Color Issue

indeed. i just test pinned your image (and deleted it afterwards), the colours are browner and muddier. i read somehwere that pins are converted from srgb to adobe rgb, i think that might be the issue here?

Hmmmm - I wonder how this could be addressed if that in fact is the issue?

It would be helpful to the discussion if you stated the color space. RGB or sRGB?

Ummm....I thought the images here were supposed to be Adobe rgb? You can convert your image color profile in any photoshop editor (I use Elements 11)

Unfortunately I am not at home at the moment but I will verify this once I am at my computer - but I believe the color space I have everything set for is sRGB. As I said - will verify that it hasn't been changed.

Thanks!

Melinda, which browser are you using?

Some Internet browsers are color managed, and some are not. I know that IE was not, for many years. I no longer use it, so don't know if that has changed.
Firefox is color managed. I'm not sure about Chrome, Opera, Safari, etc.

Google 'browsers color managed' to learn more.

In the meantime, you might try checking your problem spots on a different browser.

The problem of color shifts from browser to browser, is just one of the many reasons it's so difficult to sell art online, IMO. No matter what we do, we have no idea what potential buyers might be seeing. :-(

I just took a look at the image "Powder Pink" - you've uploaded it in the ProPhoto RGB color space. Fine Art America will take either Adobe RGB or sRGB, but not any of the other available color spaces.

You can edit in the color space of your preference but when you get ready to save for your file to upload to FAA, you need to pick one of those. :-)

This same issue comes up on the forum every so often, right down to the exact same color shift when pinning to Pinterest. And every time I've looked, the image has been uploaded in ProPhoto.

Great catch, Mark!

I've never used ProPhoto, as none of my sites request it.

Thanks - this one didn't really take any detective work - I have seen it before. I just verified it was in fact ProPhoto.

I use ProPhoto up until the point I get ready to upload and then switch when I export as JPEG. I know few (if any?) sites use it but I look at it as future proofing. I keep my original files with the full color information (or at least MORE color information) and reduce it to what FAA, etc. can handle.

I don't see a reason to toss out the rest of that color information early in the work process.

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/prophoto-rgb.shtml

There's even a caveat at the end about letting Prophoto files escape into the real world. ;-)

Not ignoring anyone - just have not had an opportunity to follow up on this but hopefully will be able to do so soon. Thanks for all of the comments. Mark, could you tell me where - by looking at the image on the site here - you were able to tell that it was uploaded in the ProPhoto RGB color space?

Thanks!

Melinda

Yeah Mark? I tried to do that one time with an image, but I couldn't see anything that would tell me that, this came up before and I think it was you that confirmed another image here....

Well - that was the culprit - that particular print - along with one that I had previously had a problem with - were set to ProPhoto RGB - why - who knows. But at least now I'll know what to look for.

Thanks a million!

Thank you Mark. I've been trying to find out why this happens since I finally noticed it on Pinterest. When I switched to Photoshop CC (had been using PS CS5) I thought it asked to whether I wanted to keep the same color profiles, but they aren't the same as my CS5 settings. I have a lot of re-saving to jpg and repining to do (sine last Nov.) No wonder I hate change! GRRRRR!