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 ^-^

[missnh]

O_o this has never happened to me before... are you using Imageready and making an animation? To keep your quality, save it as a Photoshop file. To upload it, just click File > Save as > select .jpg. It should retain most of the image quality.

[Stefanny]

Save it as a png. Much better quality, though it takes up more disc space.

[superficial]

I suggest that you save it as JPG, and when it pops up a window, don't save it yet and then put it to the highest quality. Or you could do it the simpler way and just save it as .PNG

Moved to Graphics' Help.

[Just_Dream]

You can input values -- quality percentages -- but make sure it's at least 60%. 80% is optimal if you want high quality without using too much disk space. I usually don't lose regular colors.. I mean they're not perfect, but they're relatively close. I don't know why yours turns redish purple?

[RossVolturi]

O_o this has never happened to me before... are you using Imageready and making an animation? To keep your quality, save it as a Photoshop file. To upload it, just click File > Save as > select .jpg. It should retain most of the image quality.

oh but thats.. exactly what i did first.. it looked fine before i uploaded it on myspace and photobucket. -_-

[austinoutloud]

I would just save it as a .PNG, as long as it isn't HUGE or anything.

[RossVolturi]

You can input values -- quality percentages -- but make sure it's at least 60%. 80% is optimal if you want high quality without using too much disk space. I usually don't lose regular colors.. I mean they're not perfect, but they're relatively close. I don't know why yours turns redish purple?

ahehe me neither .. i've never heard it happened to anyone
and i got this for 100% on quality:

the colors are a little close too but not like what i had while editing

do u think this is good nuff??

[manny-the-dino]

Save it as a png. Much better quality, though it takes up more disc space.

yeah if you want to retain the quality, i suggest you save your image as a PNG.
but i did find this tutorial on how to optimize your pictures.
i hope it helps!

[desakatao]

SAVE AS PNG.

[absinthe]

oh but thats.. exactly what i did first.. it looked fine before i uploaded it on myspace and photobucket. -_-

That's a different question entirely!

Photobucket and Myspace generally resize and compress images that are either too large in dimension and/or file size. You may be losing your colors and quality due to that.

If you want your images to reflect what you saved in Photoshop, I'd suggest uploading to a host that doesn't compress images, although that still won't help when uploading to Myspace.

[vintage-toile]

did you merge all the layers before saving?
somehow, i did this once and the quality was better, because pixels werent fractured as the image was merged during saving.
try that.

[PrincessaTessa08]

If you dont want your pics to look all pixely o the web then save as png, which stands for portable networks graphic. which obviously means it is good for being moved to the net

[xgrizzy]

That's a different question entirely!

Photobucket and Myspace generally resize and compress images that are either too large in dimension and/or file size. You may be losing your colors and quality due to that.

If you want your images to reflect what you saved in Photoshop, I'd suggest uploading to a host that doesn't compress images, although that still won't help when uploading to Myspace.

^^ yeah myspace & photobucket mess up the quality alot mostly gif files & such.

[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.

[Gargle]

I would just save it as a .PNG or Save as .JPG and optimize it with LOWEST compression (0 quality loss)


:)