Gravatar screwing up image colours / gamma

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  iknowdana · Member · Oct 21, 2013 at 10:46 pm

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  I am trying to upload an image to Gravatar for our bug-tracking system and am having issues with the colours. Specifically, Gravatar appears to be messing with the brightness or gamma somehow.

  Here are some screen-shots of what’s happening for me: http://imgur.com/a/cv4Om

  Things i have tried:

  – Re-saving the image with different editors
  – Re-exporting the image with different colour profiles (sRGB, generic RGB, Adobe RGB)
  – Stripping gamma and profile information with ImageOptim
  – Various combinations of different profiles and stripping/not stripping gamma

  I have also tried saving as GIF instead of PNG — the same problem happens.

  If i use JPEG, i do get accurate colours — however, Gravatar’s re-compression pretty much destroys the image quality.

  Is this a known problem? I can’t find anything online or in the FAQ.

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  timethief · Member · Oct 21, 2013 at 10:47 pm

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  What is the URL of your blog please starting with http://

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  iknowdana · Member · Oct 21, 2013 at 10:52 pm

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  I don’t have a blog. I have an internal bug-tracking system which supports Gravatar, and am trying to set the avatar for our VCS account.

  In any case, the problem is not related to the third-party sites that the images are being displayed on — it is on the Gravatar site itself.