Image Color Faded When Save For Web [Adobe Photoshop CS3]

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If you are a web designer migrated from Adobe Photoshop CS2 to CS3, you might noticed whenever you attempt to save images in the format of ‘Save for web‘, the images tend to get a little bit faded from the original; regardless of the file formats (.GIF, .JPEG, .PNG). Some may say the difference is not too obvious and it’s fine, but it’s enough to kill a frustrated designer. Well, at least me.


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When you do a “Save for web” from your original .PSD (or any other formats), your output should look very similar to the original. So why is Adobe Photoshop CS3 giving a faded version of the original instead? – That’s because Photoshop convert your image to sRGB by default. All you need to do is uncheck the ‘Convert to sRGB‘ and you should get your original colors back the next time you do an image save.

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Posted by hongkiat in Photoshop Tutorials , at 06.04.08

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  1. alisabki June 5th, 2008

    so nice. simple but practical. thanks for this tip.

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  2. Mike June 11th, 2008

    Thank you soooo much! I couldn’t figure out why, all of a sudden, my optimized images were coming out faded after having done it with no problems so many times before. I was just about ready to give up for the day. THANKS!

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  3. hongkiat June 11th, 2008

    @Mike I can understand how bad it feels. At one moment, I was really thinking of reverting back to CS2

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  4. janboar June 16th, 2008

    Awesome mate I thought it’s only me! love it, thanks so much.

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  5. Robert Zhou June 20th, 2008

    Thanks so much!!

    I just forward this information to a bunch of different web developers.

    We were also wondering why the Save as Web graphic looked so different.

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  6. DaKid July 2nd, 2008

    Thanks!

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  7. Richard Moore July 13th, 2008

    Wow. Thank you so much!

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  8. Jill July 19th, 2008

    after unchecking the problem still occurs… help anyone?

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  9. lestat2000_vamp August 11th, 2008

    thanks mate…..

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  10. John Stevens November 16th, 2008

    This was frustrating me for months. Never found the answer and gave up hope, until I stumble upon this page by accident :)

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  11. Nathan November 21st, 2008

    It’s not working for me. Graphics are still faded. Does the source graphic have to be in some particular color space?

    Note to Adobe: this “feature” is *utter* *crap*. I’ve wasted days trying to work around it.

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  12. Yong June 14th, 2009

    This is very helpful. Many thanks for sharing.

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  13. Unvader July 4th, 2009

    Thank you, i was a bit to delete a whole design cuz of it.
    u saved days of work, thank you very very Much.

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  14. PK September 3rd, 2009

    That option to convert to sRGB does not come up on my “Save for Web”

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  15. Pamela November 12th, 2009

    Ha!!! Thank you! I’ve been going crazy with this!

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