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November 29, 2018
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My photos look off when in the previews

  • November 29, 2018
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When I have my Dreamweaver opened in split mode, the colors in my images are dark, however, when I pull it into the live preview in my browser it looks like it's super foggy. I'm not sure if it is something I did in my coding or not. Is there anything I can do or is it just a visual glitch?

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sdjames93Author
Participant
December 3, 2018

Everyone is suggesting that all I need to do is go back and start over. I have the pictures exactly as I need them. When I use one picture as a hero it is foggy yet when I use it as a picture just placed on a totally different page (in the same file with the same settings) it is perfectly fine. All I'm essentially asking is "is it because it is being used as a hero image? And must I honestly go back and change things in the original file in Photoshop, because that would require a long time of tweaking to make it look how it is supposed to?"

BenPleysier
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 3, 2018

An image, if shown at the same size, should be the same whether or not in a hero.

It could be that the hero has style rules applied to it to make the image look foggy.

The best way to get assistance from us is to upload the page to a (temporary) remote location. That way we can see the problem in situ and be able to analyse the problem.

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Per Berntsen
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 29, 2018

Are you seeing something like this?

Design view is not color managed (at least not on Windows), and images will display over saturated on wide gamut monitors.

Live view, and most web browsers (except Internet Explorer and Edge) are color managed, and will display correct colors.

What is the make and model of your monitor?

And are you on Mac or Windows?

pziecina
Legend
November 29, 2018

Just to add to the Per Bernsten reply.

If you want color managment in IE or Edge, then you must save images with the icc profile.

Per Berntsen
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 29, 2018

pziecina  wrote

If you want color managment in IE or Edge, then you must save images with the iecc profile.

IE and Edge may claim to be color managed, but they're not. For color management to work, the application has to convert the colors from the document profile to the monitor profile, and IE and Edge don't do that.

pziecina
Legend
November 29, 2018

You will probably find it is just a visual glitch, as you said.

It may be worth checking your images actual size and compare that with the actual space it is using in a browser. If the image is not of a high enough quality, (or if you are using a hi-dpi monitor or device with a standard image) then that will also give you the problem.