Colour in Photoshop

[MichelleJones]

Okay, I hope you guys can help me...I've attached a screen cap to illustrate my headache...

Firstly I'd like to just say that my monitor is calibrated using the latest spyder.

I'm currently working on some final wedding photo's, my first digital wedding and as soon as the colour looks good, everything is good I save in sRGB after working in the same RGB colour space. I just opened my normal windows browsing screen and the yellows seem to have been completely desaturated? I'm left with images that are red/magenta cast to them.

The proofs that I send off came back like this as well, I didn't worry too much at the time but these are the final images! What can I do? What am I doing wrong?

I'm working in Adobe RGB and I've converted the working document to sRGB and saved as a .jpg (maximum).
The colours are getting me so frustrated, I've attached a screen shot of the photoshop document window (left) and the windows viewer screen (Right). As you can probally see the windows one is showing the document as less saturated and there are hardly any or no yellows in the image. The winows one is what I get when I send the images off to print. Not good considering the dress is supposed to white and the flowers were yellow roses.

I'm confused and upset. I'm considering formatting the computer to see if that helps, it would set me back about a week. I'm at the end of my tether...

Ps: I did the screen cap in PS, it's desaurated the pic of the PS image and the yellows have been muted as well.

[visualchemistry]

I don't know this for sure but I had similar problems when I first started doing designs for print - OK this was CMYK but the same problems arose - I'd have something looking great but when it came back it was flat as you like - After speaking to a few printers and searching forums etc, it looked the best thing to do was to go into the colour preferences of PS and switch them off completely

I had a nightmare when I first started doing print but since switching the colour prefs off, everything comes out smashing - literally go into colour settings and set to "colour management off" - then whatever you save is exactly how windows previews it as well - I'm sure unless your printers are using the same colour space as you, they will either ditch your colour profile or use their own

Hope that works

James

[bedlam123]

The suggestion visualchemistry made is excellent and should make a big difference.---bedlam123

[tyty9892]

thats exactly what happened to me. I say for it to "discard the color profile" then it should come up correct. i spent days trying to figure that out when i first got photoshop

[ldinami7e]

Its cool, but nothing natural