Ok ive recently started taking photos and ive been trying out some hdr. Whenever I do them I save them as TIFF files but to put them online ive had to convert them to jpegs and when I do this I lose alot of detail. Is this just something Im going to have to live with? Is there a better way of saving these that im missing?
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Question about file format and uploading to sites
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What settings are you specifying for the color space and jpeg quality on the export dialog in Lightroom? Are you applying any sharpening as part of the export process too?
I usually check the box to apply sharpening for the screen specifying a 'normal' amount on my exports. Can you post a sample that you're not happy with?
It's on the export dialog just below the image size and resolution.
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Ok i just tried that and it didnt make a difference. What im losing is alot of the depth. The blacks are the main thing im losing and some of the color. Here is the pic as a jpeg it doesnt look anywhere near as good as the tiff file
It looks ok to me, but I can't see what you're seeing. What browser do you use?
I've had no complaints using Preview to view sRGB images. Firefox has color management features now with version 3, but they have to be specifically enabled while Safari has always been color managed. You may want to view the image in Safari and compare it to the one in Firefox, just to rule out the browser as potentially contributing to your problem.
That _is_ strange. Firefox looked flat for me, until I turned on the color management features. If you open about:config in Firefox, what is the setting for gfx.color_management.enabled ?
This is a link to the add-in that helps you control the color management settings in Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=color management
Images look identical for me no matter whether I view them in Safari, Firefox, Preview, Photoshop (CS3), or Lightroom. For your photo, I disabled color management in Firefox and it ceased to match Safari and Preview. I am attaching a screen capture of that. FWIW, my monitor is color calibrated using an Xrite colorimeter.
I don't know what the right answer is for your system, but color management definitely appears to be an area for you to explore.
