Blue always turns purple.

[YrbkMgr]

Set your color space for WEB or turn color management off.

[Phosphor]

This is a color management issue and you'll need to do a little studying and system tweaking to get it a little closer.

Start with the following items in the FAQ section of this forum:
Chris Cox "Color doesn't look right in Photoshop or after rebooting computer." 6/5/02 4:33pm </cgi-bin/webx?50@@.ef44dc8/1>
Mathias Vejerslev "Adobe Gamma and Nvidia drivers problem" 10/16/02 9:34pm </cgi-bin/webx?50@@.1de6184f> (just in case you see this problem)

Then spend some time with the appropriate articles at Ian Lyon's Computer Darkroom site <http://www.computer-darkroom.com/home.htm>.

Since all systems are different, this is one of those things that each individual needs to study for themselves. The above links are a good place to start.

[Skip Thorp]

[Skip Thorp]

okay I looked into the tips from above and none of it helped. My color management is off and has been off. This is not a problem with my monitor nor my video card. This is a problem with Photoshop itself. When working in the .psd files my color is correct and what I want it to be. It's just when I save it to .jpg or other formats that blue turns purple. All other colors seem to stay the correct hue. This happens regardless of whether I'm using web safe colors, cmyk, or rgb. Whenever I go from .psd to any other file format this happens.

[Phosphor]

"This is a problem with Photoshop itself."




No, it is NOT (he said, emphatically). It's simply a gap in your understanding...no big deal. Color management is a feisty, complex beast, and it takes patience and perseverance to get a handle on it.

Study some more, your answers are there.

[Skip Thorp]

you know what? I came here looking for an answer not what to go study to find it. I will obviously not get the help I need here.

[d. wade thompson]

Skip,
send Phosphor a plane ticket and i'm sure for a nominal fee he will be happy to come to your house and color manage your computer for you. is this the kind of help you need?

[Skip Thorp]

no, the kind of help I need would come from someone that actually has the ability to answer my question. I simply want to know why my dark blues are turning purple. The answer should be in the form of: Your dark blues are turning purple because <insert answer here>. If people are incapable of doing this, then they don't need to be responding to my post and copping an attitude with me when I tell them their answer didn't help me.

[Phosphor]

Skip...

I'm pointing you toward some of the best info available, sites that have solved the same problems you're having for literally hundreds of visitors to this forum. It's information that is put together in a more cohesive and clear manner than I—or anyone else—could, or would care to muster up in this venue. If the links I posted don't get it done for you I have plenty more, and I'll be happy to provide them. The thing is, the info laid out in them is even more in-depth than the ones above, and possibly not entirely germane to your short-term goal.

I guess you're frustrated with your current state of affairs, but I can't wave my wand and wish the info into your head. Like I said, sussing out color issues is daunting to EVERYONE upon first encounter and everyone who comes here for help on the matter comes to the realization that they must simply knuckle down and do the required study and tinkering. It'll take some work, but you'll come out the other end of your efforts with more confidence in your knowledge and a better understanding of how all the separate issues of color management work together.

That's not attitude, that's plain bloody fact.

BTW, along with airfare and lodging, my personal consulting fees are US$200/hour. Discounts rates are available for 6 hour blocks of time (I won't work longer than that per day when consulting) when booked for 3 or more consecutive days.

Now, that's attitude.

[Phosphor]

Any of you Windows folks want to field any Windows-specific issues Skip may be dealing with?

With any luck, Skip, Ian Lyons will pop his head into this thread and break it down for you.

[Skip Thorp]

I should also add that I have done other blue hued graphics on this computer with this copy of Photoshop that have not turned purple one or two others have but I don't see the diffence in my methods between the ones that do and the ones that don't.

[YrbkMgr]

Skip,

Chill pill - the answer is: JPG and Gif color shifts are the result of color space. Period. Unless you are suggesting that you have found a bug, whereby photoshop incorrectly calculates color. If that were true, the issue would have been an issue for more than just you.

They all talk about either color calibration for monitors(which I don't
need and is not the problem)




No disrespect intended, but how do you know it is not the problem? Your claim that you do not need it, is, in fact, suspect from the standpoint of the idea that ALL color issues begin with a good monitor profile.

I have personally answered questions like yours dozens of times and when we send the poster to Ian's site, and they take the time, they post back "Hey it worked!".

If you have a good monitor profile and you are experiencing a shift from one format to the other, it is a color management issue. Are you using Save For Web to create your JPG's or Gif's? When you look at the image in photoshop, at the bottom, near the status bar, what does the document profile say? Untagged?

Under Edit|Color Settings, what do your Color Management Policies say for RGB and CMYK? And while we're at it, what MODE is the image in?

Peace,
Tony

[barry gray]

Skip-
Bizzar! you don't need monitor calibration. OF COURSE YOU DO! and if you refuse to try to learn on your own and/or spend the time perusing the very excellent advise from those in this form you'll for ever be helpless!
Pitifully sad indeed!

Bless you Phos and Tony!