Photoshop experts ?!, Adobe Photoshop: saving without losing quality Options

[RossVolturi]

Can someone help me please?

So here's the situation:
I used a Vintage tutorial for my picture and it looked awesome when it was done-- the colors, the quality, everything.

But then when i saved it as a jpg file it looked UGLY . I tried using "save for web" but it doesn't help. The colors that are supposedly blue became some shade of purplish redish.

I tried looking for any tutorials for this but 0 gud results.
Please. Photoshop experts anybody? please help me i need to know how to save without losing ANYTHING at all.

pls and thanks much ^-^

[fixtatik]

it could be due to a couple of different things because of the way photoshop handles colors and layers.

in the save for web dialog, there's a tick box for "ICC profile." it doesn't make a huge difference and it makes the file a little bigger, but it's basically just an extra bit of information to keep more of the colors there. unfortunately, a lot of browsers won't even recognize that the profile's there.

this probably isn't the issue, but it's another possibility: adobe RGB vs. sRGB. photos that are rendered in adobe RGB look amazing in photoshop and when they're printed on inkjet printers, but they look terrible in a web browser, unless you're using a certain Mac computer. sRGB photos look washed out when you print them, but great in web browsers. in the "save for web" box, next to the type of file you're saving the picture as, there should be a little arrow. click that, and make sure "convert to sRGB" is checked.

if you have layers , then make sure you merge all of them together before using the "save for web" feature. sometimes it won't include all the layers. i think the layers you're using to make it "vintage" are what the problem is.