Hi,

After reading something re working in Lab mode with PS for curves on this forum (I had already been giving it a try for noise) I did my research and tried it out.

The results are remarkable!

A strange thing happens though. When I open the file with PS the colours are there and the photo looks great. When I open the file with (windows) viewer, the photo looks flat and dull (as if it was never processed).

Has this sort of thing happened to you? I'm reluctant to upload my batch until I sort this out.

Lina

I think you may want to check  your working mode , you are probably saving your photos as Adobe RGB and not sRGB .


I think this may link can help you :


http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/sRGB-AdobeRGB1998.htm

I had a similar problem. In my case I had the color management optimized for print, which gave the image a stronger red tone. When I switched it back to no optimization, it went normal again. Color management optimization is translated from German photoshop, so I am not sure if that is the right term for the English photoshop.

I don't know if this applies in this case, but I've found in the past that Windows seems to store some files in caches, heaven knows where, or why.

I used to get this with Outlook Express (in the days when I used it). I'd insert an image file into an e-mail, decide it was too big or something, and go back to image editing to change it.

But when I tried to insert the revised file it would always revert to my original one. The only way around that I found was to re-name the new version.

Maybe this is happening here. You could try re-naming the file (put a 1 on the end of the filename for example) and see if that makes any difference.