• Photographs change colors when uploaded
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Okay, so here's a bizarre and [I]incredibly[/I] annoying problem that I've had for quite some time. I'm posting it here because I have no clue what's causing the problem. So, basically once I've saved a photograph I've taken and upload it the colors change. When it's saved and I view it in image preview/photoshop whatever, it has these colors: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/dYBYO.jpg[/IMG] Note: I got it uploaded in the correct colors by screencapping the preview window in microsoft preview. Here's the colors it ends up with after I've uploaded it to imageshack/dropbox/photobucket/anything else; [QUOTE][img_thumb]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/44722719/Test.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE] Ideas?
I'm not a professional, I'm just guessing, but it might actually be the other way around. The windows preview looks lower quality to me, so you might be seeing the wrong colors before you upload it.
No, that's just the screencap quality. I found the problem: Adobe has it's own RGB-sceme it adds when exporting from Lightroom to Photoshop. I got around the problem by saving as JPEG/PNG in lightroom first, then opening in Photoshop; [IMG]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/44722719/GiantGeese.jpg[/IMG]
See if there's an "export" button rather than a simple save button.
It isn't bizarre. It's a pretty common and simple problem, once you understand what colour profile (also known as colour spaces) are for. You're shooting in either sRGB or AdobeRGB, and you have photoshop set to ProphotoRGB. To save a massive explanation, without any document open in photoshop, go to edit, color settings, then set the working profile to the same profile you're shooting on your camera, then uncheck the boxes near the bottom that are about asking what to do if profiles are mismatched, etc. Once that's done, if you want to publish images to web without the colours changing when viewed in a web browser, you need to convert the images to sRGB (if it's not already sRGB) using absolute colorimetric intent, through the "edit>convert to profile", then save the image to jpg using the save to web tool, and embed the sRGB ICC profile (check the box) and uncheck the "convert to sRGB" box. That should be it. Edit: Assigned ProphotoRGB to your 2nd image, colors changed to the correct ones, this is definitely the problem. Publish images to web using sRGB, and nothing else, unless you want the colors going unmanaged. Just remember to convert the color profiles correctly, not using the save for web sRGB converter.
[URL="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/44722719/Test2.jpg"]Much appreciated buddy.[/URL]
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