All my photos on my bludomain site look washed out. Does anyone else have this problem? Any good solutions? I've contacted blu, and they replied (after several weeks) with the email below. Thanks for any help on this matter.
Tim
Email Response from Bludomain:
Color shifting occurs when viewing images on the web because you are going
from regular photoshop colors to web safe colors which means going from
millions of colors to thousands. To minimize this color shift it is best to
use a color profile of sRGB before color correcting your images. If you
still find there to be a color discrepancy you may need to over saturate
images to compensate.
TigerLord wrote:
My guess is you are shooting RAW, and shoot in the ProfotoRGB profile, and forgot to convert your finished photos to AdobeRGB before saving the JPEGs?
I noticed this a long time ago (I've been with Blu for their templates only, I host elsewhere). I copy the images I want into a special folder, and break then down by galleries, etc... I edit them independently of the regular files. I typically boost my contrast a touch and watch the bulk uploader closely, as it does wash images out just a slight tad. 3-6% I'd say.
for a while i would host random stuff just to post online on imageshack without ever actually inspecting the image before pasting the URL. i figured it would just translate perfectly. one day i actually compared and was like =-o
If you normally edit in AdobeRGB, you'll colors will look bad on the web. Create a custom action that you can apply to a batch of images that will convert them to sRGB before you get your final JPGs to upload.
All you need your action to do is:
-Edit->Convert to Profile->"Convert your profile in this new pop-up box to sRGB, and have the Adobe engine selected and PERCEPTUAL selected".
If you use the "perceptual" conversion, it will not look any different (for the most part). Run this action before you upload.
Thanks for all your help! I changed aRGB to sRGB in Bridge. I also did what sboerup suggested.
The colors better than before, especially the skin tones. They're still slightly dull, but definitely better than before.
Is it better to change aRGB to sRGB in bridge at the beginning, or should I leave it in aRGB and then convert the web version according to sboerup's recommendation? I guess I'm wondering if I should leave the "print" version in aRGB.
Leave the print version in the widest colorspace you can. You can always convert to a smaller colorspace, such as sRGB, but you cannot regain what you lost going backwards.
Ryan Britton wrote:
Leave the print version in the widest colorspace you can. You can always convert to a smaller colorspace, such as sRGB, but you cannot regain what you lost going backwards.
mieng saetia wrote:
I'm having the same problem as Tim. My pictures look really washed out on BluDomain even though the pictures have been saved at sRGB.
I don't think oversaturating the image is an acceptable solution. I sent in a ticket and was told there was nothing they can do. Horrible service.
I agree, mieng. We shouldn't have to do extra processing work on top of everything else. This is really a disappointing aspect of blu.
its like this with livebooks too and any program that displays pictures in flash. just up the saturation by about 15 points when you resize for blu. i made an action that resizes to the correct size, adds saturation, and sharpens.
