Why the $^%#! are my images looking so RED on Facebook?

Looks correct to me, at least with what I'm seeing in PS.

Various versions of Firefox handle color management differently. Also, FF cannot read v4 profiles so when calibrating your monitor its best to create v2 profiles to get accurate colors. Is your calibration based on ICC v2 profiles?

Have you checked the color management settings with FF? While CM might be turned on, the variables work differently between FF 3.4 and FF 3.5 so that's one place to check.

Posting a "Saved for Web" image really wouldn't tell you anything; especially since this one has the metadata stripped.

Where are the CM settings in FF? I don't see anything under options

Type "about:config" without the quotes in the Navigation bar.

Then type gfx in the Filter bar to narrow down the options to color management.

What number is gfx.color_management.m​ode set to? 0, 1, or 2?

C.Steele wrote in post #9140829
Where are the CM settings in FF? I don't see anything under options

You have to tell firefox (can't remember right off how) that you want it to use your calibration profile. The last photo you posted looks the same as the FB one to me. Reds too saturated. Before you make yourself crazy you might keep in mind that very few if any of your potential clients on facebook are going to be viewing with a color managed system.

Set to 2

But you still haven't said which version of Firefox you're using and whether your calibration is done in ICC version 2 or version 4.

See this link, especially the comments, for clarification on the use of version 2 profiles. Firefox 3.5 does NOT read ICC version 4 profiles: http://hacks.mozilla.o​rg/2009/06/color-correction/

queenbee288 wrote in post #9140858
You have to tell firefox (can't remember right off how) that you want it to use your calibration profile. The last photo you posted looks the same as the FB one to me. Reds too saturated. Before you make yourself crazy you might keep in mind that very few if any of your potential clients on facebook are going to be viewing with a color managed system.

Sure, I understand that. My concern is that I'm putting out files that are messed up somehow. What I mean is if I know I'm uploading files that are true and correct, I'm fine if their system isn't representing them correctly. That part is out of my control.

The issue is why is that file looking red to you and others on calibrated monitors when it looks fine to me? I can tell you that I didn't do anything in post that would have saturated the reds like that. That image only has a slight vibrance boost, a small tone curve, blacks adjusted, etc. Not sat boost at all and certainly nothing that would have pushed the reds up that far.

I'm using FF 3.5.5 and ICC is done in V2

What if you use IE/Safari to view them online. Thinking maybe firefox is to blame.

PixelMagic wrote in post #9140870
See this link, especially the comments, for clarification on the use of version 2 profiles. Firefox 3.5 does NOT read ICC version 4 profiles: http://hacks.mozilla.o​rg/2009/06/color-correction/

Ok I checked out that link and I see the purple box within the purple box. I scanned through the comments and it seems that FF is operating correctly if I see this? If so then it has to be something else correct?

Like queenbee288 said, the last image you posted, matches FB, and matches your blog, as far as saturation. Also, I loaded it in FireFox(still same iMac), and it matches Safari, as I would expect.

Though, no way of knowing right from wrong, or what your intended look is, because can't be sure what you're seeing on your monitor vs mine. Since we're both calibrated, it should be the same, but I'm still confused as to why its different from what you're seeing while working in PS.(if its not a calibration issue, or color space conversion/setting issue). I assume your last posted image looks to you like it does while you're working on it in PS, but to me it has more Reds than what you posted in as your PS working image.

I have an idea, lets try this. Here is the same image straight from LR. Maybe we can see if PS is messing something up this way.

*Edit* This looks the same as the one I posted from PS above, which for me is correct and doesn't have too much red. Does it look any different for any of you?

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Ok, I looked at FB and my blog in IE and they both look the same - red as hell. We know that IE is not color managed so this would mean that what we are seeing in FB is a non color managed image. Right? So does this mean that FB does something to not allow images to be color managed?

Still too red. I opened your photo in PS and it is still too red there also. Using the info tool the red channel is 238. Seems a little high but I am not expert. To make it look normal to me I had to adjust saturation of red -10 to I also viewed it in IE and it was too red there also. I also looked on your blog. Looks too red there to me also. I use eye one display also. What monitor do you have? There are some post processors around that really know the numbers for skin tones ect. The numbers in PS is where the true color will be.