I thought it was my eyes originally, but for the last few months the photo's i have uploaded appear to be slightly darker than my originals.
Is it me seeing things ???

No, this isn't a moan, just need my mind putting at rest!

I've seen a similar thing with my photos, some appear less clear also. The same thing happens on ME too though.

Mind you I have also noticed my photos look different on our different computers, especially on the new plastic led screens.

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There's all sorts of variables that determine how a photo looks.

Barney - it's possible that the web browser you're viewing the images in displays them very slightly differently, or has different colour handling, to the software that you view the images in when they're on your computer.

Redlion - when the photos are uploaded they are run through a couple of industry standard image handling components to resize them and slightly optimise them for speed of download. I've deliberately coded it so that the optimisation is very slight - much less so than a lot of other sites, which is why user uploaded images are sharper on here than a lot of sites that allow user uploads. And available at the supersize size due to a don't care policy on the disc space!

But in a nutshell, the same image will look different on two different computers, and quite possibly in two different software packages on the same computer!

You should see the stick we web developers get when a certain type of client realises this! And then refuse to accept there's nothign we can do about it :lol: :lol:

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I had an idea that something like that happened Simon, I'm more than happy with the way they turn out though.

Mostly I'm only really taking my photos for the sake of recording what machinery/artefacts actually exist at the time I take them, I like to record the small details too, I know only too well that some of these places will be lost soon enough, unfortunately. I've seen it happen from when I covered some of the mines in the 1980's.

It is much faster to upload on here though than on ME I find.

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Actually it's even more complicated than I outlined ;)

For example, the following could all result in different looking images:

Computer a + video card a + monitor a
Computer a + video card b + monitor a
Computer a + video card a + monitor b

Or any mixture of the above.

Or even:

Computer a + video card a + monitor a + software package a
Computer a + video card a + monitor a + software package b

Even the type of connector seems to alter things - I've just had a new PC and I'm running two screen both off DVI-D outputs. Before that I ran one monitor off DVI-D and one off a standard VGA cable and despite the fact the monitors are identical the colours were different. Now they're running off one card with the same connectors the colours are the same!

And that's even before people start changing their colour profiles within either their photo editing software and/or their system setup ;)

It's all good fun 🙂

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Ah, thank you, thats cleared my mind!!!