Images Lose Contrast When Uploaded

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  phlevel · Member · Sep 17, 2009 at 11:33 pm

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  Hello all,

  My blog is http://phlevel.wordpress.com/ but the page I would like to focus on is my About Me page: http://phlevel.wordpress.com/about-me/

  It would seem that my images are losing contrast on the main display page of my blog. After uploading them and viewing them in the post edit screen, they seem fine with the correct Brightness & Contrast. But after publishing my posts/pages the images lose a vast amount of Contrast when being displayed on the blog.

  Could anyone tell me why this is?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 17, 2009 at 11:56 pm

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  Open the about me page in the editor, switch to the HTML tab, and find the HTML code for the image which will look like this:

  <a href="http://phlevel.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/me.jpg">
  <img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1190" width="600" height="450" alt="me" src="http://phlevel.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/me.jpg?w=600&h=450" title="me"/>
  </a>

  In the img section of the code, remove width="600" height="450" (with the space after it and also remove ?w=600&h=450" from the end of the file name.

  WordPress has been tweaking with the full-sized images for about a month now and it is messing things up. It used to be that if you uploaded an image the exact size for your theme (as you are) that they did not mess with it, but for whatever reason now they are.

  I run a very high end color-corrected monitor (calibrated monthly) and I see virtually no difference in the images when comparing the original image you uploaded, but on non-color-corrected “normal” monitors there can be a dramatic difference. If I set my monitor correction back to original, I see more of a difference.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Sep 17, 2009 at 11:57 pm

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  Richard, help! Come clear this up please:

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/not-a-good-idea-to-use-more-than-one-tag-per-entry?replies=4

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 18, 2009 at 12:20 am

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  @panos, raincoaster did the clearing, and I added a little more on it.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Sep 18, 2009 at 12:46 am

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  Thanks!

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 18, 2009 at 12:49 am

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  Welcome as always.

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  phlevel · Member · Sep 18, 2009 at 2:02 am

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  Thank you so much, sir. :)

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 18, 2009 at 2:23 am

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  You’re welcome. You will have to remove that stuff from each image you insert into posts or pages until wordpress gets their poop in a group and stops mucking about with correctly sized images though.

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  gowithgravity · Member · Oct 12, 2009 at 6:22 am

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  Is there a proper venue to encourage them to handle the properly sized images correctly? Not only does it decrease contrast, but it softens sharp edges.