Colors are off

[Ryan Smith]

I have an image I just edited and in Photoshop it looks great. When I save it to Jpg and post it on the web then it looks washed out. I did convert the image to 8 bit in PS and it still looks great. Any ideas on how to get a good color correction on this?

[Shane Parker]

What colorspace was the photo shot in? 99% of browsers can only display in sRGB. I'm guessing that you:

a. either shot the image in something like AdobeRGB, or

b. you have Photoshop set to convert images to something like AdobeRGB

Short Answer:

Convert the image to sRGB in Photoshop when working on images that you intend to output to the web.

[Todd Corzett]

Shane nailed it... make sure things are in sRGB for the web. You may also want to check the color/image settings in the specific browser you use, incase there is something going on there.

-Todd...

[Ryan Smith]

Here is the image. It's a girl. It just looks so dull.
http://www.streetracing.org/artwork/spanish_rose2.jpg

I just checked in PS Color Settings. Mine is set for "North America General Purpose 2"

should it be set for monitor?

[Jeremy Hua]

If you were using a Mac, the colors would look the same from PS vs the web browser as the Mac browser recognizes the Adobe color profile

As if you really needed a third person to tell you, convert to sRGB. :D