Uploaded JPEG Photo Looks Muddy!

[allyanderson]

I'm trying to post a photo to my blog, but when I upload the file it looks muddy and the colours are desaturated (especially any red tones). This has never happened before this week....and now on two separate occasions the same has happened.

I store my blog photos on Photobucket and then copy the photo link onto my blog. I also uploaded the same picture to my Flickr account, and then tried a different photo on my Facebook page. They all uploaded the same muddy way.

But the weird thing is I downloaded the muddy photo from Photobucket to my desktop just to see what it would look like....and the downloaded copy of the file looked normal! So it only looks muddy online...

I just started shooting RAW....I do the edit in CS4, save as a PSD and then save a second copy as a JPEG. The previous photos I uploaded to my blog were shot as JPEGS, saved as PSD and then save as'd JPEG again. RAW is the only thing that I have been doing differently this week.

Does anyone have any suggestions why this might be happening?

[edward gage]

Hi,

Make sure you are saving the jpeg in SRGB colour space. I use photoshop and/or photo mechanic to do this.

That could be your problem

Ed

[GadgetRick]

Originally Posted by edward gage

Hi,

Make sure you are saving the jpeg in SRGB colour space. I use photoshop and/or photo mechanic to do this.

That could be your problem

Ed

Yes. If you're using Photobucket's Bulk Uploader, I've been told it compresses files. If you upload them individually, you should be ok. I upload to Photobucket in sRGB and they look fine. With Facebook, I learned there is no selection to upload in sRGB so my photos there look like that.

[allyanderson]

I wasn't using the bulk uploader...so that can't be it. Crap!

When I looked at the Exif data from the photos (that are uploading with muddy tones) the colour representation is "Uncalibrated." This was only on the Raw photos converted to jpegs. And I never saw anything to check off for sRGB when I was saving the jpeg.

I did look back at my photos that were initally shot as jpegs and the exif data for the colour represetation on thoses ones is "sRGB." So this must be the issue....but why are the Raw files converting as "uncalibrated?"

I have had Photohop (CS4) for about two months....so I know very little about it.

[teaking]

RAW files dont carry a colour space you only set one when converting to JPEG.

I think the guys who posted before are spot on with this one

[OsmosisStudios]

Originally Posted by edward gage

Hi,

Make sure you are saving the jpeg in SRGB colour space. I use photoshop and/or photo mechanic to do this.

That could be your problem

Ed

Even this may not help. Depending on what the host does with images, what browser the user is using or the operating system they're running, it can vary. Even sRGB isnt foolproof.

Just try uploading something to facebook