Hi everyone,
I did a website for a photographer and everything has worked out really well thus far.
The other day he mentioned that he tried adding some new photos to the site and, when viewing the uploaded pictures, he said that it looked like someone took the color saturation level from 100% to about 75%.
This has happened with all the images that’s he’s tried to upload since then. I’ve never actually heard of this happening so i’m not positive on what the problem could be.
After doing some research I read on a facebook forum that this was happening to some of the images due to compression however I’m not compressing the images at all.
There are a lot of images up there already. Is it possible that the site’s capacity is reaching its limit and the picture’s quality is being reduced autmatically?
I’d post my code but I’m really just taking the uploaded file from the form, renaming it after doing some validation and moving it to its final location using @move_uploaded_file
It might be a browser issue. What browser does he notice the desaturation in?
He uses IE but it only started happening recently as all the images before these ones don’t look desaturated.
It could be the colour pallet that is being used for the uploaded photos. There is an adobe and a web standard.
I aways export my photos from Photoshop to the web using the “convert for web use” option and not just save them out as a jpg.
After speaking with a friend he told me that it could be an issue with how the photographer is saving his images from Photoshop or Lightroom.
Apparently a loss of saturation or contrast may happen if you save your images in Adobe RGB and post them on the web. To fix this issue, he has to save the images in sRGB.
Here’s the forum post that my friend showed me:
Photobucket - uploaded images look flat/desaturated - Talk Photography
EDIT:
Sorry AgentHomes. I didn’t see your post when I made this one.
Thanks for your reply. I’m fairly certain that he’s saving his images improperly.