Green cast when uploading

Hi All,

A quick question on pp and uploading to my website. Pictures that I edit and then upload to facebook maintain the colours that they were intended to have when I edited them, however if I upload them to flickr or to my website they seem to have a green cast on them. Could anybody possibly help me rectify?

Matt

Post links?

tonylong wrote in post #15490783
Post links?

Here is a link to one that has come out slightly green

http://matthewbphotogr​aphy.com …7.html#photos_i​d=10713977

This is how it was intended:

http://www.facebook.co​m …4024010521&type​=1&theater

I see no difference between them using Chrome on Vista. The Facebook one looks as if it may be just a fraction brighter, but I think that is mostly down to the difference between the black and white backgrounds more than anything else. The Facebook one is bigger as well which also may be having an effect.

Alan

BigAl007 wrote in post #15490847
I see no difference between them using Chrome on Vista. The Facebook one looks as if it may be just a fraction brighter, but I think that is mostly down to the difference between the black and white backgrounds more than anything else. The Facebook one is bigger as well which also may be having an effect.

Alan

Hi Alan- thanks for this. Its really weird but I have just had a look in Chrome and you are right, the view looks exactly the same in both pictures, however when using Internet Explorer it does cast a green haze over the image outside of Facebook.

I have also printed portraity pictures off in the past that look far greener on paper than on my computer. Very strange!

They look the same in FireFox also

matttoofif wrote in post #15490902
I have also printed portraity pictures off in the past that look far greener on paper than on my computer. Very strange!

Printing is a black art! I have just received an order for a framed image I know will need a load of weird printer settings. I know they will work because I paid a printer genius to help me sort it out but even he admitted after we had figured it out that it made no sense.

You might expect an image that looks right on screen to print like that using "normal" settings, but thats far from the case in this case. Its the same with all the images from the same dawn session, but no others.

One of them has an embedded profile of ProPhoto, the other has a profile called "C2". I have no idea what C2 is, never heard of it.

But images for web posting need to be in sRGB colorspace. Otherwise, all bets are off on color matching because it depends on whether the viewing program is "color managed" and how accurate that program's color management is.

Color management with IE is pretty poor. I think you'd be better off using FF, Safari or Chrome. Firefox has the edge for me since they have a way to switch a "hidden setting" so that untagged images are handled properly. I don't believe Chrome or Safari have this feature yet.

Also, any images that you upload to the web should be sRGB, not ProPhoto or aRGB.

Bob_A wrote in post #15494287
Color management with IE is pretty poor. I think you'd be better off using FF, Safari or Chrome. Firefox has the edge for me since they have a way to switch a "hidden setting" so that untagged images are handled properly. I don't believe Chrome or Safari have this feature yet.

Also, any images that you upload to the web should be sRGB, not ProPhoto or aRGB.

Thanks for this- is SRGB a setting that should be applied when saying from TIFF to JPEG in Photoshop?

matttoofif wrote in post #15495003
Thanks for this- is SRGB a setting that should be applied when saying from TIFF to JPEG in Photoshop?

It applies to any image you upload to the web. So you do not need to save the image as sRGB unless you wish to use it generally. Doing it when you convert the image to jpeg when preparing the image for uploading is certainly OK.

matttoofif wrote in post #15495003
Thanks for this- is SRGB a setting that should be applied when saying from TIFF to JPEG in Photoshop?

I'm not sure what your workflow with your specific software is, but in general you want to Convert to a specific color space for a specific purpose. But since you are new to this stuff, I'd just set your software to sRGB for general purposes. You can start by setting your camera to shoot in sRGB, and then if you go through a Raw processor such as DPP, Lightroom, or Camera Raw, set it/them to work in/output sRGB. If using a Photoshop/Elements app, you can go to Edit/Color Settings to set up your working color space options.

For images you already have you may need to go to Edit/Convert to Profile to change it into the sRGB color space, although in Photoshop I believe Save to Web also gives you that option.

First image has ProPhotoRGB embedded, the one on FB has Facebooks "Tiny sRGB".
Use sRGB for web.

http://www.getcolorman​aged.com/color-management/saveforweb/

René Damkot wrote in post #15496909
First image has ProPhotoRGB embedded, the one on FB has Facebooks "Tiny sRGB".
Use sRGB for web.

http://www.getcolorman​aged.com/color-management/saveforweb/

Thanks for this. Just been trying to save some pictures as SRGB (using PS-CS2) and am going to edit>convert to profile then select e-SRGB but then the pictures show up very transparent. Obvioiusly Im doing something wrong and in the process I am getting very frustrated with myself. Is there a good place to go on the web to find some comprehensive steps on how to do it- the link above shows some steps from a later version of PS

I'm not sure what "e-sRGB" does but what you want is the sRGB shown here: