Uploaded Photo Quality

stirlsilverstirlsilver Registered Users Posts: 15 Big grins
edited June 6, 2010 in SmugMug Support
Hi All,
I just uploaded a few photos from a recent trip to thailand, Normally I am very happy with the way the photos look on the site. But this time... they don't look like the originals I uploaded!

Does anyone know what is going on? I've uploaded hundreds of photos and always post processed them the same way.

Some examples:

There are light paches around each one of the point sources of light - they aren't present in the original JPG.
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Black is shown as a dark purple where the water is
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Anyone have any idea on what is going on?? :scratch

By the way - I view the site using Firefox and my monitor is calibrated.

Thanks,
Stirling

Comments

  • stirlsilverstirlsilver Registered Users Posts: 15 Big grins
    edited June 4, 2010
    Figured it out...

    Photos looked OK in IE but not in firefox, I then discovered that firefox has a colour profile manager. Since I have a SpyderExpress I just disabled the Firefox colour profile manager and problem solved!

    Stirling
  • jfriendjfriend Registered Users Posts: 8,097 Major grins
    edited June 4, 2010
    stirlsilver wrote: »
    Figured it out...

    Photos looked OK in IE but not in firefox, I then discovered that firefox has a colour profile manager. Since I have a SpyderExpress I just disabled the Firefox colour profile manager and problem solved!

    Stirling
    When disabling color management fixes something, that is a sign that the color configuration of your system is messed up. You WANT browser to be color-managed because that means they are using your monitor profile to display accurate color.

    If turning color management off in Firefox gives you better results that's only because you've now created two somewhat counter-balancing errors in your system. It is not because your system is now properly configured.
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  • stirlsilverstirlsilver Registered Users Posts: 15 Big grins
    edited June 6, 2010
    Hi John,
    Thanks for the info. You are probably right there. I once tried to load the colour profile created by my SpyderExpress3 using the windows vista manager, but it wouldn't let me. So I resorted to just letting the software that came with SpyderExpress set the profile. I'm not sure if the problem occured because I have SpyderExpress software running and setting the profile??

    I read in numerous places that windows vista hasn't implemented the colour management properly, the SpyderExpress just patches this by forcing the profile to load... or something.
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