Colors

I have a question regarding to colors. After I would do some editing on my computer, and save it after it looks good. I go to another computer and the colors are different. Sometimes its lighter on others and hard to read/see where as on my computer its perfectly fine.

What the heck is going on?!

That's normal, every monitor will display things differently -- often drastically so! There can be problems with using colour profiles which render differently (or are ignored) on different screens, but even if you take those into account my first sentence still stands true.

Ahh, thats the tough part about designing. You gotta make sure the design is the colors you want it to be on any computer you go to. Ahh well, thanks anyways!

could also be to do with their settings on the monitor, ie contrast?. brightness...etc

are you embedding the colour profile in the image? you should be.

you're probably not embedding the colour profile in the image, which means the monitors default one is applied.

when you're in save for web (you should be if it's for screen output), look for the triangle to the top right of the image preview box. make sure embed colour profile is checked.

settings on your monitor

Thanks for the help, i'll look into it.

thats because the monitors are using different colour settings.

It's certainly frustrating, but it's always been a problem.

Had a small accident with my monitor recently which prompted me to get a replacement - After setting up the new monitor, I found that the original monitor was set too low on brightness...

Working on a personal site I didn't realise how drastic the difference was until I looked at it through my new (correctly configured) monitor.

I used to use monitor calibration techniques alot but for some reason (probably laziness), stopped doing so. Safe to say I'll be keep up with calibration from now on, granted, this doesn't fix the different display issues encountered on different monitors but it helps.