Color problem

Dues

Ive looked at some threads here at the forum, but cant really fix my problem.
When I preview my game on e.g my iPad 2 the colors look waaaay more bleached than they do on my computer.
I understand that my computer screen may be a bit better then my device , but is there a way to fix this? Can I preview in Photoshop in any way so I can get the right colors on my device? I mean other games or images display prefect colors, so is it GS in some way?

mounted88

How are you doing your images? Also are you using the color wheel in gamesalad to change your colors? Also make sure your resolution is set to 72 for each image.

You can preview your image in photoshop, but you can't preview the whole game in photoshop.

Dues

@mounted88

Yes 72 dpi
Png

What do you mean with changing colors i GS?

JPGamesFactory

Are you using RGB color profile in photoshop or illustrator ?
If you use CMYK can have difference of colors

Dues

@JPGamesFactory

Yup, RGB, its really strange :-?

jamie_c

I had a washed out graphics problem once with web players in some browsers. I was able to fix it by using actual .psd files as my graphics in Gamesalad.

Dues

@jamie_c

I'll try that and see if it works.

Dues

@jamie_c

Unfortunately that did not work either
Guess I'll have to live with it....

mounted88

I was talking about, when you open up a actor. Look at the actor information on the left hand side and you will see color. I believe it's right above the preload art box. Are you using that option to change the color?

jamie_c

@Dues, sorry to hear that.

jamie_c

You could always just try a crap shoot, if they look good on your screen but not on the device. Way oversaturate them on screen and see if they look any better on the device. It's random, but it would be interesting to see what happens.

Dues

@mounted88

No all my images are ready before I import them to GS, tried messing around with it but it didn't turn out too well

@jamie_c

Actually I did try that before, and it looked better, but not as I wanted.

It feels like I'm missing something

mounted88

Can you post a screen shot of your computer and off a device? That way we can see the difference.

Dues

@mounted88

I will try to do that

Dues

@mounted88

So I took a screenshot from my iPad and sent it to my computer. And well...they look exactly the same, so I can't post them here because there won't be any difference.
I guess its maybe because my Mac can display more colors then my iPad?

mounted88

Is there a way you can test it on someone else iPad? And compare that to your Mac. It might be your iPad?

Dues

@mounted88

I've tried it on my iPhone 4S and its the same problem there.

mounted88

I'm not sure then. I'm out of suggestions. Best of luck, if you figure out let me know

Dues

@mounted88

Found a picture of my problem, but it's the other way around, my ipad has the dull colors.

mounted88

Actually I like the red color on the iPad better than your computer screen :P

Does the iPad have any settings to change the color? Maybe tint or contrast anything like that?

JPGamesFactory

Seems to be a difference with color saturation. Do you have installed some apps that have option to change this default value?

jamie_c

maybe you need to adjust your monitors color settings, do some color calibration.

Dues

@mounted88
I do to unfortunately it's the ipad that has the "wrong" colors in my case (this picture isn't my computer and ipad)

@JPGamesFactory

Not that I can think of

@jamie_c

Then my colors will look boring on my monitor

Socks

The iPad 2 has a smaller colour gamut than a standard monitor, so colours will always look a little washed out, the hardware simply cannot show the same levels of saturation that a monitor can, but the colours shouldn't be too bad, just a little washy / undersaturated.

If you want your colours to look as good as they do on your monitor you'll need an iPad3 and (upwards), the difference between the iPad1/2 and the iPad3 is quite pronounced when it comes to colour/saturation.

@mounted88

I've tried it on my iPhone 4S and its the same problem there.

Same deal with the iPhone4 (see image above).

Dues

Thanks for the info @Socks !!
Then I know I don't have to go 8-} about this anymore.

Socks

Thanks for the info @Socks !!
Then I know I don't have to go 8-} about this anymore.

@Dues

Yep, it's basically normal to have some colour disparity between your monitor and older iDevices, whatever you do don't try and compensate for the lack of saturation, if you do you might get things to look a little better on older devices but then you will have the opposite problem on newer devices (crushed, clipped colours).

Dues

I'll remember that! Thanks for the advice!

mounted88

@socks good info.