Colorspace issue?

PopeBuckfastXVI

Hi All,

I downloaded a photo from my website to do a quick and dirty edit in picasa today and noticed something odd. The colours are totally flat, very dirty looking, on the downloaded file, nothing like the original file that came out of photoshop. Even when viewed on the website it's totally fine, and the thumbnail preview in windows is fine. It's weird, I'm guessing it's some sort of colorspace issue, I've seen this happen before but this is the first time I've been able to nail it down with screenshots:

From Site (How it should be)


In Picasa (How it shouldn't be!)


Tell me I'm not the only one who sees a difference between these two!?

Anyone any ideas how I can make sure this doesn't happen, I'd be very worried about prints, for instance.

FWIW I have a Pantone Huey Pro on my processing machine, but not on the one I'm currently sitting at. Though I won't pretend to know a huge amount about colorspaces.

milos

I have had this sort of problem for a long time. Often the picture on the screen in cs6 is totally different in colour to the printed image or the picassa image.
I use a samsung tv for my monitor so calabrating it is not possible.
Most times I just try to compensate for the difference by sight and hope for the best.

challengemaster

PopeBuckfastXVI wrote: »

Tell me I'm not the only one who sees a difference between these two!?

If you are, then everyone else has red/yellow/cyan colour blindness. There's a huge difference there.

Never used picasa though, so I can't help much.

ScumLord

Maybe there's some type of compression sneaking in there somewhere either from the server or from windows during download.

Is it just in Pisca the image looks different after download? Maybe that has a colour profile that can be changed? Is the image a different size after it's gone up on the server?

PopeBuckfastXVI

ScumLord wrote: »

Maybe there's some type of compression sneaking in there somewhere either from the server or from windows during download.

Is it just in Pisca the image looks different after download? Maybe that has a colour profile that can be changed? Is the image a different size after it's gone up on the server?

Same in Windows Viewer, Picasa and Paint.net.

It's the same size file, if I download it at home it'll be the right colours, I'm pretty sure.

Sometimes I see this on my laptop too. It's weird, I suspect it's something to do with the Colour Space: Unknown tag in Picasa there, I think it should be in sRGB but I don't know enough about all that to know for sure!

mdebets

Have you switched on color management on picasa?

PopeBuckfastXVI

mdebets wrote: »

Have you switched on color management on picasa?

Bingo!

A million thank you's!