
Originally Posted by
Michael Gerald-Yamasaki
Cheryl,
Greetings. I had something of the same problem (new computer, upgrade to CS5, different jpeg output, sigh). Can't exactly say what I did to return to prior (& it may be different for you) but I had some PS Color Settings issues, Color Profile issues, & attaching profile issues that I worked out & am now happy with the output. I have LR in the mix & there were complications there.
Anyway, in short I'd recommend looking at resetting the various fields in the Edit->Color Settings panel in CS5 to what you had in CS4 and in particular check that the ICC profile on export is what you want & attached. What you describe sounds like, perhaps, AdobeRGB Working Space image which is exported without a profile attached. The most browsers color manage now but can't without the profile attached, so some default web profile is used and the image tends to look flat with decreased contrast.
Good luck (this kind of problem tends to be headache inducing).
Cheers,
-Michael-