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!

Having the same problem again. The photos in my photo album are bright and crisp but when I upload them to Food Talk Central and Hungry Onion (both hosted by Discourse) they are dull. Can anyone help me this time? This screenshot is from @falco on this thread 3 years ago. Could this be the same problem? [image]

TheCookie1 sent me a sample picture, and the results are a bit weird. I got a picture of tomatoes. The picture compressed by Discourse appears “redder” (more saturated) than the original. If I upload the image to Discord, the image on Discord also appears redder than the original. But here’s the weird thing: If I download both the Discourse and Discord pictures (that appear both redder in the browser) on my hard drive and open them both with Irfanview, only the picture downloaded from Discourse appears redder. The picture downloaded from Discord looks like the original BUT appears redder in the browser. :face_with_spiral_eyes: In conclusion… I have absolutely no idea about what’s going on :grimacing: (the original photo isn’t HDR by the way. Original: [image] Recompressed by Discourse: [image] Uploaded on Discord: (I don’t know what Discord does with the uploads, but the final image is slightly lighter than the original) [image]

That’s weird. The problem I’m having is when I upload photos onto Food Talk Central and Hungry Onion (both hosted by Discourse) the color is not darker it’s lighter than my original photo and very dull. This is only in the last few weeks.

Adding @rlauriston from FTC to the conversation.

[image] TheCookie1: the color is not darker it’s lighter than my original photo Yeah, that surprised me as well. On my screen, the uploaded picture is more saturated, not less, which is contradictory to your post from 3 years ago. :person_shrugging:

Hi @Canapin [image] Coin-coin le Canapin: which is contradictory to your post from 3 years ago. It’s actually the same problem. The photos in my album are sharp with colors that pop. The colors in my uploaded photos are dull and not as sharp.

May I upload your pictures here?

Okay, so here are the pictures recompressed by Discourse… [image0] [image1] And copies of the original ones here (links only so they aren’t downloaded on Discourse): https://canapin.com/temp/image0.jpeg https://canapin.com/temp/image1.jpeg Aaaand there are no difference here :thinking: :thinking: And looking again on my test forum here I uploaded the pictures, I see no difference either. Eh.

Yes, that’s exactly how they look in my album but if I post them on FTC they will look lighter and duller. This is something that happened with my old iPhone and is now happening with this iPhone which I’ve had for less than a year. Could it be that the automatic iPhone upgrades are effecting the compatibility? Or is it a Discourse server problem? I don’t know. But I do know that it doesn’t happen on any other medium like IG, text or email (like the above photos), etc. only Discourse hosted sites. Thanks!

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

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rlauriston (Robert Lauriston) February 13, 2023, 8:19pm 34

I didn’t do anything. Which browser do you use?

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

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