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Limp Colours When Posting to Web????

Thu Mar 26, 2009, 3:03 AM
I've noticed a few people saying that their images are devoid of colour when posted to DA - this isn't a DA problem (for once;)) and is due to the web in general not being able to read colour-profiles in images.

Lot's of your dSLRs and compacts will shoot and open images as ADOBE RGB, which is a great 'colour-space' for print, BUT the web can only read sRGB colour data (or at least render it).

So how do we rectify this??? It's easy (if you have ANY version of Photoshop - simply go to EDIT>convert to profile>sRGB IEC61966-2.1
Try it and re-upload any photos/images you were unhappy with.

PS make sure you use convert to profile and NOT assign profile which is a different thing altogether.

Hope this helps

A

PS Keep leaving posts on the 'What's in a Name' journal - it is great to read.

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=WildRainOfIceAndFire Mar 26, 2009, 3:23:22 AM
or save for Web Devices :aww:

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*andrewfphoto Mar 26, 2009, 3:27:48 AM
yes, but you still specify which colour space don't you? and it strips metadata so images don't contain copyright info and can fall fall of any future 'orphan' laws.

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=WildRainOfIceAndFire Mar 26, 2009, 3:34:12 AM
yes, i do find the metadata stripping problematic. you are right.

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~narabia Mar 26, 2009, 3:43:19 AM
But some web services do not work well with Adobe profiles.
I found it when uploaded a colorful image both to dA and Redbubble at the same time.

Here is my jounal regarding this:
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still learning :D

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`larafairie Mar 26, 2009, 4:00:37 AM
I used to have this since i've been shooting raw and using tiff. I make sure I keep ONE file (the master file) in full quality TIFF, then make a web version with Save>save to web and it usually is fine :)

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~jannickefish Mar 26, 2009, 5:08:27 AM
Thanks, I know many people have this problem.
I used to have this too, but since I got aware of it I've always been checking the photos that I snapped in RAW before posting them. But even though they are sRGB, the colours in the photo are really bad when I upload them to the Internet! :confused: I even save the files in "save for web", but it doesn't help. I always have to boost the colours and contrast really much to make the photos look good.
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=jklebphoto Mar 26, 2009, 5:20:04 AM
Many casual users also don't calibrate their monitors. This can lead to some color shifting when different computer view the same image.
There's some other save options if you use Lightroom as part of your workflow too. You can save low res jpegs with just basic copyright metadata imbedded.
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*Weavle1990 Mar 26, 2009, 9:36:29 AM
Thanks For The Info :D

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~julienpier Mar 26, 2009, 11:44:48 AM
I only keep two files: One uncompressed, with all layers aRGB PSD (PSD has way less compression than Tiff so less loss in quality) and one Tagged, flattened, sRGB for the web.

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