Viewing differences

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I have recently encountered a probolem when viewing photos.

When I view them in PS for editing then compare them with what they look like in Windows Picture viewer they look the same. However, when I use them as a desktop background they are much duller and have lost a lot of the vibrancy/saturation. Also on some website they look very dull compared to the original as viewd in PS or windows viewer, but not all.

I have checked using my work computer as well and get the same thing. It seems strange and I have never encountered this before but just with the latest batch of photos.

I shoot in Raw and convert to JPG for uploading or as desktop backgrounds.

Prints seem fine as well.
 
Sounds like a familiar problem.

Are you saving the JPEGs (for uploading or for use as a desktop background) with sRGB colour profile? If not, then do so.

if you're using AdobeRGB, ProPhotoRGB, or some other profile, then it will be ignored by many other apps, such as Internet Exploder, and the colours will look wrong.
 
Musicman said:
Sounds like a familiar problem.

Are you saving the JPEGs (for uploading or for use as a desktop background) with sRGB colour profile? If not, then do so.

if you're using AdobeRGB, ProPhotoRGB, or some other profile, then it will be ignored by many other apps, such as Internet Exploder, and the colours will look wrong.
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Thanks I think this is likely to be the problem as I switch to using Adobe RGB a couple of months back but only recently uploaded files to website and used one as a desktop.
 
Unfortunately windows doesn't pay attention to the colour profile whichever one you use.
IE doesn't either. Safari and Firefox do, not sure about Chrome.

It's down to the apps themselves to read the colour profile. But sticking with sRGB is safest as it's read by most apps.
 
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