Colormanagement

[Typestorm]

Hello guys,

I've got a question about color management.

When I save a file to .png it looks much darker than in photoshop.
At all my new monitor looks much darker than my old one too.

I havn't done any settings to colormanagement yet.
That concerns Windows, Photoshop and my monitor.

Can you tell me what settings I have to do?
I've got a book about this subject, but I didn't had time to read it yet.

I hope you can help me.

[LekoArts]

As you already mentioned you should calibrate your monitor. But I´ve got an idea.

Probably you just imagine the change. Maybe the surrounding color of your document influences your view.

Is your surrounding color 50% grey? (like this

[Typestorm]

Yes it is. I don't only imagine.
(RGB: 128, 128, 128)

[LekoArts]

Can you preclude the color space (CMYK, sRGB + profile) as a problem?

[Typestorm]

No. At the moment I don't know anything about color spaces and how they work etc.

[ruben_f]

Also, be sure you save your image files with a color profile (sRGB/AdobeRGB/etc.)

Color Management implicates a lot of factors. Calibrating your monitors with a sensor like a Spyder, working with printer profiles, and of course saving the image information of your files correctly.

This eBook was a good crash course for me:

[Typestorm]

Originally Posted by ruben_f

Also, be sure you save your image files with a color profile (sRGB/AdobeRGB/etc.)

I'm using sRGB.

Originally Posted by ruben_f

Calibrating your monitors with a sensor like a Spyder

I'm not sure if I want to pay like 150€ "just" to calibrate my monitor.
Design is "just" a hobby, I'm not sure if it's worth it.

btw. I have a curved monitor, does this Spyer-thing work there too?
I don't think so.

[LekoArts]

You really need a calibrated monitor if you do a lot of printing.
Otherwise your monitor needn´t be fully calibrated because on the web every user sees the image a little bit different.

So, any progress on your "image export problem" ?

[Typestorm]

Originally Posted by LeKoArts

You really need a calibrated monitor if you do a lot of printing.

Not really. 99% of my work is for web only.

Originally Posted by LeKoArts

So, any progress on your "image export problem" ?

Yes. The problem is solved.
But I really don't know why. I havn't changed anything.

Thank you all for your answears.

[LekoArts]

Sorry, wanted to say: "If you do a lot of printing you need a calibrated monitor"

Problem solved -> #closed