washed out color when uploading to website

[egosbar]

im experiencing a very different picture when i upload here, the colors are very washed out and they are grainier a bit

any ideas here would be much appreciated

 

[egosbar]

this might do it ill see in my next upload

http://support.clickbooq.com/index....es-look-washed-out-managing-color-for-the-web

 

[egosbar]

nope although it improved marginally , what im seeing in an uploaded pic here is a long way from the pic im looking at in photoshop

 

[Tom Mann]

1. There was a similar thread here on PSG just a few days ago. Scroll down to my 1st posting in that thread.

2. Only color problems were discussed in that thread. However, you also mentioned that your images were "more grainy". That's a separate problem. In fact, it's not actually grain you are seeing, but compression artifacts from the forum uploader software. To save space and reduce the time it takes to display a forum page, they have it set to produce highly compressed versions of images that you upload.

In other forums, if you down-rez your images to a small size and compress them yourselves, the forum software won't modify your image -- it will just pass it along unmodified. If that's the case here, I haven't found the magic conditions for it to happen, so I just live with it and urge viewers to click on the thumbnail to see the actual image.

3. The link you posted is certainly on the right track by suggesting that you only post in sRGB, however, should you want to continue to do most of your post-processing in, say, ProPhoto or Adobe RGB, you can convert to sRGB as the next to last step before saving a copy as a JPG. Instead of their suggestion to manually change the working color space and then manually add some saturation, use the Edit / "Convert to profile..." command and set the target color space to sRGB.

HTH,

Tom M

 

[egosbar]

1. There was a similar thread here on PSG just a few days ago. Scroll down to my 1st posting in that thread.

2. Only color problems were discussed in that thread. However, you also mentioned that your images were "more grainy". That's a separate problem. In fact, it's not actually grain you are seeing, but compression artifacts from the forum uploader software. To save space and reduce the time it takes to display a forum page, they have it set to produce highly compressed versions of images that you upload.

In other forums, if you down-rez your images to a small size and compress them yourselves, the forum software won't modify your image -- it will just pass it along unmodified. If that's the case here, I haven't found the magic conditions for it to happen, so I just live with it and urge viewers to click on the thumbnail to see the actual image.

3. The link you posted is certainly on the right track by suggesting that you only post in sRGB, however, should you want to continue to do most of your post-processing in, say, ProPhoto or Adobe RGB, you can convert to sRGB as the next to last step before saving a copy as a JPG. Instead of their suggestion to manually change the working color space and then manually add some saturation, use the Edit / "Convert to profile..." command and set the target color space to sRGB.

HTH,

Tom M

ok i uploaded at 800 pixels and washed out until clicked on ,i uploaded a 500 and it was fine , so i think ill upload at 500 and if you click on it it magnifies so all good

here is what i was seeing the small pic are the colors i like , i wanted a vivid color pic for the sea and coral
http://www.photoshopgurus.com/forum...y-feb-14th-cupid-v2-0-a-7.html#post1533624430

dam this is weird , i can click on the two larger images and the color is good when they open , but the smaller picture where the color is good but image smaller i cant open inside this forum for a larger image , any ideas here