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[Twilight Imaging.net]

For some reason I have had problems when opening and saving files in PS.
I don't know if it's an RGB and sRGB conversion problem, or what.
When I opened and saved this first one the colors are very saturated...the second...not so.
I did notice when I got home the saturation (in camera) was set too high and not in it's normal neutral position. But...this problems keeps rearing up...any ideas?
Thanks a cool Mill$$$$!!
Mike

[*Mike*]

I'm not sure if I understand entirely what you've got going on... but let's start with colorspace issues. What is your default colorspace in CS2, and what are the files you're working on?

[Twilight Imaging.net]

Thanks for answering Mike. The above images don't really help much so I am loading a few more. What happens is this...
I open an image in PS (RGB), make some adjustments...or sometimes no adjustments.
Later open the image in Microsoft pic manager, which I know I shouldn't be using, and resize in this program, and wham the color goes nuts. I don't know how to check which color scale it uses.
The below images were sized and cropped in Microsoft, one however, had some adjustments in PS...the blown out one. Does this make any sense? Thanks again for the help!!

[jeffkohn]

First things first, let's get Photoshop set up correctly so that it's behavior is consistent. Go to Edit -> Color Settings. In the "Color Management Policies" section, make sure that all 3 combo boxes are set to "Preserve Embedded Profiles". Also make sure that both "Ask when Opening" checkboxes and the "Ask When Pasting" checkbox are checked. If you don't do that, you run the risk that Photoshop will convert profiles behind your back without even asking in some cases.

Now, when you open a file if the embedded profile is missing or doesn't match the working space, you'll get prompted what to do. In the case of a profile mistmatch, you can either convert to the working space or preserve the embedded profile, it doesn't really matter. As long as the image has a correct profile things should look OK in Photoshop (they may not look OK in Internet Explorer if the profile is anything other than sRGB though). But for mismatched profiles, you never want to Assign a new profile, you should always either preserve or convert.

In the case of a missing profile, it gets a little bit trickier. Generally speaking you'll want to assign the correct profile before doing any profile conversions. The tricky part is knowing which profile you should assign. For camera JPEG's it's usually sRGB, unless your camera has an option to shoot JPEG's in another colorspace such as AdobeRGB and you've enabled that. In that case you'd assign Adobe RGB. Once you've assigned the correct missing profile, you can then convert to another profile if you want (such as Photoshop's working space).