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Uploads darker than original

Okay, I'm having a problem. Whether I scan in a picture that is already colored, or color line art in photoshop, when I upload the picture to the web the image appears darker than it had to begin with. It's getting frustrating. Anyway way to avoid this in future, so that I don't have to adjust my pictures *after* I've completed them? I would really like my pics to upload as I see them to begin with. It's frustrating to be excited about the outcome of a drawing only to see it look all dark and muddy on the upload.

Is there some technical setting I need to mess with to fix this? I have no idea what is causing the problem. This happens with photo uploads as well, and it's a generic problem, not specific to the artspots website.

It could be the monitor's doing, it certainly was in my case (And thus an awful lot of images I'd done looked utterly awful when it was replaced), otherwise I'm not sure seeing as that was my problem I didn't need to go any further :) Given all screens are different it doens't help either.

If it isn't, hopefully someone else can think of something.

Well, I checked to see if there was an ICC profile in the image (assuming that it was your most recent one), and there wasn't. So that's fine.

Check to make sure that View > Proof Colors in unchecked, because that may modify the colors as they are viewed in Photoshop.

Yea I was about to suggest what Metsys said. The hotkey for that is CTRL Y.

Hmm... thanks for the help, guys! I'm still a little confused. The proof colors issue is in photoshop? I looked under the view tab and there wasn't a setting/selection that involved proof colors. My photoshop is really old, and it's a limited version. The only items in the view tab are zoom options and ruler options. =( Am I looking in the wrong place?

Yeah, I'm not sure where where that option would be in older versions of Photoshop. It might not be able to do it.

It sounds like Photoshop is doing color correction using a weird ICC profile. It should be using sRGB or Adobe RGB (I've heard Adobe RGB is better). You can access the current ICC profile (in CS3 anyway :D) by going to Edit > Color Settings. It doesn't seem to change the way the image looks on my machine though, but on older versions it might. If that doesn't work search the Photoshop Help with "ICC", "color correction" or "color profile".

But yeah, the ICC profile is the only thing I can think of that will do something like that.

Thank you so much for the help, Metsys. I'm going to try your suggestions. Hopefully it will help! =P