Photos look different in various programs?

[Gregorian]

While doing post processing in photoshop, I'm happy with the appearance. But when viewing on a webpage, or in windows explorer, the photo is darker. Now I'm confused as to how I can get my photos to look like I want them, on web pages.

If anyone has solutions to this, I'd like to hear them. I suppose I could do an iterative solution. Say, a specific amount of level increasing. Both internet explorer and firefox behave this way, also.

I'm editing this to alter the photo so that it looks the same in photoshop as it does in the browser. Now this looks more like what I wanted.

Well, anyways, this is one of my apple trees that has been attacked by what looks like a punker wood pecker. You should see his haircut.

[alfredo]

1. I noticed that my images seem washed out in a web browser.

I guess what you can (and it appears that is what you did) do it make a duplicate then play with the settings then drop it into a browser and compare it with the original, then keep doing it until you get the results you like.

[Gregorian]

3. I tried that, and it worked.

I'm not sure what would make the different appearances. I am assuming it's just brightness. After all, I was looking at some fantastic photos a moment ago. It just surprised me that there would be a difference.

[alfredo]

5. I guess it was the subject that made me see the

difference in how it renders.

[F.Gordon]

2. Paint Shop Pro has a View > Preview in Browser

I'm guessin' that Photoshop would have something like that.

I rarely use the Paintshoppro feature because I always want to have that excuse to fall back on. "Well, it looked good before I put it on the web." :P

My problem is when my puter' fried I got this widescreen monitor. It's great cause' I can see real 9 x 12 images when I push buttons and fuck up my snaps, but when I put them on the web they always look darker and the detail that was there in my 9 x 12 photo edit is all but gone. :(

Have no solutions for ya' but I feel your pain.
:hug:

And that is ONE aggressive punk pecker. Have you tried the Plastic Owl thing to keep punker away? Don't know if it works or not, but you can't have too many Plastic Owls in your yard. That's what my grammy always said....

[Gregorian]

4. I'm using a pre-Christ version of photoshop.

It's time to upgrade. I just have to wonder if it's a levels-only difference. I doubt it loses sharpening. So I can just bump levels for the net. I see great photos on flickr. It IS possible. :)

As for the apples, I've got millions of them. I don't think they're very good ones. And the trees are a hundred years old. I'll find out in a few weeks. There were no apples last year, so I don't know what they taste like, since I've only been here two years.

[priller]

6. It may be a color space problem

If you're editing photos in Adobe RGB color space, for example, and save them with that profile, it will look different when viewed from a browser, since they mostly assume sRGB color space.