photoshop troubleshooting

[lufiamanaelf]

Here's a question for some of you more experienced Photoshopers.  I just bought myself CS3 and installed it on my mac a couple days ago.  It was all working fine, everything as it should.  But then yesterday I take it out to try some manga coloring, it something's funky.  I started coloring in Painter, and then brought it into Photoshop to edit it and suddenly the colors were crazy saturated.  When I went to export the super saturated panel, it was back to normal!

Here's a screenshot to better understand:


So now apparently what I see when I'm working on the picture isn't how it'll look when it's exported.  And I'd be a little less confused if it weren'r for the fact that even the "Original" in the optimization menu looks different from what I see in the workspace.

Help guys?  Please?

[Fayna]

The colors look fine in that PSD file on the left. Is that the one where you imported from Painter? If it is, I'd say it might be some compression settings when you're in the Save for Web... dialog box. Check the settings to the right and see.

What happens when you try to save as JPEG? Are the colors still borked?

Sorry I'm not much help. I've never seen that much color loss before. I have CS3 and a Mac as well.

If you're up for it, you can try emailing me the file or attaching it to this post so we can take a look at it. Totally up to you though.

[staceyy]

could be the way your saving it from painter, try copying it from painter (without saving) and then pasting it into a ps document.. if the problems gone, change your export info on painter

[blahdee]

I have no idea how to fix it, but I have CS3 too, and this happens to me.
And when I'm making something, I know it's not going to be the right color,
so I [print screen] and save that version of it, it turns out to the be colors I was working with.

--I'm just glad I'm not the only one.