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09/14/2006 08:13:22 PM · #1 |
I'm pretty sure I've seen this addressed in the forums before, but I can't find the threads that do so. Does anyone else see DPC lightening their photos upon uploading? This only seems to have started happening for me in the last couple weeks, where I get it looking just right in PS and upload it to find it much too light. Flipping back and forth between the open file in PS and the photo page on DPC confirms the difference. I end up having to make the image darker than I like in PS so that it will be lightened to the right level upon uploading. I'm editing in 8 bit RGB color after a RAW conversion, so there's no weird color profile stuff going on. Weird problem, I think. Any ideas?
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09/14/2006 08:20:04 PM · #2 |
Originally posted by karmabreeze:
I'm pretty sure I've seen this addressed in the forums before, but I can't find the threads that do so. Does anyone else see DPC lightening their photos upon uploading? This only seems to have started happening for me in the last couple weeks, where I get it looking just right in PS and upload it to find it much too light. Flipping back and forth between the open file in PS and the photo page on DPC confirms the difference. I end up having to make the image darker than I like in PS so that it will be lightened to the right level upon uploading. I'm editing in 8 bit RGB color after a RAW conversion, so there's no weird color profile stuff going on. Weird problem, I think. Any ideas? |
Are you saving your work as sRGB when you get ready to post on DPC? This can make a big difference.
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09/14/2006 08:20:45 PM · #3 |
Is it just lighter on DPC?
For example does it look the same in PS as it does say Windows Picture Viewer, or other viweing programs or websites?
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09/14/2006 08:22:14 PM · #4 |
I have not run into this, but I don't believe DPC is making any changes to the image. An easy way you can confirm this is to re-download (right-click and save as) one of the problem images from DPC, and open the downloaded copy in Photoshop. If it looks different from your online version (and the same as the original), then DPC is not the issue.
~Terry
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09/14/2006 11:13:13 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by ClubJuggle:
I have not run into this, but I don't believe DPC is making any changes to the image. An easy way you can confirm this is to re-download (right-click and save as) one of the problem images from DPC, and open the downloaded copy in Photoshop. If it looks different from your online version (and the same as the original), then DPC is not the issue.
~Terry |
Yeah, that's what's so strange. I don't think DPC is actually changing anything either (that was poorly worded on my part), and in comparing a redownloaded version they look exactly the same. I edit and save everything in RGB, and I see no options for sRGB in the Mode menu in PS 5.5. If there's a difference between RGB and sRGB I don't know what it is or where to change that option.
The only explanation I can think of doesn't even necessarily make that much sense since I'm talking out of my arse: the standard light grey background for DPC is a lighter color than the standard slate gray background in Photoshop, so if the bg color is seeping through somehow (matting.. is that the right term for it?) then that could account for the difference.
Message edited by author 2006-09-14 23:13:56.
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09/15/2006 01:04:25 AM · #6 |
Originally posted by karmabreeze:
The only explanation I can think of doesn't even necessarily make that much sense since I'm talking out of my arse: the standard light grey background for DPC is a lighter color than the standard slate gray background in Photoshop, so if the bg color is seeping through somehow (matting.. is that the right term for it?) then that could account for the difference. |
IMO you're actually close to the target with that, except there's no "seepage". Pictures look different depending what color/value gray they are displayed upon, definitely. Prove it to yourself by making an image in PS and then cloning off a copy of it. Put a HUGE black border around one and a HUGE white border around the other and take a peek :-)
R.
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