Thanks in advance!

-A

Thanks for your help/

Is it possible to be more specific about the IE browser you are using please (which version) ? IE 6 has been such a problematic browser that Microsoft no longer supports it.

Also have you seen what your blog looks like when viewed in other browsers> See > http://browsershots.org

Go into your Media Library and delete the image you uploaded. Then create new one that is less than 450 pixels in width and upload it.

Picture!

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/1296/grrrf.jpg

I don't know how to show you the image as it appears before posting it on the blog.

I've tried a few suggestion found on previous posts here. I've tried resizing on photoshop to 450px width. i've tried changing the values in size row to nothing. Neither of those things change the image at all.

The reason they were doing this, as I understand it, was to reduce bandwidth usage (most people do not optimize their images before uploading) and processing time, and to help make image-heavy blogs load faster. All worth goals of course, but it obviously needs some more work - which is why it is presently disabled.

I started noticing color loss from iPhoto to WP, and it was driving me crazy. It seems to affect photos differently, and though I don't know see a clear pattern, the worst tended to be those I had adjusted in iPhoto, especially where I had increased saturation. The effect was pronounced fading and lots of pixel noise.

The workaround actually comes from another thread on the subject of animated gifs-- but I guessed that this might be an extension of the same issue, and so it is. Sacredpath is right that you need to circumvent the WP resizing functions by doing it beforehand in Photoshop, etc.--but that alone will not fix the problem.

Once you've resized, uploaded, and inserted your photo to the post (having selected the "Full Size" option), you need to click the "Edit Image" icon (left corner), then go to the "Advanced Settings" tab and delete the "Width" and "Height" values in the "Size" row. Make sure the fields are empty (not "0"), then click "Update", and you should be good to go.

Now the only problem is I've got a masters thesis due in three weeks, and so many bleached out posts begging to be fixed...

Hope that does it for you. Cheers!

1. Determine the "full-sized" image width for the theme I'm using (from the image insert window).
2. Create an image that exact width and save it to the desktop as a different name such as image-500.jpg
3. Upload the original image ( image.jpg )and the smaller image ( image-500.jpg ) I created to the media library.
4. Insert the smaller image I uploaded and link it to the larger image.

Anytime you rely on wordpress and a browser to resize an image from say 2000px in width, down to 500px or so in width to display in a blog post or page, you will have a considerable loss in quality. Even if you are only going from 800px down to 500px you will lose color and sharpness.

I've been viewing my site in Firefox, on my mac laptop. Just opened Safari and looked at the site. The photos in my post above are still faded. However, the other photo on my site (the birds in this post: http://tinyurl.com/ngfwf6) are bright and vibrant again in Safari. Switch back to Firefox, and they're faded.

Crazy!

I think it's especially odd that the photos were vibrant at one point and have since faded. If they had been faded the whole time, that would be one thing. But I did resize them to 100%, like I mentioned in my original post, and they looked so sharp for a few days. I feel like I'm going crazy.

To add to the craziness, the other photo I have on my site -- which was also vibrant and bright -- is now appearing faded as well.

I can't tell if I'm losing my mind or have ghosts haunting my blog. It's frustrating, too, that the sRGB thing didn't help. Has anyone out there experienced this? I'd really like to get this right for future posts.

Thank you so much!

I did that, and they looked great -- sharp, colorful, pretty.

I haven't worked on my blog since Friday, but when I clicked on my url this morning, the images are suddenly faded again! How can that be? They looked great -- and dramatically brighter -- last time I looked at my blog, and I haven't touched anything. How and why would they change on their own?

Here is the specific link to the photos that mysteriously changed:
http://urbanhausfrau.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/no-bag-left-behind/

Thanks for reading -- I appreciate any thoughts or suggestions.