JPGs changing color when importing/exporting

[Gidders]

Two related questions

I have a color managed workflow, with a profiled monitor and Epson 1290
printer. I use Photoshop CS2 and Pub 2002. I prepare my images in PS and save
them as JPGs with sRGB color profiles. I am trying to create a full year
calendar in Pub on a single page with a different image for each month. I
have the dates in an excel worksheet which I insert as an object.

Q1 - When I import my images into Pub they all lack in vribrancy and
saturation. I know that I can change brightness & contrast in format picture
but a) this should be necessary & b) it doesnt get them back to how they were
in PS. When I print the out put has the same slightly washed out appearance.

Q2 - I also want to produce some of these as 24 x 20 photos. I have
therefore used the save as option to creat a JPG which I was proposing to
send to my local photographic lab. However the output JPG is OVER saturated
and skin tones look dreadful.

Anyone any ideas what I need to do?

Thanks

 

[Matt Beals]

Two related questions

I have a color managed workflow, with a profiled monitor and Epson 1290
printer. I use Photoshop CS2 and Pub 2002. I prepare my images in PS and save
them as JPGs with sRGB color profiles. I am trying to create a full year
calendar in Pub on a single page with a different image for each month. I
have the dates in an excel worksheet which I insert as an object.

Q1 - When I import my images into Pub they all lack in vribrancy and
saturation. I know that I can change brightness & contrast in format picture
but a) this should be necessary & b) it doesnt get them back to how they were
in PS. When I print the out put has the same slightly washed out appearance.

Q2 - I also want to produce some of these as 24 x 20 photos. I have
therefore used the save as option to creat a JPG which I was proposing to
send to my local photographic lab. However the output JPG is OVER saturated
and skin tones look dreadful.

Anyone any ideas what I need to do?

Thanks

If you are looking for color management support the last place you should
look to is an Office product. Save the images as EPS files from PhotoShop
and import those. That way Publisher can't screw with the color. As for
saving them as a jpeg for enlarging from Publisher all
I'm going to say is "oi vey".

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