Losing color (edits?) when uploading to Facebook

[Artaud]

Hi all,

I'm a forum newbie and a hobby photographer, getting a little more serious these days.

I shoot with a Canon 40D and tweak in CS3.

In uploading pics to Facebook, I seem to lose almost all the edits, bar cropping. Is all my faffing about with hue and levels for nothing?

Obviously Facebook uploading involves a lot of quality crunching, but I shouldn't imagine it was this bad!

Here's a simple example of what I'm talking about:

My edited image, as grabbed from my desktop:
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=123tt0x&s=5

And how it appears when uploaded to Facebook:
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2iaes0z&s=5

Anyone have any hints or suggestions?

Cheers!

Gib

[pixelzombie]

it could be that facebook is stripping any color profiles in your original file...

[bonnylass]

I have no problem at all with facebook
so sorry cannot help

[Artaud]

Thanks guys.

Some additional info:
* I have tried taking a grab (using Mac's Grab program) of the edited file and posting that to Facebook to no avail.
* I have tried saving and posting the file as .PNG to no avail.
* I have tried posting from Aperture using the Facebook plug-in to no avail.
* I have not tried posting from a different computer. I have a PC somewhere that I could use.
* I've noticed that my dodge and burns and crops seem to be translating, just not the colour or level info.

I guess it could be a Facebook bug/temporary problem. It's no big deal, seems as it's just friends that will be seeing the Facebook versions, it's just annoying.

Cheers,
Gib

[Macint0sh]

This is probably because you lose the color profile somewhere on the way.

Open your image in photoshop, go to edit, and colorprofile--choose convert to. You'll probably see that you're working with the AdobeRBG color profile. Choose sRGB (somewhere up top). Click OK, and your file is now in sRBG. Try uploading the picture again, and you'll see the color you intended.

[Artaud]

'Tis true, Mac!

The original colour tweaks were in AdobeRGB. I'm pretty sure I changed it to sRGB for the final save, but I'll give it another go from the start and see if that's the cure for what ails me.

Cheers!

[0lBaldy]

If you are shooting large images.. Resize your image to around 800 px then use "Save for Web" (Alt+Shft+Ctrl+S) click the little circled triangle near where optimized is checked... then enter 100 in the pop-up.. click "OK" then click "Save" and rename the photo to anything other than the original name.. Use this copy of your picture for "FaceBook"
FaceBook will reduce the images further.. to well under 100k and the long side to around 604 pixels

[William Wilson]

Your uploaded image to Facebook has your monitor profile Color LCD info that's where it's going wrong use srgb.

[Artaud]

Thanks again, all.

My camera was set to shoot in AdobeRGB, which was indeed the root of the problem. Using OlBaldy's method and a couple I found around the 'Net, I've lessened the problem somewhat.

Cheers!

[adsfadfs]

I realize this topic is dead but I had the same problem recently and fixed it by converting the color profile in Photoshop to "Color LCD" instead of "sRGB".
(Pictures look great on fb now.)
Changing the size, etc.. doesn't affect the color so try changing your image in PS to Color LCD and see if that works

[Algarve Images]

Originally Posted by Artaud

'Tis true, Mac!

The original colour tweaks were in AdobeRGB. I'm pretty sure I changed it to sRGB for the final save, but I'll give it another go from the start and see if that's the cure for what ails me.

Cheers!

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Never had any problem with facebook colour, it's just standard windows srgb
An easy way to check your image in PS is to> view proof set up and click windows RGB.
I shoot adobe 98 in camera and my workspace in PS is the same, just convert to srgb for anything going to the web, also use "standard windows colour" "preview menu" when using "save for web and devices"
Gary...

[ShaiY.]

Hi,

It could also be your browser.
Some browsers don't use the colour profiles that are stored in the images.
Safari actually acknowledges the profile and displays images correctly.

Using sRGB is the best way of 'working around' the problem.

The issue comes back in the day when web design first started out and they wanted pages displaying similarly on all computers.

This is a bit of a problem for photographers though.

Hopefully all browser developers will start including colour profile recognition in their software soon.

All the best!

[Quantum3]

Before uploading to web, make sure you convert your files to sRGB by using the relative colorimetric intent set to sRGB 2.1