oh sure, now yer showin me up.

haha, j/k. I think you've gotten the likeness pretty good there. 

Thanx Emily, tried all sorts of subtle stuff to make it pop, gonna call this Finnished and post in Gallery as well as PNG and Jpeg versions here for my own comparison.

Here is the PNG:

 This looks well better on my screen. what do you think?

A finnished Finn ! ( Couldn´t resist that one... ) Very nice portrait, Martin !

Th PNG seems to have better contrast...Is PNG a better quality format for the web ?

PNG is meant to be better quality than JPEG as it doesn't try and compress the image, basically it is just me using the Mac's screenshot facility. Shift + apple + 4.

Every time I saved for the web using PS's own function it seems to wash out the colours.

pixmaker:

try assigning the srgb profile to the png.  see how that looks. 

Is that when saving for the web?

Is this what you mean?

It makes the image quite dark!

yea thats what i mean, but this is an issue thats been bugging me, everyones monitor is different. 

when you painted it, did you paint it in that mac RGB Mode, cause under the view menu, > view > proof colors, you can paint in a 'simulated' different mode.  you can see what your image will look like in CMYK, or just C M Y or K and you can see what it looks like in windows RGB and Mac RGB.    

its complicated.