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You learn something new everyday, installment 2.

Epiphany!

I was having a color management crisis while photoshopping pictures. I'd edit them on my laptop, and they looked great. But then I'd look at them on this hi-res 23" monitor I got for Christmas, and they looked all yellow. Then, to compound the problem, whenever I saved a photoshop document (.psd) as a .jpg and opened it in Windows Explorer, bleh--color and contrast all washed away.

Solutions:

I re-calibrated the colors on my new monitor. It still displays colors a little differently than my laptop, but I realized that the comparison of one to the other makes the discrepancy seem way more dramatic than it is. I also learned that different browsers can make images look a little different.

More importantly, I read this article: tips for managing web color in Photoshop. I highly recommend reading it if you use the program at all.

Joy!!!!!!! I showed them machines who's really in charge here.