by Medley on Fri Aug 03, 2007 12:08 pm
There is likely going to be a slight variation. sRGB is a smaller color space than most. So when you covert a document to those colors, there are going to be some colors that sRGB can't match. In this case, it will look for the closest possible color that it can reproduce. I think this is why you see a difference.
The beauty of converting the document to sRGB is that you can use Photoshop to tweak those colors to where you want them, and they won't change when you save. Since you're doing the edits in sRGB, you know that any edit you do is going to be directly usable by the web.
Open your screenshot (the "look" you're trying to match), then open the Photoshop file next to it. Use Photoshop to adjust the colors as closely as possible. It's not going to be perfect, because you don't have as many colors to work with. But, you can still get closer than Photoshop did when it converted it on the fly. YOU get to control how the conversion looks, rather than letting Photoshop control it. The end result is almost always a better looking file, and one that is still compatable with web colors.
When you set your monitor to sRGB colors, it controls how everything looks on the screen. I think you'll find that doing so changed how the original looked, rather than changing the file to match the colors of the original. The slight difference is probably due to the settings within the "save for web" dialog box. That's probably not what you want, but it still shouldn't change how the file you're working on will look.
- Joe U.
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