Something Stange going on with PS CS2

Dara Robinson

Ok, unless I am going crazy there is someting odd going on with CS2.

so screenie 1 is what I see in CS2.
Screenie 2 is what I see in mspaint.

And just to explain. I printed screen a colour, put it into mspaint. saved it and took it over to cs2 so I could get the html code for that colour but whats bugging me is that the 2 colours look differant. Now when u take the html colour from cs2 and place it into a webpage it looks like the mspaint one.

Very confused atm

sineadw

I have no idea why they're showing different (something to do with Adobe Gamma maybe? Or the fact that one is BMP and the other is JPG?) I'm just wondering why the MSPaint bit in the first place. You can screen dump directly into CS - print screen and then new file in photoshop and it automatically creates a file from the clipboard.

Or maybe I'm missing something..

digitalage

whats your work space set at? Color gamut is wider on some working spaces. Photoshop is color managed, which means it reads the color space used in the image and converts data that is sent to the monitor so colors are displayed correctly - you will not see any difference on the monitor for the various color spaces when using Photoshop. Viewing software (Windows Picture & Fax Viewer, Web, etc) are not color managed, so you will see a difference for the various color spaces of the image. If you plan to view with non color managed software, you should use sRGB color space so colors appear correctly with non color managed software.

trooney

would it not be more to do with the different colour palettes available to each app? PS, being the more powerful, having more colour palettes included.
I'm not too up on PS. I use Corel PhotoPaint, and certainly this would seem to be the case in that.

Dara Robinson

sineadw wrote:

I have no idea why they're showing different (something to do with Adobe Gamma maybe? Or the fact that one is BMP and the other is JPG?) I'm just wondering why the MSPaint bit in the first place. You can screen dump directly into CS - print screen and then new file in photoshop and it automatically creates a file from the clipboard.

Or maybe I'm missing something..

If you look at both pics they are both BMP's sinead

As for if adobe is set up correct, no idea. its all default atm

Dara Robinson

digitalage wrote:

whats your work space set at? Color gamut is wider on some working spaces. Photoshop is color managed, which means it reads the color space used in the image and converts data that is sent to the monitor so colors are displayed correctly - you will not see any difference on the monitor for the various color spaces when using Photoshop. Viewing software (Windows Picture & Fax Viewer, Web, etc) are not color managed, so you will see a difference for the various color spaces of the image. If you plan to view with non color managed software, you should use sRGB color space so colors appear correctly with non color managed software.

Not 100% sure if I understood that but think so.

My CS2 workspace is detault.

The colour I am talking about I screenied from the web, took into mspaint and saved as BPM. then opened in CS2 and looked to see what the html code of that colour was. It looks wrong on CS2 but when i use that colour on another webpage it looks the way it was supposed to

Valentia

I'd be fairly sure it's a colour space issue Dara.

In Photoshop convert the file to sRGB. (Edit/Convert to profile). Then save it. Now open in Paint and see if that works.

The other possibility is that PS is using your monitor profile. What is that set to. Look under colour settings in the edit menu. Set it to sRGB if it is not already set that way.