PS CS/XP show pictures differently

[hobey19]

i have been creating some wallpapers lately, and when i create them in photoshop cs, they look exaclty how i want them too, however, when i set the jpeg as my desktop, or even just view the jpg in the viewer, the colors are noticeably different. ie, i was making one with a blue background, and it came out a lot lighter. i had to bo back into PS and make the image considerably darker to achieve the color i wanted. even when i open the jpg in PS, it looks like i orginally wanted it to, so its not a format change. is there anything i can do to correct this? thanks

craig

[Statica]

Do you have the Adobe Gamma Loader running on your computer? Sounds to me that the ICC profile embedded in your image is different from your monitor.

[hobey19]

how would i go about checking for this. guess i never really knew about adobe gamma loader

craig

[hobey19]

never mind, i figured it out, and you are right. i got it looking a lot better. thanks a lot

craig