Saturation

[Peter van der Byl]

I am processing images in Photoshop CS6, using a calibrated screen. At the end of the process the image sis converted to sRGB and saved for the web for viewing on other devices. An external device using IRFANVIEW views the image which shows up at being over saturated with colour. Any comments. Peter

[Mij]

Presumably they have an sRGB profile set in the Color management options under Options > Properties/Settings > Zoom/Color management ?

[Peter van der Byl]

Thanks for that. Even if I view the same image on Irfanview on my monitor , it shows an image as oversaturated. When I print the image, I get a full match of colour between screen and print. It is only that Irfanview appears to alter the colour saturation somehow.

[Mij]

I am not sure that you understand what I was saying. This has nothing to do with the calibration of your monitor. If you have a color profile embedded in your image files, Irfanview can make corrections to the image colors to match that profile. Even if there is no embedded profile Irfanview can still apply a specified profile to the images if you set the options to tell it to do so.

Presumably if the images have been adjusted for an sRGB profile to be used when viewing on the web, then you want Irfanview to apply that profile too?

[Peter van der Byl]

I have been away for a while, hence the delay in responding.

To put the whole problem into perspective; I have processed images using Photoshop with the colour space set to sRGB, and any image imported has its colour space corrected to sRGB. After all corrections are made to the image the monitor view is in balance with; printer and images downloaded to an I-phone. However, when these images are viewed in IRFANVIEW they display as over saturated with an emphasis on the colour Red.

Colour settings in Irfanview are set to; Enable colour management>custom ICC RGB profile, as per the particular image being viewed.

[peppergomez]

Reviving an old thread...

I have exactly the same issue with irfanview that Peter does. Images appear oversaturated in irfanview. Regardless of type (TIFF, JPG, PSD, etc.). Irfanview, like Picassa, seems to be bumping up the saturation level for any image that I open in it.

Is there a way that I can adjust this?

[Mij]

There is an option in the Viewing tab of Properties/Settings to apply a Gamma correction to images. By default it is not enabled so the Gamma is 1 but it would presumably be possible to apply a different Gamma if that is useful. I know it's not Saturation but AFAIK it is the only color correction that can be applied automatically if you are sure that it is not a color profile issue.

[Jacal]

Try Enable colour management -> Current monitor profile, if you have this correctly set system wide. If not, set Custom profile and select your monitor profile, if you have one (preferably properly calibrated one). If not, select sRGB. The old advice two posts higher - changing custom profiles for different images viewed - is wrong, as far as I know.

And, of course, check the gamma correction setting.

[peppergomez]

Thanks, that did it