ok I am going nuts..why is it when I load a pic to the gallery it seems to darken and swallow details? please please tell me how to stop this other then lightening the picture which then alters the "feel" feel of it the other day I did one with wicked blood work on it and it darkened and disappeared when uploaded so it just looked like black muck...last night the highlights and flow of the hair disappeared so it looks like the hair is just inky black..HELPP

Are you on dial-up? Your browser may have filter that reduces the image quality so you can download the picture faster. If thats the case, I would use Internet Explorer to view the galleries, it may be slower but quality is better.

My graphics always look darker on the gallery than they do when I work on them. I have cable, fast download, graphics difficult if not impossible to see on the gallery and I didn't create them that way. Everyone said it was how my monitor was calibrated but then why would the graphics look fine when I'm working at them and look filtered through a glass darkly when uploaded? Makes no sense to me.

YES YES Dialyn the same here!!! I have dsl and when I am working on them they look fine but loaded ....GUH they go so dark! I use IE to view things ..but GUH how can I fix it??

How weird! I wonder if the way you save your JPEG in your paint program has anything to do with it. I always use the save for web JPEG compression thing, I have DSL too and my images look the same after uploading. Or maybe Rosity is eating some of your pictures. :)

I'm using Jasc Paint Shop Pro and using the compression wizard. Explorer 6.

I have tried with psp...and with photoshop..also when I make a slide show...for CD they are fine sometimes actually lighter....O.o I am so confused I just want my wicked blood to show up and my highlights in hiar..and alll that good stuff...

Be sure to go over any "Color Management" setups you have going on in your paint programs. They defenitely could be affecting your pics. I just turn mine completely off in Photoshop. Since I have done that, my pics always look exactly the same whether in Photoshop, a third party viewer (IrfanView), or when I look at them in my gallery on Renderosity. AgentSmith

ok I did this but I dont think it helped any....GUH Ill post the latest piece tomarrow...I hhhhhhoppppe it doesnt go Dark on me agian

Are you, by any chance, working in CMYK then converting to RGB when you post...?

nope...I do notknow what is going on it just uploads dark...not to bad this last time..but I turned off the color managment and all that good stuff and still dark. O.o

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I guess my question would be is why do some of us then end up with dark graphics and others don't. I'm not sophisticated ... the explanations are nice but I just need a simple way of fixing the problem (and it has to be very simple because I'm stupid). My understanding is that I only have a choice of GIF and JPEG for uploading, and both formats have limitations. I understood JPEG was better for scanned photographs and artwork. I'm so tired of looking at my graphics turning into mud filtered productions that I've stopped posting (to be honest, that's not the only reason, but it helped give me an excuse to stop wasting bandwidth). I am an indifferent artist on my best day, but even I am offended by the dreary results I see in my gallery when I contrast them with the originals. If there is a reasonable tutorial on how to clear up the problem, I'd be glad to follow it. Telling me I may be "working in CMYK then converting to RGB" tells me nothing since I am not making those conscious choices on saving. Some of you are very sophisticated in all of this. I'm not. I'm the idiot in the corner who pokes at the keyboard with one finger. Is there any hope for the one person here who doesn't understand the technical side of all this?

Well - a lot of people make the mistake of not choosing the "Save for Web" option when saving their images using Photoshop. This can cause several problems. I don't have all the answers, as there are many issues with many different software programs, operating systems, browsers, etc., but I'll keep my eyes and ears open on these topics. :) Tommy

I don't use Photoshop. I use Jasc Paint Shop Pro. I don't have a "save for the web" option.

I should add: "not that I know of."

Sorry dialyn - I'm not familiar with JASC PSP. :(

It's okay. I forgive you. ;) I bet the solution, once found, is going to be something simple. It almost always is. Maybe I'll just start doing daylight desert scenes. No problem with the darkness factor then.

That's what I use too.

You're head and shoulders above me. I'll check my defaults and see if they match yours. Thank you!

NP..but I do admire daylight desert scenes tho! :)

Did you get Traveler's free desert lights? Even I can't go wrong with those. :D