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Hov to save the correct colors when you upload your JPG to deviant art, if you, like me, work in AdobeRGB or another color space different from sRGB.I used one of the painting of the skillfull Marta ([link] , since she originally asked for a method to save his colors.
You can find her beautiful painting here: [link]
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It's a bit old but it still can be useful
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Nice to be of help sometime!
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This is an awesome tutorial. Someone linked me to it, and any time I see someone in a group mention concerns about saturation, I send them over this way.
Thank you so much for uploading it.
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Happy to be useful, and thanks for the share to who can need it ^_^
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Um hi, I hope you can help me somehow or at least explain this. I've had this same color problem, actually only for about two years now. I work only in sRGB. From the original shot in-camera down to the final jpg, I only ever have sRGB as my color space. No changes at all in between. I'm not too artsy and haven't moved on to making use of the wider gamut color spaces yet.
Despite only using sRGB all the way through, when I save my file from photoshop (or directly from lightroom) into jpg, its color space seems to get freaky. In win7, the thumbnails in explorer look way oversaturated. When opening with windows photo viewer, all colors are fine. Then, once I upload to dA, the color space goes back to the oversaturated version. The only way to prevent this on dA is to make sure the image doesn't shrink from its original resolution. So, if I upload the 600x600 version of the image, its colors turn out fine. But if I upload a 3000x2000 image, it will need to be shrinked and thus be oversaturated. Only the full-view image will appear normal. Also if uploaded to facebook or flickr, the color is spot on. It only seems to be dA that does this.
I seem to be the odd one out here, in that none of the solutions work for me and I only use sRGB. I have calibrated my monitor and I really don't see how it can be a monitor or browser issue, since flickr and facebook, and even deviantart can load the colors normally as long as it doesn't shrink the image. I don't know what to do. I can always just upload tiny versions of my images, but god that is sad. I always thought some people might like to go through a 21MP image to see the detail and whatnot, but what's the point if it ruins the image even on the thumbnail so nobody even goes to view it?!
One final note, I've compared saving images in different color spaces, and find that saving in AdobeRGB actually makes the image look like the oversaturated version - the color is exactly the same. So it seems that for some reason, my image sometimes registers as AdobeRGB and sometimes as sRGB? This development leaves me no less confused and frustrated o.o Any help would be appreciated as you seem like you know about these things, but feel free to ignore the whole post, I'm sure I'll work it out one day. Thanks for reading as far as you have ^^
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Mhhh I don't know if I can be of help on this issue, since I don't work on windows and don't open images in anything else than photoshop usually (or preview for fast viewing) on mac, but I've never had the problem you said.
From what I've understood, you have a color problem when you shrink the image. But it's when you shrink it on DA only?
I think you have to take a step by step approach to find what is the problem.
First, you must try to see if you have saved the jpg with color space embebbed or not. Maybe you are embedding a color space inside the jpg without noticing.
Second, you must see if you are working on the image in RGB and not other weird color spaces (I suppose not, but sometime you never known 
Third, you can try to watch in photoshop your color settings: maybe you have set it to embed AdobeRGB or other color spaces without saying to you (disabled dialogs), so when you save you save to the wrong format.
Fourth, download and open the "wrong color" image from web to photoshop, and see what color space it have.
IF it's all ok, maybe you have found the "wrong step" in the work.
Hope it can help you find the problem.
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Thanks. I've done all of these things. I'm just reinstalling my Windows. The problem has spread to my whole PC now, anywhere I view my images they are discolored. Something's majorly wrong so we'll see how I do after a reinstall. Thank you for the advice though and for listening.
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Hello there,
Thank you so much for this helpful tutorial. I've checked about this for long time and I couldn't figure out clearly like this time.
I'm currently a Mac user and the problem I've faced is my painting looks darker comparing to my Dell laptop. When I compare the same work on both screens, I can see the colour within dark tone look more dull and grey on Dell, while on the Mac everything looks contrast and more hue. I'm not sure that it will be fine this time but I will try painting on my Mac again by following your instruction here.
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Despite the tutorial, keep in mind that if you wanna paint "for web" and to see it on different monitors, the best way is to move away from adobeRGB and just use sRGB. AdobeRGB is useful for some printings, and if you work on photomanipulations or other image wich can benefit from the expanded color range.
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Does this happen in some particular versions of photoshop?? I have cs3 and I'm frankly not sure what this is about since I never noticed any such thing before.
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No, this happen if you work in AdobeRGB and save a jpg in that "color space".
Most browsers can't recognize that color space. Some can, there were plans in making all browsers "read" the color profiles, but they are not implemented in most "final versions" of the actual browsers.
Most users noticed the problem in Deviant Art, but I found it's a broad "browsers" problem. You won't have problems if you work in sRGB usually, or for print work.
Anyway, one can simply work directly in sRGB if you don't need to print High fidelity images.
I use AdobeRGB because I can play a bit more with color in cyans and deep greens, but then only I and the printer see those colors, BUT the prints will be richer in the skies and greens tones.
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I see! O.O
Thanks so much for the valuable info
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Red more here for example:
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This is something I've struggled with so much! Thank you very much, I'm looking forward to trying this!
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Wonderfully explained. I always wondered why the colors go crazy from file to upload. Thanks!
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This is such a common problem with digital art... not to mention when you colored something on a wrongly calibrated monitor and find out it looks wrong everywhere else - had many headaches from that!
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Yes, after 20 years of computer graphics, the color profiles are still understood poorly by the softwares and the monitors.
I work on web design too, and it's a pain to think that is almost impossible that a color scheme looks the same on every monitor and Os, expecially when windows and osX are so differently calibrated at start.
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Thanks so much! I had this exact problem with my pictures. It's greatly appreciated.
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