I upload and edit my pictures on my macbook. They look great there.
...When I look at them on flickr from another computer, they're really *blah*

I haven't changed any display settings on my mac, other than the brightness for privacy and battery life, if that helps at all.


I'm having trouble approximating in PS what I did in iphoto, to show the difference, but the first one is as close as I could it to look like what I had done on my laptop. The upper left is slightly more red, and more pronounced, on my laptop screen, and the area in the light beneath the tree is brighter and has more red, as well.
The second picture is the one edited on my laptop, and uploaded.




Anyone have suggestions on how to get some consistency?

[Edited on November 11, 2006 at 8:45 PM. Reason : This is driving me batty.]

Here's a screenshot from the mac, that's a closer idea of what it should look like, although it's way more intense.



[Edited on November 11, 2006 at 8:56 PM. Reason : lkjsds]

11/11/2006 8:44:29 PM

By another computer do you mean another mac or a windows PC? Windows and Mac OS use very different default color settings and what looks good on one will look like shit on the other sometimes.

11/11/2006 9:00:24 PM

PCs. my laptop is the only mac I use.

I could hop on another mac sometime soon, and see if they look like crap on that, too.
If it's another windows/mac thing, have any of yall succesfully worked around this, and how?

I think I may just get a few prints made this week, to see if I can get idea of what's going on

[Edited on November 11, 2006 at 9:10 PM. Reason : lkdfjd]

11/11/2006 9:06:20 PM

The only way to gain consistency is to run some color calibration software. Mac OS comes with ColorSync (System Preferences-> Displays, click the "Color" tab, click the "Calibrate" button), and you can get ColorSync for Windows, but I don't know how to apply the ColorSync profile in Windows.

[Edited on November 11, 2006 at 9:31 PM. Reason : ]

11/11/2006 9:30:32 PM

What browser do you use on your Mac? I have a problem with Firefox messing up the color, but it only seems to happen on Mac versions of the program now.

For example (sorry for the large size):


The one on the left is how it appears in Firefox for me, the one on the right is how it looks in Safari and any Mac OSX program that isn't Firefox, basically. I was having trouble with the color on PC versions of Firefox (and not IE, for example) but that doesn't seem to be a problem anymore.

11/11/2006 9:58:55 PM

Quote :

"The only way to gain consistency is to run some color calibration software. Mac OS comes with ColorSync (System Preferences-> Displays, click the "Color" tab, click the "Calibrate" button), and you can get ColorSync for Windows, but I don't know how to apply the ColorSync profile in Windows."

would that give me some set of values to set on another computer? I'll give it a go today.
^I don't use a browser at all I edit in ihpoto, and drop them into flickr uploader, so it's not that.

11/12/2006 8:38:55 AM

dude... I bet the one on the left is how the picture actually looks and the one on the right uses over enriched colors to try and win over apple users subliminally. because apple's are so vibrant and full of like unlike dull pc's!

...come on, you know they'd try some faggotry like this

11/12/2006 9:03:42 AM

Mac's use a different color gamut. They are always going to look different on a Mac, and going to be more accurate. The PC you were trying to view on was almost guaranteed off

11/12/2006 11:08:15 AM

^^ The one on the right is how I edited to look (it was originally a RAW file). The one on the left is actually much closer to what the original picture looked like before I did any editing. Most of my RAW pictures look washed out anyway, but Firefox negated most of the saturation in the picture.

11/12/2006 12:15:04 PM

Make sure you're editing and saving with the sRGB color profile, which all web browsers should render the same. I made the mistake of editing in the Adobe color profile for a long time, and all of my uploads to Flickr looked washed out as well. At least that's what several photographers have told me. There are a few threads in several Flickr groups about this.

11/14/2006 8:22:42 AM

^thanks for the sRGB headsup.

how is this looking to those of you on PCs?

11/15/2006 12:52:45 PM

^i'm seeing a baby picture here on my pc. it looks pretty good.

[Edited on November 15, 2006 at 12:57 PM. Reason : but seriously, if we don't have anything to compare against i don't know what help we can be.]

11/15/2006 12:57:20 PM

I know

It should have a slightly warm tone. I took the saturation down a few points, and increased contrast and exposure.

And when you say "a baby pic", you mean in size, right???

11/15/2006 1:01:01 PM

i was making a bad attempt at a joke.

11/15/2006 1:08:42 PM

It's better (thanks, ON), but still not perfect.

But now I have a good idea of what sort of difference to accomodate, so it's all good.

11/15/2006 11:31:51 PM