New pictures look fine on my computer, terrible online

[Armitage]

OK, when I take a picture;

it looks great on the back of the camera,

it looks great in Fastpictureviewer.

it looks great in Lightroom.

it looks great in Photoshop. I save the file as a .JPG.

it still looks great in all of the above programs. No problem.

I upload it to Photobucket or my web page to view online and it looks like all the colors has been toned down. Dull and nearly colorless.

That's where it's being viewed by Internet Explorer. Yet my old pictures still look great there, and anywhere they're linked online. So I at first assume Photobucket has done something to it.

If I save my washed out looking picture from the Internet to my computer... it looks fine again with the above programs. Huh?

Only my new photos do this, my old ones look fine everywhere.

An old picture, it looks fine on my computer and over the Internet.

A new picture, looks fine on my computer, looks faded online, but a copy saved off the Internet looks good again, similar to the one above.

It's driving me crazy (and it's a short drive).

[Feynman]

I suspect it may be something in how your browser is set to display images. Perhaps there is a quality or dithering going on when you view them in your browser....

They look good to me!

[Armitage]

Do they? The Les Paul looks great to me, the Artist is faded... I could understand if they both looked good or both looked goofy... but not different.

It looks faded on my laptop too. The Artist is a much brighter picture.

...but if I save the picture, it's still faded on the laptop. Unlike on my desktop... where it's colorful again.

[cynic]

The artist appears to have much more ambient light so the picture isn't as warm as the LP and has no where near the same level of contrast, but it's not what I'd consider faded. My guess is we're seeing them as intended. It's a long ways from colorless.

[Armitage]

OK, this was tough, Lightroom was sending the picture over to Photoshop in a "better" hi-rez format, that the web doesn't recognize, so I had to set it to sRGB...

[hamerhead]

I think it's the guitar.

I'll send you my address.

[Armitage]

Nah, I'll keep'm...

I just had to figure that different "Color Spaces" aren't compatible.

[Feynman]

Nice! Sounds like smart-guy stuff.

[Armitage]

It was, that's why I struggled so much. I can smell burnt hair....

[SteveB]

I didnt think internet exploder was smart enough to look at color spaces.

[Feynman]

Can you post the same pic using both formats so I can see the difference? This is very interesting...I am a significantly colorblind chap, but I'd like to see if I can see what you see...

[Armitage]

Sorry, I deleted them... just imagine the Special is brown and the Artist Custom was more of a soft tobacco... The Artist Custom actually looked really good, just not even close to accurate.

[mathman]

Check you color calibrations in photoshop and and light room. Maybe switch to default and see what happens.

Just guessing here!

[gorch]

It's always good to check in different browsers. You might also want to check color models you are working in within different programs.

[Armitage]

Can you post the same pic using both formats so I can see the difference? This is very interesting...I am a significantly colorblind chap, but I'd like to see if I can see what you see...

Ok, I found these, it's not as obvious, but you see the missing amber in the second photo, the others were clearly missing reds/oranges.

[Feynman]

Wow - that's cool/interesting. I can see there's a difference, though I would never have known (obviously) had I only seen one of them. They both look good to me.

That guitar hurts me too.