Image Upload Problem - Colour Distortion

JamieM

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I am having a problem with certain photographed images. When uploaded to Google Merchant Centre for example, the colour red is being distorted to a horrible brown.

This is the original image:

adultred.jpg


After uploading to Google it shows like this:

DSoVIkaxp7Q2G0ZyktQa9fAzLUofPsxithhxQ6wSHDuaGbWCdEEVtmsOKG68K7iW4qpzJs5OYu7fAqEjq-tvvGnLjo6wWRxzs1XSXzsc4y6aeTS4d9dVeNDZJ24nMbYSsqTyoW85BNbO1Xg6=s220-c


The same thing also happens with the uploader in my ecommerce software. Other colours are affected but red is probably the worst. Any ideas why this might be happening?
 

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One possibility is that the image has been saved with a colour space other than 'sRGB'.

So it's not Google or your ecommerce software that is causing the problem, but that the browser doesn't understand the colour space for the image it is displaying.

I believe that Safari on a Mac is better with colour spaces, so that might be a quick test of whether colour space is the problem.
 
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Hi,
Try saving without a colour profile... When you are in Photoshop use the option "Save for Web" and then upload the file. Colour profiles take up an enormous amount of space...please let us know what happens!
Hope it works!
Malcolm :)
 
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JamieM

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One possibility is that the image has been saved with a colour space other than 'sRGB'.

So it's not Google or your ecommerce software that is causing the problem, but that the browser doesn't understand the colour space for the image it is displaying.

I believe that Safari on a Mac is better with colour spaces, so that might be a quick test of whether colour space is the problem.

Thanks. I'm on a Mac with Safari but I'm not sure how I would do that test?

Hi,
Try saving without a colour profile... When you are in Photoshop use the option "Save for Web" and then upload the file. Colour profiles take up an enormous amount of space...please let us know what happens!
Hope it works!
Malcolm :)

Thanks. I don't have Photoshop but I'll ask my web designer if he can try this. I tried having a look to see if there was anything I could do in Pixlr Editor but even when I opened the image in there it was brown.
 
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It's almost certainly in aRGB (adobe RGB) which is a wider colour gamut for print use.

As said change in Photoshop. It just needs convert to profile sRGB which is better for web, save to web will do the same. It's actually a slightly smaller colour space, but doesn't throw up browser problems which can't recognize it.
 
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OPen in PS and use View>gamut warning and you will see that almost the entire image is out of gamut.

Never ever ever us 'Save for web'. It wipes the metadata which according to an IPO spokesperson is illegal. (But no photographer can find the penalties).
 
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That's fine then:)

The other thing to bear in mind (when buying software) is that for 90% of photographers is that Photoshop is unnecessary. Elements can do most things as well.

Lightroom is also a great stand alone program if you are not a great PPer and is superb for workflow. It even builds on line galleries to publish.
 
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Yes I second lightroom.
My general workflow is shoot tethered to lightroom and do basic adjustments within lightroom and then for any major editing it gets finished in Photoshop (I know I can do most of what I need in raw import of PS but I prefer lightroom).
Elements is a good program if you are on a budget but as CS2 is free can't get cheaper than that :cool:
 
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