Preserving color

Sorry to bother all you fine folks, but I've posted this at all my regular "hangs", and no one knows how to help me. I have a vivid red collage I made but however I save it in Photoshop Elements, it comes out less red and more brownish. When I take a screen shot of it and save that in Paint, it preserves the colors, so it does seem to be a photoshop thing.

I noticed first when I opened the "Save for web..." window, and both the original and preview images were more brown than the image was while working with it. I changed the color setting to "Limited Color Management", that doesn't help.

Any tips or help? This is really bugging me.

-Mem

The BMP format supports all the colors that your monitor can handle, but image compression formats such as GIF and JPEG cut down the quality and the amount of available colors in order to cut down the file size.

When you save for web. Use the "selective" color space. Don't use web safe or any of the others.

too be doubly sure - turn off colour management in photoshop

These guys beat me to it, but yah, what they said should help you out.

Thank you for all the advice, it's more than I've gotten anywhere else.

Saving it in BMP doesn't do the trick, it's just as brown. I've tried without color management too, still nothing. I don't think Photoshop Elements has color space options in Save for web, but I'm going to try it on full Photoshop tomorrow (I don't have access to it over the weekend). That might do the trick, wish me luck and I'll tell you how it goes later.

-Mem

Why not just adjust the colour to your liking using photoshops tools?