Calibration - Pics look different online than in windows

[mgk1966]

<p>I have my monitor calibrated with a spyder2express. For some reason, as you see in the picture below, my pictures look differently on my smugmug site than in windows/photoshop/thumbsplus. Does anyone know why this would be?<br>

<br />Thanks,<br>

Matt</p>

[mgk1966]

<p>with screenshot</p>

[mgk1966]

<p>try that again</p>

[mgk1966]

<p>#4</p><div></div>

[martin_howard1]

<p>Check what colour space the image is saved in, Internet Explorer assumes images are sRGB and will translate them as such, leading to differences when displayed from the original image.</p>

[monika_epsefass]

<p>Most browsers work on sRGB, not just IE.<br>

Do you shoot in Adobe RGB? You'll have to <strong>convert </strong> into sRGB (not just save in sRGB). It's in Edit - Convert to Profile - [profile].</p>

[juhaniv]

<p>To my understanding IE just ignores the color profile. Even photos that are in sRGB are not displayed correctly unless the monitor profile happens to be exactly the same as sRGB - which I assume is fairly unlikely.<br /> Firefox 3.0.x does handle color management correctly. You just have to turn on the color management on in the configuration. (about:config -> gfx.color_management.enabled; true) Firexox 3.5 changed the color management engine, and that broke the functionality at least with my monitor profile - maybe it works with some other setups.</p>

[Tim_Lookingbill]

<p>If your LCD is one of those that has a wider gamut than sRGB, somewhere around NTSC or AdobeRGB, AND your sRGB converted images aren't viewed in a color managed browser or viewer, then the image will have this color shift because your wide gamut LCD is showing the sRGB numbers through its color space.</p>

<p>You can emulate the effect you see in that third shot in Photoshop by viewing your sRGB converted image in your monitor's space by assigning your Spyder2Express made profile or going into Proof Setup under the View menu and selecting Monitor RGB. </p>

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[mgk1966]

<p>I'm shooting in srgb. Then editing in Lightroom and exporting in srgb. So it leads me to think it is not a color space issue? Thanks</p>

[mgk1966]

<p>Something is screwed up on my end. They look different in Photoshop than they do in Lightroom. What could be the reason for that?</p>

[arkady ten]

<p>Did you check color settings in PS?</p>

[mgk1966]

<p>It looks correct (like it looks in Lightroom) when I set to sRGB. It looks wrong (like it looks online) when I set to monitor (spyder2express).<br>

What will the prints look like?<br>

<br />Thanks</p>

[arkady ten]

<p>Matthew,<br>

PS and LR is different!? Hm? You may try a verification step. Take an image (tiff or jpg) that is known to be in sRGB with sRGB profile attached. Bring them in PS (I assume that preserve embedded profile policy is set) and LR, compare. If they are still different and you can't find anything suspicious in PS color settings try run profiling/calibration again. Remember the name of the profile. After profiling verify in screen properties that the profiled installed in the system is actually correct one. See the sRGB image again.</p>