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 01/15/2005 09:26:48 AM · #1
Hi,

I just joined dpchallenge this morning - looking forward to getting into it.

My problem is that when I save as JPEG to upload, my pictures look much flatter - undersaturated. What's the best way to correct this? Should I just boost the saturation by say 20% before saving as JPEG?

Also, this may be a daft question, but how to I browse all of the images in a user's portfolio?

Thanks for the help,

Lewis

Message edited by author 2005-01-15 09:29:36.
 01/15/2005 09:34:04 AM · #2
Hey Lewis, welcome to the mental ward!

If you're using Photoshop to prepare your images, are you using the "save for web" option? If so, you ought to be able to get results that are pretty closely matched in appearance to your original edited file. You may also have to futz with your monitor calibration (search for the forums for threads about that topic).

To browse a portfolio, you have to either keep clicking the "back" button to get back to the thumbs or open each image in a new window. As of now, the site doesn't give you "next" or "previous" buttons to make browsing easier.
 01/15/2005 09:40:33 AM · #3
Originally posted by strangeghost:
Hey Lewis, welcome to the mental ward!

If you're using Photoshop to prepare your images, are you using the "save for web" option? If so, you ought to be able to get results that are pretty closely matched in appearance to your original edited file. You may also have to futz with your monitor calibration (search for the forums for threads about that topic).

To browse a portfolio, you have to either keep clicking the "back" button to get back to the thumbs or open each image in a new window. As of now, the site doesn't give you "next" or "previous" buttons to make browsing easier.


I use "save for web" in Elements but the results are always less saturated, not a whole lot, but some. To be expected I guess when you consider the number of colours PS can produce as opposed to the number a web browser displays. Can't quote it off the top of my head but there is quite a difference.
 01/15/2005 09:48:58 AM · #4
Given the loss of information when saving a file down to <150K, there's bound to be some loss, but I've always been very happy with the appearance of my web images and have not had to overcompensate color saturation prior to saving for the web. Then again, I've not really seen my photos displayed on too many different monitors. I have Macs at home and a PC at work. As long as they look good on the PC too, I'm assuming I'm OK.

Originally posted by orussell:
I use "save for web" in Elements but the results are always less saturated, not a whole lot, but some. To be expected I guess when you consider the number of colours PS can produce as opposed to the number a web browser displays. Can't quote it off the top of my head but there is quite a difference.
01/15/2005 09:57:44 AM · #5
Hiya,

Thanks for the tips.

I am using PS. It must be something to do with my colour management settings. I'll have a fiddle with it and see what happens. I just hope all my images aren't now edited relative to my current monitor calibration!

The browsing thing was that I could only see the 'Highest rated' and 'Recently added' images - I couldn't see how to browse a user's collections?

Ah well - I'm sure I'll learn it all soon enough.

Thanks for the help.

Lewis
 01/15/2005 09:59:43 AM · #6
Try Mode>Convert Profile and convert to sRGB (if you're not using it already). Save for Web doesn't do this automatically, so if you're saving, say in Adobe RGb, your images, while appearing nice on your monitor, will be flat once they're uploaded to the web. Converting to sRGB will make sure they stay as close as possible to how you see them. This drove me nuts for ages until I worked it out.

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 01/15/2005 10:00:45 AM · #7
EddyG's tutorial is pretty good also Lewiss. //www.dpchallenge.com/tutorial.php?TUTORIAL_ID=26
 01/15/2005 10:03:52 AM · #8
Originally posted by Anjella:
Try Mode>Convert Profile and convert to sRGB (if you're not using it already). Save for Web doesn't do this automatically, so if you're saving, say in Adobe RGb, your images, while appearing nice on your monitor, will be flat once they're uploaded to the web. Converting to sRGB will make sure they stay as close as possible to how you see them. This drove me nuts for ages until I worked it out.


Perfectly put - do this and your problems will vanish.

01/15/2005 10:06:07 AM · #9
Excellent!

Just as you guys were posting, I found this: //www.gballard.net/psd/saveforwebshift.html

After converting to sRGB, before saving, everything looks a LOT closer to what I expected.

Now, going to resave all these.

Thanks everyone!
 01/15/2005 10:24:53 AM · #10
Originally posted by lewiss:
The browsing thing was that I could only see the 'Highest rated' and 'Recently added' images - I couldn't see how to browse a user's collections?

Ah, when viewing someone's profile, look at the four portfolio shots you can see, and click on the text "recent portfolio additions" and that will take you to that user's entire portfolio.

It's not too intuitive and I think it's on the list for changes when the web site is redesigned.
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