Color correction?

[limaz]

Hi.
Today I tried to upload a new version of one of my shots, I've gotten some pointers on it and have implemented some of these.

Here's the catch...

AS I upload I notice that the color is really different from the picture I just saved. I open it in every viewer I have and send it to other pc's in the house to see if there is something wrong with my computer. And it looks ok.
I try and upload it to Te ( asuming that the thumbnail is wrong), but the shot comes out heavily desaturated.

Has anyone come across this problem before? Does anyone know what may be causing this?
I would love to hear some ideas as I can't upload shots that don't look like what the shot I took.

Cato

[limaz]

I jUst noticed that the color scheme here corresponds to my Microsoft Paint but it is very wrong compared to Photoshop cs2 where the shot was edited and saved...

[Didi]

Yes but we must see your picture before giving advice.

[limaz]

This is a link to the shot, the new version is posted as a WS...



http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/photo447701.htm


Thanks for having a look

[limaz]

I figured it out:)

The original image was not background layer in the original version ( don't ask me why).

I used the layer>new>layer from background... function, so that I could make a frame.
This caused some type of problem when saving, I don't know what, but it discarded the color changes I made.

The solution was to copy the image into a new document of the same size
(ctrl+a, ctrl+c, ctrl+n , Enter, ctrl+v).

I then saved it and voila..., it worked.

[AdrianW]

I suspect you have a colour profile loaded under Photoshop, which alters the way colours are displayed - unfortunately most web browsers aren't profile aware. So when you look at the picture in (say) IE, the colours are too pale.

Solutions: Use SaveForWeb, don't include the profile in web images and always test in a browser before uploading.