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I love this pic.  Can’t quite put my finger on why…  But I really like it.

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Many of you are techs, some of you are photo nuts.  Of late I have started having troubles with the photos I’m uploading to the net.

I shoot in raw, adobe rgb, post process in CS3, save as a JPG.  On the computer that JPG seems to look fine.  When I upload this to flickr or picasa the vibrance of the picture goes away.  All of the colors are muted.

Anyone have thoughts?  I’m getting frustrated on this one.

***update***  I took roughly the same picture with roughly the same edits in both sRGB and Adobe RGB, and BOTH had the colors screwed up when I uploaded thos pics to flickr.

One thread on flickr suggested unticking all the boxes when you save as jpg, this did not help either.

The below shots, I switched to sRGB, and shot in RAW + JPG mode so it was the exact same capture just saved in both formats on the camera.  I did not edit either of them, just saved them both as JPG’s with a quality of 7 so they both had the same compression and degredation levels.

Shot as RAW saved as JPG

Shot as JPG

Here are a few more examples of an upload of the same photo.  When I do most of my photo management in Bridge.  But this time I imported the pic into iPhoto to see what would happen.

Through Picasa uploader in iPhoto

Uploaded manually via web to Picasa / Exactly the same if through Picasa Uploader app

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So I saw a pic of a guitar on flickr so I figured I would bust mine out and give it a shot.  I think this one is my favorite, it is Diana’s for sure she just doesn’t like all the “crap” around it….that crap being my living room…  There are a couple other shots of the neglected instrument in my flickr photo pool.

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What the duck

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I still have tons and tons to learn…  I shot everything tonight in RAW.  But when I did my post processing the pics looked great.  When I saved them as JPGs to upload, they lost some of the punch that they had before they where saved as JPGs…  Oh well, more to learn.

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