Pictures Look Grey

  • I don’t know if this happens to everyone, but my pictures look really grey once I upload them to my blog. They are very high quality (taken with a Canon EOS Rebel T2i, so I know it’s not my camera’s fault).

    Is there any way to fix this?

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  • Moderator cubecolour

    (@numeeja)

    Can you provide a link to a page containing an affected image on your blog and the same image hosted elsewhere?

    Thread Starter thecommunaltable

    (@thecommunaltable)

    Please go to this link.

    When you just look at the first picture, it looks very grey, but when you click on the image and it goes to the uploaded file (just the image shows in the window), it looks like it looked when I uploaded it, which isn’t grey)

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    Because those are 2 different images:
    – One that is grey
    – One that is not

    Moderator cubecolour

    (@numeeja)

    I checked the images in Adobe Bridge. The original image has an embedded Adobe RGB colour profile, however this is stripped out of the resized version. This is probably why they do not display the same in browsers that respect the colour profile.

    I would suggest looking at whether exporting the images with the sRGB profile instead of Adobe RGB before uploading to WordPress might be a workaround.

    Thread Starter thecommunaltable

    (@thecommunaltable)

    Sorry, I’m very new to wordpress, so I have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about…

    Thread Starter thecommunaltable

    (@thecommunaltable)

    Andrew Nevins…

    I know. They look like they’re different images, but they’re not. When I view the picture I took in iPhoto, it looks like the “One that is not.” When I upload it to WordPress, it looks like the “One that is grey”

    Moderator cubecolour

    (@numeeja)

    The colour profile is nothing to do with WordPress. see https://viget.com/inspire/the-mysterious-save-for-web-color-shift for an explanation of how it can affect images displayed on the web. The problem is that the colour profile in your original image is set, but being ignored by your browser, When WordPress resizes the image the colour profile is stripped out so the image looks different.

    Thread Starter thecommunaltable

    (@thecommunaltable)

    Thank you for the link! Do you know how I would go about fixing it if I don’t have Photoshop?

    Moderator cubecolour

    (@numeeja)

    It depends what image editing software you have available.

    I tend to use pixelmator more often than photoshop and that has colour management features.

    It looks like the open source (& free) gimp allows you to manage colour profiles in images: https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-imaging-color-management.html

    Sorry to “butt in” here… but gimp is pretty awesome!

    I typically use Photoshop… but for all my peeps who don’t have access to the premium software, I always recommend gimp.

    I’ve heard nothing but positive feedback.

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