Hello! I’m a Food Talk Central and Hungry Onion member, both hosted by Discourse. After every automatic iPhone upgrade the photos I post are dull and the color is off. They look sharp in my photo album but upload poorly. It only happens on the 2 sites I use hosted by Discourse. Is there a compatibility issue? Asking @discobot to help on the actual site did nothing, btw. Thanks!

So if you screenshot a site with your uploaded image the colours are restored?

Only on Discourse & Discourse hosted sites. I just texted the same photo to myself and sent it to someone on IG to test and it looks exactly like the photo in my album.

Can you upload the same photo elsewhere and link it to us in here? It can be on imgur, twitter, or anywhere else public you can.

Okay I will try that soon. Thanks!

Okay I deleted and re-posted. Sorry, I’m not a big IG user. This photo is exactly how it looks in my photo album but won’t upload onto Discourse hosted sites anymore. See the difference from the photo I uploaded? https://www.instagram.com/p/B8rgpYjhDNm/?igshid=ztb674adx757

This picture on IG has no filter? This works fine for me, I get the same picture on Instagram and when I upload on Discourse. Are you using filters or editing the posts through the apps you are uploading to other sites with? [image] https://www.instagram.com/p/B7iCB4Gh0h7/?igshid=1s1m2vocziiq4

Hi @osioke - Except for changing the size I only edit & adjust my photos in my photo album. Yours do look exact. What camera phone do you use? Have you experienced an upgrade lately? This happens to me after automatic iPhone upgrades.

I spoke too soon. Some of my uploaded photos on my sites hosted Discourse are still dull. :smirk: Is there something to be done about this “png to jpg quality is set to 95 or if we are stripping some HDR color profile.”?

Photos posted on Discourse don't match the same colors as photos posted elsewhere

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Falco (Falco) February 17, 2020, 7:42pm 11

Colors are definitely different. I wonder if that is because of png to jpg quality is set to 95 or if we are stripping some HDR color profile.

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Photos posted on Discourse don't match the same colors as photos posted elsewhere

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