[Jewelry making - Article 00843] - Re: [Orchid] Photographing Jewelry 101

[Les Brown]

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Hi Helen,

>     My problem is that when I upload my images onto my computer, as
>     each one is being imported, I can see the true colours as they
>     appeared in real life, then as I click on each one to take a
>     closer look, the computer tells me it's rendering the image, and
>     the lovely vibrant colours disappear and become horribly washed out
>     colours which I then have to go back and correct. 

    Here's what's happening with your pictures: When you are uploading
    from your camera or card into Lightroom the "profile" attached to
    the image is either coming out of your camera as "Adobe RGB 1998" or
    it is being converted to that when it enters the Lightroom software
    which offers both RGB and Adobe workspaces. When you then upload to
    Etsy, which I'm sure supports only standard RGB profiles, you are
    seeing the washed out effect. 

    Somewhere in lightroom are two ways to deal with this: One, there
    should be, probably in Preferences, a way to make sure the profile
    attached to your pics comes into Lightroom as RGB, not Adobe. Two,
    there should be a command, probably under edit, to re-assign profiles
    once an image has been uploaded. 

    RGB is the internet color standard consisting of 255 colors per
    channel. Adobe RGB 1998 is the printing industry's standard color
    pallette, much expanded from RGB, but basically unreproducible on a
    monitor screen. The full range of colors only shows up in print.
    However, when you shift from a program supporting Adobe to one that
    does not you get the noticable shift in contrast and density that you
    have seen. 

I hope this helps,

Sincerely,
Les Brown
L.F.Brown Goldwork

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