Color problems with image uploads
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I am having problems with the color in my images when I upload them to my blog. I am currently saving in sRGB. Previously I was saving in Adobe RGB and thought this was the problem but there is no difference. I do not resize my images before I upload. Should I be doing so? Would this even make a difference? Please Help! this is so frustrating!
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Most definitely do not upload a 4752 × 3168, 1.1MB image to your site. First off you are giving image thieves your full-sized images, and they will steal them and use them for their own. Better to downsize them in your image editing program to about 800px wide at most and then if using photoshop, do a “save for web & devices” from the file menu and optimize that 800px wide image to be no more that 100-150k in file size, and I actually would even go further and say not over 75k.
Secondly you are asking wordpress (giving them control over your image quality) to downsize a 4752px wide image to 640px wide. WordPress is never going to do anywhere near as good a job as you can do through your own image editing program on your computer.
The other thing is, go to settings > reading and set your site to show at most 3-5 posts per page. Your site completely choked my wireless internet connection and after 3 minutes waiting for your main page to finish loading, I gave up. You always have to keep in mind that the majority of internet users are on slower internet connections (under 1Mbps) and they simply will not wait for 5 or so minutes for your site to load. They will click away and go elsewhere.
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Oh, and also, always save in sRGB, not Adobe. sRGB is the web standard and as you found out, the colors go all wonky if you use Adobe RGB.
The color shift issues on the sRGB images though again are a result of putting control of a very, very, very large image in the hands of wordpress. If you care about your image quality, and I expect you do, then take control of that yourself.
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Thank you so much! As is obvious I have no idea what I am doing! When you say “optimize the 800px image to be no more than 100k in file size,” where do I do this? Is this file optimization an option when I am re-sizing the image? Or saving it?
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First make a copy of the original image (save as) and work on that copy. Change the image size as required.
On the file menu is a selection called “save for web & devices.” Click that and there you can set the file type to create and the compression level and it will optimize your image for the web. Down in the lower left of that window it will show you the estimated file size. Use that as a guide as to what compression level to use for which types of photographs. I generally try and stay away from “low” quality in I can possibly do so and keep the image file size reasonable. Still when it comes to the web, everything is at 72dpi, so going clear down to medium typically will not result in much image quality loss and you would typically have to have a medium right next to the original to see any difference in quality on screen.
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