Faded/green color in twenty-ten header photos

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  drbuoux · Member · Oct 10, 2011 at 8:04 pm

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  My photos looks great in my posts, but whenever I try to place one in a the twenty-ten header it shows up faded and–this is just my guess–with a slight green tinge. I’ve tried both cropping from photos already published in posts, and creating an image sized for the header measurements directly from a raw file. Nothing works. The header photo colors are unpalatably muted. Anyone have any ideas?

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Oct 11, 2011 at 6:55 am

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  The resolution of your current header image is 240. Try uploading images in the correct pixel dimensions for the theme but in a resolution of 72 (which is what browsers/monitors display), or maybe one of the ‘standard’ multiples such as 300.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Oct 11, 2011 at 7:12 am

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  Also make sure it is saved with an sRGB colorspace.

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  drbuoux · Member · Oct 11, 2011 at 10:09 am

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  I created a file with the pixel dimensions from a raw file in Photoshop rather than Lightroom. Seems to work. The color space is SRGB–in LR it’s something else (ProPhoto?). Anyway, big improvement. Thanks.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Oct 11, 2011 at 10:17 am

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  You are welcome. For the web, it has to be sRGB or things will be off color wise. sRGB is the web standard.