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?