I have found in the past that my posted images lose vibrancy, especially strong reds and greens and blues, compared to the originals on my computers. I think I know why and have found something of a workaround, at least in Photoshop and Lightroom.

All my monitors are regularly colour calibrated, so I know this isn’t the issue. I use both Mac and Windows platforms and the same disappointing results occur. I think this has to do with the colour space used.

Colour space is a bit like a box of coloured crayons. The colour space used on the web is sRGB, which is fine for most compact cameras shooting in jpg. If you shoot with a dSLR in RAW and then use Lightroom or Photoshop using wider colour spaces (Adobe RGB or, better, ProPhoto RGB), the web will "dumb down" your colours.

The first thing to do is work in the colour space best suited to your needs. Use the “Save for web and devices” option in Photoshop (not “Save as…JPG” ) and make sure the “Convert to sRGB” option is checked.

If the result is still faded in Photoblog, I’ve found that boosting the appropriate colours in a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer does the trick. Select each colour channel and adjust accordingly.

In Lightroom, make sure that you adjust the channels in the HSL section of the Develop Module.

The process is a little empirical – very much a hit and miss affair, but it’s better than nothing.

Note: you shouldn’t do this to adjust prints. Normally, the printer driver works fine in RGB colour. This applies only to posting to Photoblog.

If someone has a better approach, please, * please * tell me!

Thank you sooo much for this explanation!!

Thanks for the info, will try that.

Thank you