Why, hello there. I am so happy to meet you!
Allow me to introduce myself. I am the new Worth1000. Is this your first time meeting the new me? We should get reacquainted then. So many things are different about me now. Come and learn more :).
I'm wondering if there's a specific color profile which Worth is using?
I've noticed while uploading my images that the color mutes quite a bit.
I've tried saving in 8-bits sRGB and AdobeRGB, but it doesn't make a difference. While the colors in my photoshop are bright and saturated, they turn dull and flat after uploading to Worth.
Photoshop sucks when it comes to web color. Here's an explanation for what happens and how to fix it:
http://www.viget.com/inspire/the-mysterious-save-for-web-color-shift/
Also, hi everyone :)
Welcome back, D :)
Great article, thanks for sharing.
Although I'm not sure if I'm prepared to battle about it, I dare to wonder if it's Photoshop which sucks when it comes to web colors.
I think any editing software will try that.
And since I work mostly with print, I'm not willing to switch off my color profiles just like that, even if Worth has a big place in my heart *grins*
And aside that, I don't want to save for web in the first place, because like I mentioned to Marian as well, I don't want to strip the data from my images. It's a weak link, but it's pretty much the only link which ties me to my images when they go online.
But anyway, Jax, thanks for looking into this. Looking forward to hearing what you find out.
Totally understand, I jumped the gun when I said that PS sucks for web colors. I was coming at it from more of a web design angle, and in my case, the color profiles play less of a role. One of the frustrating things is that different browsers have different ways of interpreting color profiles -- some choose to ignore them completely, and this is something that I think PS fails to acknowledge.
If I'm not mistaken, one of the reasons Save for Web exists is to eliminate those inconsistencies, so you can save a copy specifically for display on the web, yet the painful part for me is that it ends up causing even more trouble.
FWIW, photoshop is no better or worse than any other ICC compliant tool. The fact that browser are inconsistent in their support of ICC profiles and the fact that they behave differently when no profile is given doesn't help but you don't get to blame that on you image editing tool.
For anything you do for the web, it helps to always use sRGB as your working color space. Select embed ICC profiles when you do save for web. If you have a good reason not to work in sRGB, select convert to sRGB in Save for Web. If you want your IPTC and other metadata, make sure that "Metadata: All" is selected in save for web...
HTH
EDIT/Update:
Just checked and noticed that at least the new worth throws out the color profile information. I don't notice the difference because Safari assumes sRGB when no profile is given but it may look different in browsers that behave differently.
@JaxomLOTUS, it would be nice if you could preserve the ICC information so that at least those who use color-management enabled browsers get what the artist intended.
For the time being... the best solution is still to submit in sRGB as that will be the default for color-managing browsers and is still quite close to how most monitors look.
