GeriatricNinja asked this question on the artcone forums: I’ve noticed something very odd about the color of the images that I take when I try to post them somewhere online or even use them as my desktop background. The color looks muddy and not as vibrant as it really is. I’m not really sure what’s causing it. The starting images is 240 dpi and a few of them I’ve taken were raw files that have been converted to jpeg. I change the dpi to 72 and the color is set on RGB, but it still doesn’t look right. The images appear fine in photoshop and when I view them in windows, its when I try to use them as backgrounds or upload them somewhere (photobucket, flickr) that the colors appear muddy.

Here’s what I’m talking about:

REAL image color

MUDDY color

The way I got that picture to work is by copying the canvas and putting it on its own document, but thats a quick fix and doesnt work with my larger pictures. If anyone can explain this and tell me how I can avoid it i’d appreciate it.