management please!

[acanalito]

Hi, I'm andrea. I'm trying to design my artist website. I'm having one major issue at the moment, I don't know if it's reconcilable.

i have the images the way i want them in photoshop, but when i try to import them into d-weaver, the colors become terrible. I've got it on good quality and they look in focus, but it's like d.w. totally downgrades the image, mostly desaturates the colors. Any advice??? I would REALLY appreciate it

[moni]

Hey andrea, not sure why no one has answered this already.
Not knowing enough I'm going to have to guess and take a shot in the dark here.

First off, Dream Weaver messes up image quality when you use it to resize images, it's a bad habit it has so remember to check the HTML dimensions are exactly the same as the actual image dimensions, also make sure your image is a PNG file, if it's a JPEG it'll most likely have to be a huge file for the colors to appear perfect.

If that's not it then one other thing I can think of is the resolution you're exporting at is most likely low. When you are done slicing you image/site then save it for web and devices, making sure that if you select JPEG the optimized option is checked and quality set high. I would venture off and say it's safe to set it at 80-90% but then again that depends on the file size you'll end up with. If that's not a problem then 80-90% should do the trick.

[chicgeek]

Moved from the Blogging forum (?) to graphic design

[gammaRascal]

I'm gona guess that the color managment is the problem, like your title says. In photoshop, it will be displayed using the color settings you have set for photosohop or if you're color managing the document, it will be set for that, say its AdobeRGB. However in most other programs, they default to your monitor profile which is usually whatever the driver sets it as.

If you want consistency between photoshop and other programs you'll have to set your monitor color profile to be the same as what photoshop uses or vice versa.