What Photoshop color settings should I use for consistent web viewing?
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I want my photos to look as consistent as possible when shared online. What Photoshop color-management settings should I use for web output, and is there anything else I should do to improve on-screen consistency across different devices and browsers?
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Yes, for working on the web, those settings will generally make what appears in Photoshop match what will show up in a web browser.
Of course, this does not account for differences in how monitors are calibrated, so on a different screen all bets are off.
The other thing to worry about is not attaching a color profile if you use File > Save For Web & Devices. Web browsers do not do anything with color profiles attached to images. In CS4 or later you can also convert the image to sRGB, but that won't make a difference if you've already been working in the Monitor RGB (with the workspace set to sRGB) proof setup with Proof Colors on.
You'll find an overview of all this in this blog post and in much more detail here.
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For web use, the community guidance is to work in sRGB and preserve profiles. In Photoshop, that means using sRGB as your RGB working space and keeping the color-management policies set to Preserve. Using Proof Setup set to Monitor RGB with Proof Colors on can help Photoshop preview more like what a browser will show on your own display.
The big limitation is that screens vary. Even with the right Photoshop settings, your images can still look different on other people’s monitors, so true cross-device consistency is never guaranteed.
The most important extra step is to calibrate your own monitor. That won’t make everyone else’s screen accurate, but it helps ensure your display is at least reasonably neutral rather than far off.
Also be careful when exporting for the web: older browser/workflow advice warns that attached color profiles may be ignored, so converting to sRGB before export is the safest general approach for online sharing.
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