I am setting up my website, using a template provided by amazing internet ltd, but I find that when I upload images they appear washed out - all the real vibrancy of the colours has gone. I know that web graphics only use a limited number of colours but perhaps someone could help me with how to make the best of the colours available ?
Amanda:
From your post, I'm going to guess that all of your images are in Adobe RGB colorspace, or something capable of handling even higher resolutions.
Unfortunately, at this point in time, the web is not a color-managed place. Only one or two popular browsers even have the ability to display images that have ICC profiles embedded, and with some of those it's a "toggle" for which the default is set to "no" <bg>.
Thus, as Ellie pointed out, the best solution is to convert your images to sRGB before saving as Jpeg or GIF. In addition, you may wish to view the results in several different browsers on several different platforms. I've come up with two separate actions that add a wee bit more saturation and increase contrast to compensate for most displays when I convert to sRGB.
The end points you choose may also affect how your images appear. Feel free to check the PDF "digizone" chart on my site (http://www.riecks.com/digitalinfo.html) for some starting points.
Hope that helps.
David
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