Colors and brightness off when uploading photos

[davelipchen]

<p>When looking at my submitted pictures the colors and brightness are off. What am I doing wrong?</p>

 

[Former P.N Member]

<p>Sounds like you might be using a color space other than sRGB. If you upload photos in, say Adobe RGB, they loose color and contrast when displayed in most browsers.</p>

[Spearhead]

<p>Also, make sure your browser is color-managed or has color management turned on.</p>

[ffrank]

<p>Jeff.... do you mean a color managed "monitor" instead of browser? I have the same problem when uploading. My photos always lose their pop and I have always attributed it to the bright background Photonet uses. I do have a calibrated monitor and edit in Adobe 1998. I always convert to sRGB when saving the jpeg file. I edit them using a dark gray background in PS. After uploading to Photonet the color and contrast are greatly diminished with the very light grey back light when viewing. Is there any way to select a background when viewing photos on this site?<br>

Thanks</p>

[lex_jenkins]

<p>The problem may be due to your browser. Even with an embedded sRGB profile I still get visibly different results in different browsers. Try the following in more than one browser. For example, I get radically different results when comparing Firefox (ver 26.0, at the moment), Chrome (ver. 31.x) on a Win7 PC, and the Silk browser for Amazon's Kindle Fire HD. Generally Firefox works best for me on photo.net.</p>

<p>Try a few tests to see if this helps:</p>

<ol>

<li>Prep a horizontal/landscape oriented JPEG at 680 pixels wide, maximum. Upload it to this thread, or to photo.net's <a href="/test-posting-forum/">Test Posting Forum</a>. Upload the same JPEG to your photo.net portfolio.</li>

<li>Prep another 1500 pixels wide. Repeat step 1. (The larger JPEG will appear only as a link on the Test Posting Forum).</li>

<li>Compare the two within the context of the default pages.</li>

<li>Then open the same photos in another browser window or tab using the "view image" (Firefox) or "open image in new tab" (Chrome). Compare the results.</li>

</ol>

<p>You may see very different results, depending on the browser and other factors.</p>

<p>I'll attach some samples of a photo that may show dramatic differences between browsers. It's a barbed wire and chain link fence against a recent sunset with brilliant red clouds. In Chrome the red is desaturated and, on photo.net, I see some ugly JPEG compression artifacts and halos around the wire. The same photo appears fine in Firefox, including the version uploaded to my photo.net portfolio. The Silk browser view is inconsistent. The thumbnail appears desaturated, but the full views appear okay.</p>

<p>Here's the 680 pixel wide version in my photo.net portfolio, dragged and dropped to this post. It may appear stretched due to rescaling to the 700 pixel width limit for the discussion forums. Opening the photo by itself in another tab/window should show it at 680 pixels wide:</p>

<p><a href="/photo/17630372&size=lg"><img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/17630372-md.jpg" alt="Barbed wire sky fire" width="679" height="450" border="0" /></a></p>

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<p>Here's the 1500 pixel wide version in my photo.net portfolio, dragged and dropped to this post. It will probably be rescaled down to fit the forum's 700 pixel width limit, and may show some jaggies/aliasing. Opening the photo by itself in another tab/window should show it at the original 1500 pixel width.</p>

<p>To me, this version of the same photo appears slightly more magenta via Firefox, compared with the above version. And the full 1500 pixel wide version does not appear at all in Chrome - I'm seeing only a reduced, degraded version. I can't figure it out and don't have the patience to mess with Chrome, so I use it only for non-photo related Google stuff like checking Gmail:</p>

<p><a href="/photo/17630372&size=md"><img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/17630372-lg.jpg" alt="Barbed wire sky fire" width="1500" height="994" border="0" /></a></p>

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<p>And I'll attach a 1500 pixel wide version directly uploaded to this thread, just in case there's any difference from the version attached from my photo.net portfolio. I see some inconsistencies at times, but cannot explain why.</p>

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