Wierd colours!

[karmagarda]

Not quite sure where to put this. It's kind of a cross between post processing and computers. So move if you see necessary mods!

I purchased Photoshop Elements recently to use as my new editor. I edited and uploaded an image last night and came across a strange issue that I'm presuming is down to colour spaces. I'm sure some of you have come across this before. Here's the photo:

<... photo removed...>

At home the blues aren't quite as in your face. And I'm using Firefox in both places :shrug:. Even at home, it was looking more saturated in Chrome and Safari.

When saving the Image as a jpeg I made sure to save as sRGB. If you check the exif you'll see the colour space is sRGB. So here's the breakdown:

It looks fine in Elements
It looks fine in Firefox at home
It looks over saturated in Google Chrome
It looks over saturated in Gimp
It looks over saturated in Firefox at work
It looks over saturated in Google Chrome at work

What on earth is going on at all

How does it look to you? I know it's hard for you to say, because you'd have to know what I mean by oversaturated etc etc... Is there any place you can check what the same image read in a different colour space looks like?

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[Duffman]

Have you got you monitors set up diffrantly, if not im clueless

 

[markw08]

Probably just due to different monitors...

Only way to be 100% sure is to calibrate your monitor...

With something like this...

 

[karmagarda]

Have you got you monitors set up diffrantly, if not im clueless

Even if I eliminate the monitors it still happens. Just on my monitor at home it displays it fine in Firefox and PS Elements, but more saturated or something in chrome and even the Gimp too. It's like as if even though the jpeg has sRGB as it's colour space the browser reads it as a different colour space and when it somewhat "converts" it to the another colour space, maybe Adobe RGB for example, it gets even more saturated. I think I'm correct in saying that if it happens the other way around it looks flatter? I.e. A file in Adobe RGB mistakenly read as sRGB looks flatter?

I dunno, I'm very confussssed

:shrug:

 

[karmagarda]

Probably just due to different monitors...

Only way to be 100% sure is to calibrate your monitor...

With something like this...

I actually do need to calibrate my monitor, it's slightly off on gamma! But unfortunately it doesn't explain what's happening between chrome and firefox on the 1 machine/monitor. I'll have to reinvestigate later when I get home, but it's driving me :nuts:

 

[markw08]

Hmm that is a weird one....

Must be something to do with the colour profiles....

Not sure maybe somebody else knows....

 

[karmagarda]

Hmm that is a weird one....

Must be something to do with the colour profiles....

Not sure maybe somebody else knows....

The most confusing part for me is that it seems to happen the opposite way round to what I would have expected. Usually colour spaces cause problems with flatter images, not oversaturated ones

 

[karmagarda]

Ok, I'm even more confused... I think there's something wierd happening in Photoshop Elements version 8. The original image as per flickr earlier is left as was. I reopened the photo, then selected adobe RBG as the colour space, saved it and uploaded it to flickr... now if I open firefox it looks like this:

<... photo removed...>

Click the image to check out my flickr if you can't see it. What the what the bejasus! I'm confussed :shrug:

:bang:

 

[karmagarda]

Ok, I need to test this a bit more, but I think I figured out the issue. If I'm right it's a small bug in Photoshop Elements. If you save in PSD format in the Adobe RGB colour space, and then save a jpg off that in an sRGB format this issue seems to show it's head.

I'm heading out now to torture myself by looking at film cameras that I can't afford yet. When I come back I might investigate more.

Photoshop Elements... you're very very naughty... but I like you...