What format to post in DPS from Flickr

[damian]

Hi all and thanks to the responses I got to my question about the various hosting sites. See Choice of online storage

Based on the majority opinion I have opened a Flickr account - a free one so far - although the unlimited uploads does sound pretty good value for the money. Anyway I just wanted to get started.

A number of posts on DPS speak of the differences perceived in the appearance of images depending upon the browser of the viewer and the format of the posted image. So I thought a little experiment might help.

I have created three saved versions of the same image from Lightroom 2.3. One is a "full size JPEG", one is saved as a TIFF in the sRGB colour space and one is a TIFF in the Adobe RGB colour space.

Here is the JPEG:


Here is the same image saved as a TIFF in sRGB colour space:


And finally here is the same image saved in the AdobeRGB space:


It will be interesting to view and compare these images in IE. I use Mozilla myself. I would be interested to hear any feedback about any differences perceived in the images. I want to try and decide on a format for Flickr posting. Maybe even get really adventurous and try building a preset of some sort to batch process images for uploading.

I hope this is the right spot for this post. I'm not asking for critique of the images as such, just the viewers impressions of the different formats.

Thanks in advance.

[fletch]

You should use sRGB for flickr uploads. I'm using IE6 (don't ask but I can't change it here) and it doesn't support colour profiles. The AdobeRGB looks dull and lacks contrast compared to the other two.

As for the TIFF I wouldn't use them for upload to the web due to the size. There isn't any benefit over using JPEG here unless you were using flickr as a backup and I wouldn't recomend that.

[damian]

Thanks fletch.

I opened the web page in IE. I have to say that all three images look cooler - that is bluer not more "chic" - on IE than on Mozilla. There is a very clear drop off in Adobe colour space in IE; flesh tones have become near to grey. But I see a similar drop off in Mozilla browser. Maybe a fraction less so. sRGB clearly is the winner on this image.

[Nicole]

I agree with Fletch about the TIFF files. As far as how the photos look, well, to my eye (in both Firefox 3 and Safari) they all look pretty much the same. But that's just me.