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p.1 #1 · Bludomain Colors Washed Out

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.

Thanks,
Bludomain Support Team

Sep 23, 2008 at 05:30 AM

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p.1 #2 · Bludomain Colors Washed Out

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?

Sep 23, 2008 at 05:43 AM

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p.1 #3 · Bludomain Colors Washed Out

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 am in AdobeRGB.

Sep 23, 2008 at 06:04 AM

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p.1 #4 · Bludomain Colors Washed Out

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.

-tmiller

Sep 23, 2008 at 06:06 AM

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p.1 #5 · Bludomain Colors Washed Out

How badly washed out are they? Can you post examples

Sep 23, 2008 at 06:11 AM

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p.1 #6 · Bludomain Colors Washed Out

TigerLord wrote:
How badly washed out are they? Can you post examples

Below are some images I have on my homepage slideshow. The difference in color is significant to me.

This image is copyrighted by the owner

Sep 23, 2008 at 06:28 AM

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p.1 #7 · Bludomain Colors Washed Out

Look pretty ok to me... but I'm picky as it sounds you are. Give em all about 5% saturation and a small constrast boost.

That's it, should be better after that.

-tmiller

Sep 23, 2008 at 07:15 AM

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p.1 #8 · Bludomain Colors Washed Out

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

Sep 23, 2008 at 08:02 AM

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p.1 #9 · Bludomain Colors Washed Out

try changing your color profile to: sRGB IEC61966-2.1

I tried that and I think it looks a little more accurate for the web.

Sep 23, 2008 at 12:30 PM

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p.1 #10 · Bludomain Colors Washed Out

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.

Sep 23, 2008 at 02:56 PM

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p.1 #11 · Bludomain Colors Washed Out

Convert to sRGB for web, not aRGB.

Sep 23, 2008 at 03:33 PM

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p.1 #12 · Bludomain Colors Washed Out

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.

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Sep 23, 2008 at 04:36 PM

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p.1 #13 · Bludomain Colors Washed Out

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.

Sep 23, 2008 at 04:50 PM

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p.1 #14 · Bludomain Colors Washed Out

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.

Thanks, Ryan!

Sep 23, 2008 at 04:55 PM

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p.1 #15 · Bludomain Colors Washed Out

Hey Tim,

Your images are incredible, great web site too.

Mike

Sep 23, 2008 at 05:35 PM

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Jazzman wrote:
Hey Tim,

Your images are incredible, great web site too.

Mike

Hey Mike, thanks for the very kind words! I appreciate it.

Sep 23, 2008 at 07:44 PM

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p.1 #17 · Bludomain Colors Washed Out

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.

Oct 08, 2008 at 11:31 PM

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p.1 #18 · Bludomain Colors Washed Out

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.

Oct 08, 2008 at 11:38 PM

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p.1 #19 · Bludomain Colors Washed Out

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.

Oct 08, 2008 at 11:52 PM

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p.1 #20 · Bludomain Colors Washed Out

This is very very good info!

Oct 08, 2008 at 11:55 PM

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p.1 #21 · Bludomain Colors Washed Out

switch to sRGB for web viewing.

Oct 08, 2008 at 11:55 PM

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p.1 #22 · Bludomain Colors Washed Out

Ray Soemarsono wrote:
switch to sRGB for web viewing.

They have been switched to sRGB, but they're still washed out.

Oct 09, 2008 at 12:03 AM

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p.1 #23 · Bludomain Colors Washed Out

Sergio Mottola wrote:
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.

The inconvenient thing is that I also display my web images on sites other than, and the colors are fine there, so now I need to create a separate action just for blu...oh well.

Oct 09, 2008 at 12:04 AM

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p.1 #24 · Bludomain Colors Washed Out

I've posted in other forums and people are telling me that it looks the same to them, so I'm going to try and recalibrate my monitor and check them out again.

Oct 09, 2008 at 12:55 AM

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p.1 #25 · Bludomain Colors Washed Out

mieng saetia wrote:
I've posted in other forums and people are telling me that it looks the same to them, so I'm going to try and recalibrate my monitor and check them out again.

Believe me, I'm not seeing things. Images are definitely more washed out. Let me know what you find out.

Oct 09, 2008 at 01:17 AM


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