The picturesque Schloß Schönbrunn in Vienna.

At this point in our trip, I was beginning to make good use of foreground objects to hide people. There are still some people visible in this shot, but I think the low angle coupled with the flowers — and then the out-of-focus flowers — really works well.

The colours — the reds and purples of the flowers, and the blue of the sky — contrast well with the yellow of the building. I think it might be a little overprocessed and the conversion from Adobe RGB to sRGB made it look a little sick (i.e. green) which I possibly overcompensated by using Lightroom’s “tint” feature, as well as the sky changing colour a bit much. Very annoying and I still haven’t got the process down pat.

As we walked through Schloß Schönbrunn towards the exit, there was a small chapel within the building. Inside the chapel was a man playing an acoustic guitar, with classical music. We stepped inside for a moment to listen to the man play; without amplification, the music filled the entire room. Most certainly a magical moment.

A couple of months back I had a whinge about colour space differences between what I shoot (Adobe RGB) and what I see on the web using Firefox or IE (sRGB).

I thought I’d got it fixed by selecting the sRGB colour space in the Adobe Camera Raw application which appears in Photoshop whenever I open a photo shot in RAW. This forces Photoshop to convert the photo to sRGB when it opens, but the original RAW remains in the Adobe RGB colour space which means all the extra colour information is retained in the original.

However, it still doesn’t seem to have resolved the issue. I uploaded a photo to Flickr earlier to test these changes out, and compared the photo side-by-side with the same photo in Photoshop, and there were definitely differences. They weren’t as pronounced as what I posted about the other time, but they’re still there.

If Firefox would just include support for the Adobe RGB colour space when viewing JPEG images, this problem would be sorted. For all my pimping Firebird and Firefox over the last couple of years, this is something really annoying.

Safari users are the only ones with Adobe RGB I think; possibly Opera but I’m not sure on that.

Yesterday and today I’ve really begun to notice that the colours of photos I edit in Photoshop are not the same colours as photos that end up on the web (either on my photoblog or on Flickr, for instance).

I know it has to do with colour profiles, but I can’t for the life of me get it to work properly. I take photos using the Adobe RGB colour space over sRGB since it provides a lot higher colour gamut (which is not necessarily always desired), and when saving files in Photoshop to JPEG, the colours completely change.

I just uploaded a photo of a brick wall to my photoblog (it’s not there yet, so don’t go looking!), and the colours that appeared on the web version were much “cooler” (or bluer) than the version I could see in Photoshop or even using Windows’ Picture and Fax Viewer. I know it’s definitely not my monitor (whether that’s calibrated correctly is another matter entirely) because I view the two photos side-by-side and can definitely see the difference.

The current process I’ve been trying in Photoshop is to use the Edit -> Convert to Profile method, to convert photos to sRGB (which is used for photos on the web in almost all instances) and then save them out to JPEG. But still the colours change.

Below is a shot which compares the two; the left is the shot in Windows Picture and Fax Viewer, the right is on the web.

If any readers have any idea how to ensure the colours stay the same, they would be extremely appreciated. It’s a real drag uploading brilliant images to the web just to see them look dull in comparison to what I saw two minutes earlier.