Image Posting Saturation Loss?

[TitusvileSurfer]

I just posted an image of my best friend ROYGBIV in another thread. I've always noticed stark saturation differences between what the image looks like in Digital Photo Professional (Canon software) or Photoshop compared to the result posted to Photobucket and displayed here. Any thoughts on how to combat this other than over-compensating saturation for web use?

To likely answer my own question, I shoot Adobe RGB (1998). I think this is where I am picking up discrepancy.

 

[TitusvileSurfer]

What it looks like in Photoshop:

What it looks like after Photobucket:

I guess I need to convert to sRGB?? I dunno

 

[wkahwkah]

do you have pro acc? for me, if I put higher pixel than 1024 x 768 and try to upload to Photobucket, color washes up just like yours did.
so when I upload photobucket, I always resize to 1024 x 768 in photoshop so when it gets upload it won't resize which won't change color on the pic.

 

[IPT]

ding, ding, ding. sRGB for web. Still, I do that and find I need to add a touch of saturation to get ot where I want online. You're on a calibrated monitor?

 

[TitusvileSurfer]

Embarrassingly no...no calibrated monitor. Prints come out true to the monitor though, so I've always been content with it.

 

[IPT]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15260207#post15260207 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by TitusvileSurfer
Embarrassingly no...no calibrated monitor. Prints come out true to the monitor though, so I've always been content with it.

LoL - if my prints matched my monitor I would have saved the cash too.

 

[Blazer88]

Use sRGB and what you see on your monitor will look the same on web, Adobe RGB won't display properly on the web. I ran into that problem a few years ago.

 

[ReefingBuddha]

I have had the same problem and it has been driving me crazy. Both contrast and saturation loss when I upload to photobucket. Good to know the reason why and how to fix it. Thanks!


I have not noticed the same problem with my smugmug gallery but then again I guess it doesn't reduce the uploaded image size either.