Screenshots where black appears as dark gray. Cant find a solution!

[Kwaakt]

Hello everyone,

I noticed that, when I take a screenshot with steam the dark blacks appear as gray in photoshop. Im searching for an hour right now but cant find the solution for this. Anyone that knows a solution?

Thanks in advance!
Kwaakt

[Kwaakt]

well, I managed to fix the "darks" by using photoshop itself. But its strange that a screenshot appears different in photoshop in the first place. Either windows or the game itself is displaying the blacks darker then they should be or my monitor is rubbish. If someone still knows a solution for it in the first place it would be nice!

[God, owner of the Universe]

What game(s) are you talking about? And does the image seem correct in Windows, too (e.g. in Firefox)? Sounds like it from what you said. Couldn't it be that Photoshop's color settings are wrong? Though it's odd that you can adjust this to actual black then with the normal image tools ...

Could you upload an example, e.g. to imgur.com?

Btw.: I don't know how it is with current games, but it was pretty normal with older 3D games that the graphics were calculated for linear gamma (Seeming too dark on normal monitors.) and then adjusted so they look correct on screen. (Almost all computer screens have too dark gamma. All images on the Web, for example, have too bright gamma, exactly fitting the too dark gamma of the screens.)

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[Kwaakt]

God, owner of the Universe님이 먼저 게시:

What game(s) are you talking about? And does the image seem correct in Windows, too (e.g. in Firefox)? Sounds like it from what you said. Couldn't it be that Photoshop's color settings are wrong? Though it's odd that you can adjust this to actual black then with the normal image tools ...

Thanks for your respond.

Example one DayZ http://imgur.com/mMTmNmV
up is the screenshot in windows and the view I had ingame. Low is in Photoshop. Basic the wholo image seems to be more grayish but its most visible at the tree's


Example two CS:GO http://imgur.com/a/9hJP9
Left is windows and ingame. right is windowns and iname, left is photoshop.
Slightly harder to see. But still visible.

[God, owner of the Universe]

I can't see what the problem is with these images. There's very dark areas, but they are not black, but why should they be black? They just have little light, not no light (incl. omnipresent ambient light) at all. Most of all, they look almost identical to me between the whatever-that-is version and the Photoshop version.

[Kwaakt]

Thats the issue.. There is a big difference on my screen. Maybe not on yours. But why does it displays both at the same time. I was planning to buy a calibration device for my screen anyway. Since Im using it alot for editing pictures. Then Im sure the picture is just good viewed at other devices aswell.

[Sidney]

Obviously games will never have pure black (except for pixel art games). But that's not to say that the images aren shifting colors. I took a screenshot of blender with the background color set to #000000 (true pure black) and the screenshot after opening in photoshop and putting it beside pure black wasn't pure black anymore.

I assume this is due to 1 of 3 things, LUTs / ICCs / Color Profiles the software use. This is also not just the case for creative software, as games that run in game engines have the same LUT / Color Profile systems.

[Kargor]

Epicrex님이 먼저 게시:

I assume this is due to 1 of 3 things, LUTs / ICCs / Color Profiles the software use. This is also not just the case for creative software, as games that run in game engines have the same LUT / Color Profile systems.

Feels like a PEBKAC issue. To date, all my screenshots appeared just fine when viewed within Steam, or when uploaded to an image site and viewed in a browser.

If "professional" software messes up the colors, chances are it's some color profile -- you probably have to tell the software what profile the image uses, because it's probably not recorded in the file and the software guesses wrong. If a software doesn't use color profiles, they'll just take the "0x00 0x00 0x00" color (aka black) and render it as "0x00 0x00 0x00"...

[John]

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