Smugmug upload washing out photos

rthompson10

Hello all,

I just uploaded a photo album into smugmug. Some of the pictures do not have the same "setting/quality" of the original JPEG- Washed out-lighter.

My process: Edited RAW pix in LR, export as JPEG, SRGB, 300DPI setting to another folder, then use smugmug to upload

Any thoughts on this

THanks!

RT

leftquark

Would you be able to send us a link to the gallery so we can dig deeper?

rthomps

leftquark wrote: »

Would you be able to send us a link to the gallery so we can dig deeper?

Here is one of the pix in question- Thw "washed-out version" is what shows up in Smugmug, the other version is the JPEG I posted- what I see on my screen

rthomps

rthomps wrote: »

Here is one of the pix in question- Thw "washed-out version" is what shows up in Smugmug, the other version is the JPEG I posted- what I see on my screen

The jpeg version that I uploaded

Case1

I have a similar problem and I'm pretty sure it's caused by some color management shenanigans - if I save the photo with color space info attached, it ends up washed out on SmugMug, even when the photo is in sRGB. If I don't attach the color space info, the photos on SmugMug are exactly the same as I see them in my editor. I assumed it is a problem with the editor (I use Paintshop Pro), since I didn't see anyone mention it before and I figured people would notice this pretty quickly, so I just don't attach color space info to my pictures as a workaround. Maybe I was wrong to assume that?

leftquark

Hi rhtomps, thanks for posting screenshots, but without links to the images, I cannot troubleshoot this issue. Would you be willing to provide me links to the images? feel free to send me a direct message if you're not comfortable pasting it in here.

Lille Ulven

Just an idea...but rhtomps have you checked your photo in other browsers on that machine (and screen) than IE? Preferably Firefox? This because it might be - and for what I have come across it looks like it - that IE is not fully color managed, so IE won't (necessarily) take you screen calibration into consideration as Lightroom does. This could result in a different display of your photo in LR versus IE while for example in Firefox, which is supposed to be fully color managed, you'd be seeing the same as in Lightroom.

Good luck

Lille Ulven