JPEG export over saturated and posting online looks terrible

[Luke Faulkner]

After editing a photo to my liking, the exported JPEG becomes over saturated and often more contrasted. Then if I proceed to upload that picture onto canon image gateway or facebook, the picture not only change in adjustments further, but lose significant quality as well.

 

Every solution I find online is to decrease the pixel dimensions to be compatible with the website in question or reducing the file size to as small as possible. However, when applied, these don't remedy the problem. Copying what was done in the "Exporting compression efficiency" video tutorial didn't help either.

 

So is there something I'm missing? I don't understand how people get their photos to look beautiful when I emulate their settings exactly. Please help!!

 

 

[toltec]

A bit more information would help.

 

Are you using Designer or Photo?

 

Are you on a Mac or a PC?

 

Can you supply a sample picture?

 

What  export settings are you using? 

 

 

 

 

[Luke Faulkner]

I'm using Photo on a PC. The less saturated picture is the desired outcome that I had to tweak outside of photo along with the export settings my research has suggested to use.

[MikeW]

And what is the document profile? What is the profile being used in APhoto?

 

It would have been best to upload the Affinity Photo document.

[Luke Faulkner]

1 hour ago, MikeW said:

And what is the document profile? What is the profile being used in APhoto?

 

It would have been best to upload the Affinity Photo document.

Where can the document profile be found? Apologies but I'm a bit new.

[toltec]

If you select the hand tool, it is shown on the Context Toolbar.

 

or go Edit > Preferences > Colour

 

 

[Luke Faulkner]

[firstdefence]

Just tried with an image from the web exporting with your settings and I cannot tell the difference re colour rendition image was 3400 x 5000px with a similar complexion to your girl.

It may also help if you told us your editing history, what have you done to this image prior to export, or what tutorial did you watch/follow, a sample file even a cropped version with its history saved would definitely help us understand more.

[Dan Caldwell]

I'm a new user who came across this exact problem, and fixed it by doing the following:

- turning off "Embed ICC profile" in the jpeg export setting, and;

- making sure the RGB colour profile in preferences matched my Windows colour profile for my monitor (not sure what the equivalent would be for Mac, sorry)

With this, I was able to get consistent colour throughout, from loading images in to editing and exporting.

 

Hope this helps!

Edited July 11, 2019 by Dan Caldwell
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