Problem with retaining color brillance

[Diane Margetts]

I have had an ongoing problem with colors losing their original saturation and vibrance. Most recently, the photos I posted for the January assignment do not have the luster and vibrance of the photos in my CS4 files.

I really noticed this for the Doodle Kisses Calendar submissions--all of my photos that I submitted had a very unattractive greenish cast. --I always shoot in RAW and process in CS4 Camera RAW, and then, often but not always, in Photoshop. To save, I flatten the image (if processed in Photoshop), and change the mode to 8 bit and then save in JPG. Any ideas of what I am eith not doing or doing wrong?

[Linda and "Toby"]

I found a good blog on how to make your photos look the same on the web as on your monitor: http://blog.boxedart.com/digital-photos/why-your-photo-looks-differ...

As for why the prints came out with a greenish cast, it may have to do with your color management settings. sRGB for example is good for viewing colors on the web, but not ideal for producing high quality print. In CS4 if you go to EDIT... CONVERT TO PROFILE and select ADOBE RGB (1998) you will probably see better print results. (Someone else on this forum may have another suggestion/explanation for why this happened and how to avoid it in the future.)

[Diane Margetts]

Thanks but I'm not talking about printing. It's the photos I save to JPG. The pics that I have im my CS4 file (on line) are a more vivid, lusrterous color that the pics I posted to the Janurary assignment thread . . . I get the printing stuff--it's about the color management of the printer and that's not a problem.

[Nancie & Gracie Doodle]

Both my Nikon D50 and D5000 cameras have a color setting where I can chose Adobe which I do since I do everything in Photoshop 7.0. I have always fought with the monito an printer color being the same. It is an ongoing battle. There are a ton of settings in your printers and only just now have I finally hit upon a good one for my Epson. My HP and Canon photo printers are still not perfect. My Lexmark has great prints. Also, a lot of the printers you have the choice of the printer color correcting or printing from the color correcting you did in your editing program. You want to turn off the "let the printer pick the color or whatever it may say". Though I don't think that is what you are asking. You want to know why your photos are not up to par?? You might want to try shooting NOT in Raw and see if that makes a difference.

[Linda and "Toby"]

Hmmmm... I take all my pix in RAW, so that wouldn't have anything to do with it, nor should flattening it and saving it as a Jpeg. It must be something else.... but I'm not quite sure what it is.

[Sue]

Well, I think it's because you are in California where everything is green, LOL Just like my pics all have this white cast to them. (snow). LOL
I do bump up the in camera saturation for my pics, because I love color.

[Diane Margetts]

We LOVE snow!!! MAybe cause we only "visit" it!!!! We are going to the lake house on Sat and Dakota is hoping for tons of snow!!! Enjoy it--it will be gone soon . . . !!