Image displays incorrectly!

I have this photo which looks absolutely fine when shown in Windows, and on Flickr, etc.

Here is a screen shot from Picture Viewer...

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com …end_the_light/5​648859624/

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com …end_the_light/5​648295531/

Is it possible that when you saved it you unintentianally saved it to a real small size? I wouldn't think that that would cause this noise, but something did. If I were you I'd go back to the original image and step through what you did -- something should "jump out" at you!

But it is fine on my computer, in one program, but not in another...it's a 7mb file, 300dpi, nothing strange at all...

Well, you can try resizing it to Web-size -- for Flickr and Facebook, try sizing it to say 800 pixels wide, for you desktop check your screen resolution and resize it to fit that (Web sites do resizing to fit their "standard"). See how that works and take it from their. Different sites will also compress file sizes, so you may also need to play with your Quality setting.

That looks like a really bad resize job. Resize the image to what you want it in Photoshop or another image program. 700 pixels for facebook, say 1024 pixels for your desktop.

For starters: Both images have AdobeRGB embedded. This is not related to your problem, but it is wrong. (The image looks oversaturated in my colormanaged browser)

You probably opened the screenshot in Photoshop, and have that set to use AdobeRGB as default RGB working space without ticking the "missing profile alert" tickbox. Or you copy-pasted the screenshot into a new document. That basically "assigned" AdobeRGB to the image.

http://www.getcolorman​aged.com …nagement/pscolo​rsettings/

What you see is probably caused because the image isn't sized to fit your screen, and the software you are using to view it does a horrid job resizing. If you view it at 100%, I'd suspect the image looks okay.

Thanks everyone. i had another look, and this is actually quite a large image for a JPEG and is probably being resized whereas others were not...I couldn't understand why a decent image was turning out bad, when "lesser" quality images were ok...

Cheers

Just for info, I resized using Save for Web to 1024px wide and it now looks fine. Obviously facebook and my desktop didn't like the size it was and resized badly.