Uploaded images are brighter on page than fullscreen

Forb · Post by **Forb** » Fri Oct 19, 2018 7:54 pm

Uploaded images are being made slightly brighter and less saturated when being resized for on page viewing. When you click to see full resolution everything is fine.

I took two screenshots and made a gif:

: color-problem.gif (53.67 KiB) Viewed 1333 times

The post was for skin tone accuracy and it's currently misleading because of this.
https://www.dollforum.com/forum/viewtop ... 1#p1399571

TY TDF STAFF

Post by **Tsall** » Sat Oct 20, 2018 4:01 am

Your original image has an embedded color profile (Adobe RGB). Most browser adjust colors based on embedded color profile. When resizing the original image to a smaller thumbnail, the forum software unfortunately removes all meta data, including the embedded color profile. Therefore the different colors between the original and the resized image. I discovered the missing meta data myself two weeks ago because of missing EXIF rotation info (https://www.dollforum.com/forum/viewtop ... 5&t=106691).

Can you try to export and upload your image without embedded color profile? Or try sRGB instead of Adobe RGB.

Forb · Post by **Forb** » Sat Oct 20, 2018 2:29 pm

I had a feeling it was color profile, and you're absolutely correct, it is.

In photoshop I changed to sRGB and the image looked exactly like the sized down one.

I then went through photoshop's profile conversion tool to get to sRGB.
It should look correct here:

: DSC_0499a-converted to sRGB.jpg (1.08 MiB) Viewed 1302 times

I don't remember seeing this before, is it a new development? Would it be possible to strip only the location data from the EXIF?
I can only imagine this is affecting quite a few members and with photography being so important here this seems like a big issue.

Thank you very much Tsall!

Post by **Tsall** » Thu Oct 25, 2018 3:36 am

Nice that there is a working Workaround.

Forb wrote:I don't remember seeing this before, is it a new development? Would it be possible to strip only the location data from the EXIF?
I can only imagine this is affecting quite a few members and with photography being so important here this seems like a big issue.

Sorry for the late answer. As Nescio said in my linked post:

Nescio50 wrote:... This issue occurred after we changed some settings and updated a software component because of a security issue. All is fine at The Doll Album, The Harem forum and CoverDoll, we are working on the remaining issue at TDF.

So it was never intended to remove any meta data from the preview images.