PSD > PNG for AS - Colours get washed out?

Mikdog · Post by **Mikdog** » Sun Jan 30, 2011 11:59 am

Hi,

Wonder if anybody knows how to do this? When I create a Photoshop document and draw in it, the colours are vibrant and saturated. Then when I export the images to 24-bit PNG, manually or with the 'export layers to AS' script, the colours get washed out. I've tried lots of fiddling around with the 'Save for Web' settings to no avail.

Anybody know how I'd keep my colours as they are in the PSD document? Besides boosting the saturation post-export from AS.

Thanks,

Mike

slowtiger · Post by **slowtiger** » Sun Jan 30, 2011 1:56 pm

Can't confirm this. 8bit RGB gets safely transferred to PNG.

I'd suggest you check your Photoshop colour settings (shift-cmd-K), although they should only affect conversions RGB - CMYK - but I've seen Photoshop acting weird on more than one occasion.

Mikdog · Post by **Mikdog** » Sun Jan 30, 2011 2:01 pm

Thanks for the reply slowtiger.

Here are my colour settings. Shed any light on the matter?

Mikdog · Post by **Mikdog** » Sun Jan 30, 2011 2:07 pm

Here's what I mean. I have the original PSD on the left, then the 24 bit PNG on the right.

Mikdog · Post by **Mikdog** » Sun Jan 30, 2011 2:10 pm

Aaand just to be sure, when I click on the MORE options for the colour prefs in PS, here are the options. Not quite sure what it all means. I know I've always got washed out PNGs from Photoshop. It'd be great to keep the colours I get from PS:

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slowtiger · Post by **slowtiger** » Sun Jan 30, 2011 3:33 pm

Two points:

1. I use the profile "Monitor RGB - VGA" - if you change to that, your PSDs will appear less vivid. So if you work in that, you'll use more saturated colours automatically.

2. I don't embed profiles, so in "Colour Management Policies" all is set to "none".
Additionally I've set my prefs to "ask" when opening images, my default is set to "don't use embedded profiles". This makes a huge difference, I guess that I have the right setting for PNG exchange between programs just by accident.

You should play around a bit and test, I've got different results from each different setting. For a start, just use your example image and open it with "no profile", "use embedded" and "convert to workspace" - make a copy from each one so you have them open all three, to compare.

funksmaname · Post by **funksmaname** » Sun Jan 30, 2011 8:35 pm

are you using 'save for web'? in there there is a 'convert to sRGB' checkbox - when i untick that, my brightness goes down (not saturation though?) so i keep it ticked and the colours look the same. I've never really noticed any differences when embedding profiles or not personally...