Every time I've tried to add a banner into Dreamweaver, the color gets severely desaturated. My color profiles are all synch'd, and I can't understand what's going on. I do not think this is a color profile issue anyway... the change is too drastic. When I click to add a picture inside the banner div tag, I choose the psd file as the source, and it asks me choose a save location and quality for the jpeg/png/gif file, whatever I choose. In the preview to this box is when the desaturation first shows up. Choosing different qualities and different file types does not help, and only serve to change the color very marginally.

I've tried converting the colors in the banner to web-safe colors in Photoshop, but they tend to get slightly darker, not lighter (in Photoshop), and then desaturate in Dreamweaver just like the original colors.

Anybody know what gives?

Here's an idea - stop using this Photoshop --> Dreamweaver thing.
Copy the banner section out of photoshop into it's own file, do a "Save for Web", save it as a JPG, put the jpg file into your web site directory and pull it in with the proper <img> tag.

I realize that these Adobe suites are putting this stuff in place to make it 'easy' for newbies to do things, that doesn't mean it's the best way, or that it will yield good results.

Doesn't matter how I add it, the result is the same either way.

I think Dreamweaver is converting it to a weird profile, but I don't know how to change that. I've attached a picture to show you how drastic the change is. It's not even close to being the right color.

If you're eagle eyed you'll catch that the brighter colored banner is a tiff in CMYK, which is all wrong, but take my word for it, it doesn't matter what profile it's in when I save it, and it doesn't matter which file type it is, the result is always the same, which is what I've posted below:

Bump.

No one else is having this issue?

When doing web work always use RGB, CMYK is for print and not the web. When you have your created images use those to take colours from and apply to your CSS styles.

I think Dreamweaver is converting it to a weird profile

Dreamweaver doesn't do any conversions at all. However, if you do a 'save for web' to a JPG, it's going to use RGB colors, and that 'translation' won't always produce the same colors.

Convert the TIFF to RGB first, then adjust colors as needed.
Are you using color management in Photoshop ?

Originally Posted by LadynRed

Dreamweaver doesn't do any conversions at all. However, if you do a 'save for web' to a JPG, it's going to use RGB colors, and that 'translation' won't always produce the same colors.

Convert the TIFF to RGB first, then adjust colors as needed.
Are you using color management in Photoshop ?

Even if I convert to the Adobe RGB (1998) profile, the save it for web as as jpeg, it still doesn't translate right. When I save it for the web as a jpeg from Photoshop, it looks fine in the preview. Looks fine inside Photoshop after I save it. It looks fine everywhere until I go to add it into Dreamweaver and in the preview box before hitting "Insert" is where you first see it desaturated, and it looks the same on the page as it does in the preview box.

Alright... I figured it out.

The discrepancy was between my monitor's color profile (Macbook Pro), which was whatever Apple's standard LCD profile is, and the Creative Suite's color profile, which was set to Adobe RGB (1998). CS4, and probably the past Suites as well, come with the computer's LCD profile as default. I had changed this in the past because of a Deke McClelland video I watched on Lynda.com, where he recommended the more accurate Adobe profile. The color wasn't actually changing, but once the banner got into the Adobe profile it displayed the colors a little differently, and probably more accurately.

know what i like the way of your colors and design keep up the good work