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Stupid photoshop, grrr
misskentucky
post Dec 1 2005, 07:12 PM
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Alright so I make something on photoshop and save it and upload it onto www.tinypic.com and it looks different. Darker. And when I save it the little picture above the name ya know in the saving screen looks different and darker too. How can I fix this? It's super annoying.
 
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post Dec 1 2005, 07:49 PM
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What extention did you save it under? (eg. gif, png, jpg, etc..)
 
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post Dec 1 2005, 08:01 PM
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Tinypic..no offense..but it sucks. Try Imageshack.us They're awesome.
 
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post Dec 1 2005, 08:14 PM
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QUOTE(Szeh @ Dec 1 2005, 7:49 PM)
What extention did you save it under? (eg. gif, png, jpg, etc..)
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Usually png. What's the best one? Ok I tried it in imageshack and it still looks darker than the original.
 
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post Dec 1 2005, 08:29 PM
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I like png. To me it's the best.
 
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post Dec 1 2005, 09:24 PM
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go to file > save for web so that you have better settings and if you click the optimized tag you can see what it will look like when you save it.
 
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post Dec 1 2005, 11:38 PM
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do you use IE? because I don't know why, but sometimes my .png files do come out darker.. if any part of it is transparent, that is.
 
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post Dec 2 2005, 09:28 PM
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I guess since it still comes out darker you should go to Image>>Adjustments>>brightness/contrast and lighten it up before you save?
 
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post Dec 2 2005, 10:05 PM
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A-hem. A COMPLETELY useless fact to know :: IE will render every .png image far darker than it should look. This is why IE sucks. _smile.gif
Save it as a .jpg instead, .png is widely supported as of yet anyways.
 
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post Dec 5 2005, 01:09 AM
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QUOTE(fishcake-y @ Dec 2 2005, 7:05 PM)
A-hem. A COMPLETELY useless fact to know :: IE will render every .png image far darker than it should look. This is why IE sucks. _smile.gif
Save it as a .jpg instead, .png is widely supported as of yet anyways.

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whoa seriously?! I had NO idea
 
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post Dec 6 2005, 06:39 PM
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QUOTE(fishcake-y @ Dec 2 2005, 10:05 PM)
A-hem. A COMPLETELY useless fact to know :: IE will render every .png image far darker than it should look. This is why IE sucks. _smile.gif
Save it as a .jpg instead, .png is widely supported as of yet anyways.

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Uh no...I have IE and my .png's are perfectly fine.
 
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post Dec 6 2005, 06:42 PM
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QUOTE(Kristinaa @ Dec 6 2005, 3:39 PM)
Uh no...I have IE and my .png's are perfectly fine.
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maybe it just detects that the users have FF [or similar] as their default, and basically craps all over our .png's..? mellow.gif

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[it does do it to me as well, like mentioned before..].
 
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post Dec 6 2005, 06:50 PM
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my sig's a .PNG and...that's exactly how it looked in photoshop..when i was making it..

But whatever.

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Maybe it is IE...and..I'm blind.
 
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post Dec 6 2005, 07:20 PM
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I was kidding...


and from what I've seen, it only does it to .png's with some sort of transparency..
 

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