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The beauty of learning as you go...

Submitted by FotoFrog on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 13:55

I've been working with Photoshop for a couple years now. I never seriously got into it until now and even now it's more of a hobby. This past weekend I spent about 5-6 hours editing and changing photographs in preparation for uploading them to my photo gallery. I used Adobe's "Save for Web and Device" option to do so, since it took care of some of the optimizing and adjustments I would otherwise have to do manually. So...after my 5-6 hours of work I uploaded the photographs and was overall pleased with my work. The photos looked good and most of the features of the site worked. Everything except for the Image Info link which is meant to display EXIF info for each photo. After a little digging I discovered Adobe's "Save for Web and Device" actually strips the EXIF info out automatically. In version CS3 there is an option to "Include XMP" which leaves most of the EXIF info. Unfortunately it doesn't leave everything. The Camera model for example is stripped out which to me is not something I consider to be fairly important information.

So... back to using "Save As".

But wait... "Save As" was leaving all of my photos looking washed out when viewed by my web browser, that's one of the main reasons I switched to "Save for Web and Device". Why exactly is it doing that? Another Google query leads me to discover that most images saved from a digital camera and opened in Photoshop are opened in a Color Space that is higher than that of your average web browser (optimized for sRGB).

The fix?

In Photoshop...
Edit -> Convert to Profile -> Destination Space Profile = sRGB IEC61966-2.1

This allowed my images to look as they should when viewing in Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox but I have to do it for every photo.