Photos loss vivid colors when uploaded online

Why do photos always look so much better on your computer than when they get uploaded? The red's and green's I notice mostly have some color pulled from them and look dull online. How can you get a photo uploaded and have it still look like it does on your computer?

I do not the answer to this, because my photos look the same. When I view the photos on my computer via viewing them on my website or uploaded to facebook or anywhere else. My photos on my computer, viewing from my monitors look the same.

You could have a color profile setting on your monitor that's different from the internet's default viewing profile of sRGB IEC61966-2.1

Another reason could be you're saving your shots in an AdobeRGB color space or something other than sRGB, in which case it'll look fine when viewed in photoshop, but colors get clipped when uploaded online as sRGB.

If you're using Windows Vista or Windows 7, here's how to check your monitor's settings:

1. From desktop, right click and select "Personalize" from pull down menu
2. Select "Display Settings"
3. Click on "Color Management" tab and access Color management menu
4. Go to "Advanced" tab. On the "Device profile" pull down menu, select sRGB IEC61966-2.1
5. On "Viewing conditions profile" pull down menu, select for sRGB viewing conditions

If you're using Photoshop, or any other editing program that is colorspace sensitive, I'd make sure it's working and saving in sRGB when outputing photos for the internet. In photoshop this is found in the "Edit" menu as "Color settings"

Let us know if this helps out
-Nick

Yasko wrote: You could have a color profile setting on your monitor that's different from the internet's default viewing profile of sRGB IEC61966-2.1

Another reason could be you're saving your shots in an AdobeRGB color space or something other than sRGB, in which case it'll look fine when viewed in photoshop, but colors get clipped when uploaded online as sRGB.

If you're using Windows Vista or Windows 7, here's how to check your monitor's settings:

1. From desktop, right click and select "Personalize" from pull down menu
2. Select "Display Settings"
3. Click on "Color Management" tab and access Color management menu
4. Go to "Advanced" tab. On the "Device profile" pull down menu, select sRGB IEC61966-2.1
5. On "Viewing conditions profile" pull down menu, select for sRGB viewing conditions

If you're using Photoshop, or any other editing program that is colorspace sensitive, I'd make sure it's working and saving in sRGB when outputing photos for the internet. In photoshop this is found in the "Edit" menu as "Color settings"

Let us know if this helps out
-Nick

That would be correct nick. It's a matter of different color spaces.

Scotty wrote:

Yasko wrote: You could have a color profile setting on your monitor that's different from the internet's default viewing profile of sRGB IEC61966-2.1

Another reason could be you're saving your shots in an AdobeRGB color space or something other than sRGB, in which case it'll look fine when viewed in photoshop, but colors get clipped when uploaded online as sRGB.

If you're using Windows Vista or Windows 7, here's how to check your monitor's settings:

1. From desktop, right click and select "Personalize" from pull down menu
2. Select "Display Settings"
3. Click on "Color Management" tab and access Color management menu
4. Go to "Advanced" tab. On the "Device profile" pull down menu, select sRGB IEC61966-2.1
5. On "Viewing conditions profile" pull down menu, select for sRGB viewing conditions

If you're using Photoshop, or any other editing program that is colorspace sensitive, I'd make sure it's working and saving in sRGB when outputing photos for the internet. In photoshop this is found in the "Edit" menu as "Color settings"

Let us know if this helps out
-Nick

That would be correct nick. It's a matter of different color spaces.

I guess I have mine correct wooohooo