[Curtybob]

Ok... I am not anywhere near being graphically inclined. But I do like to play around with photoshop when I have a good reason, and I have always made my own sigs (mainly just one with text changes over time).

Well, I grabbed a copy of photoshop CS2, and noticed that the colors are way different inside photoshop than what gets shown when the same picture is outside of photoshop.

example:



It looks like they are 2 different pics, but they are the same exact file. I even saved the image from my current sig, and opened it in photoshop to make sure that it wasn't getting changed by something online.

So, question is, is there anything I can do? I ain't worried about this sig... it was kinda thrown together quickly and I don't really like it. My main concern is whether photoshop is messed up, or maybe I am just being too picky.

Second question is related to borders. Does anyone have any good border tuts handy? I would really like to find out how they do the "rolled edge" border. It kinda looks like a campaign pin or a bubble sticker or something.

Anyway, thanks in advance for any help.

[gries818]

its prolly the quality of the file you exported. I don't really like jpeg very much. try png but watch out because its bigger. i usually use jpeg for sigs for this forum so i meet the size requirement.

experiment with the quality settings.

[b_a88]

I would say it has some thing to do with the color settings. I am not sure what to change exactly though so I'm not much more help than that. Sorry.

[gries818]

did you make the file as a .psd???

[Curtybob]

did you make the file as a .psd???

Yeah. I always save the file as .psd and as whatever I save it to for the end result. I also set the quality settings to max (10) when I save to jpeg... if it is too big for my sig, I adjust the adjust the file size by either cropping off a few rows of pixels, or by adjusting the canvas size if it doesn't distort the image too badly.

BTW, what you see above is a screenshot of the .jpg open in photoshop, drug over onto a window of IE7 with the forum open. I just drug it right above my sig as it appears in the forum for a direct comparison. If it were the psd I had opened, I could understand why there would be a difference, but the file opened in photoshop is the exact same file I uploaded to imageshack.... which is what you see here at the forum.

[xxsonyboy4lfexx]

Its your color settings. I have the same problem too! But not that bad