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    How do you do a clean conversion/save to a .jpg? It always gets darker and a little more grainy when I save it. To compensate I can sometimes add a brighness of +10 and a contrast of +15 or is it 15/10...i can't remember. Anyways, I always save at a 10 or 12 quality..the highest you can do so it can't be that. I just want my pics to remain looking like the .psd!

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    You're always gonna lose a little bit of quality when going from photoshop to anything else, not much else you can do other than play with brightness, contrast or you can try this. Go to Image>Adjustments>Auto Levels & Auto Contrast. The third method may look kinda funky on screen (depending on monitor), but Photoshop generlly does a pretty good job of adjusting the levels and contrast automatically.

    I've been going to school for this for probably a total of 3-4 years now, and work at a design company. No one has yet to design a monitor or video card that allows a visual of anything close to what you're gonna get when printing. As fars as computers go Macs probably render color the best....Okay, now I'm rambling....I'll shut up.

    Sorry I couldn't be more help.
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    first one is a jpg and the second is the psd...

    *edit* dammit, doesn't show...
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    I'm using a Mac, I opened both files, and the only difference I see between the two is that the .psd file is a hair darker, which makes the red a tad bit more vivid. But, to someone who isn't paying close attention to that and doesn't look at stuff like this all day long - it's damn near impossible to tell the difference.
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    Ditto on being on an Apple;

    I over-brighten all my pictures to where the look like shit on my display (iMac 17inch) so when I post them, other people with inferior displays wont bitch about my pictures being "too dark".

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