Washed out image

Anyone notice posted images are washed out. I recently posted an image that appeared washed out in

relation to the file on my computer (the same file used in both cases). I open the file in Safari and it

looked the same as the file did in PS. However, it looks washed out in my portfolio.

 

Please let me know if you have any suggestions.

Alex, in looking at your portfolio , your images look a little dark and over saturated on my computer. I would say that 99% of the photos on PN look good on mine , maybe your monitor is set differently.All your photos are consistent looking on mine , I just think you are using a different base line. Nice photos in your gallery by the way.

Alex, do you save your images with a color profile other than sRGB? if so, the PN software will take that profile away. The resulting image will have a wrong color rendering.

 

Always save your images as sRGB jpegs if you intend to upload them to PN.

Actually, the advice to use the sRGB color profile applies to all images uploaded to web sites. Web browsers, except on the Mac, ignore color profile information in the images and assume sRGB.

This is the problem with Macs. Everything works great "in-house" but when you go to the Windows world things get weird. I knew about the differences in gamma but I use Safari and it worked fine.

 

Thanks again for the tip.

 

Alex

Well there are two problems with Mac browsers. The first isn't really a problem but you have to be a aware of it, and that is because they support the color profiles in the image, you can forget that a color profile other than sRGB is going to look different on every other browser in the world (except for another Mac browser) because all other browsers ignore the actual color profile in the image and assume sRGB. If it isn't actually sRGB, then this assumption is going to make the image look wrong, or at least different.

 

And the second problem, at least on Safari, is that if there is no color profile in an image at all, the browser does not assume sRGB, the way every other browser on the planet would, but it assumes that the image has the the color profile of the monitor on that system. That is most probably a wrong assumption, since a web image that has no profile is most probably in sRGB.

 

So, the support for color profiles that should be a benefit of Mac browsers, indeed a unique benefit of the Mac, becomes a liability and a problem.