Just when I think I have it licked, something like this shows up.
I calibrated my screen a while ago to match the colours I see in the Flickr uploads, because I want to know that what I’m uploading is matching how I manage colours in Adobe Photoshop CS2. It seems a little counterintuitive because it’s the monitor colours that also affect what I see uploaded to Flickr — chicken and egg, egg and chicken — but the point of this exercise is to get the colours as close to a match as I can.
It seems to be something that rears its coloured head every six months or so.
This has got to be the most glaring example of the mismatch I’m talking about, a photo I shot this afternoon in RAW after brunch (didn’t take a photo this time, but it was a Buddha Bowl at Juice For Life, similar to this) on my way home.
This is a screen capture of what it looks like to me, in PS (click on the pic to see the discussion in Flickr):
This is what it looked like uploaded to Flickr — completely desaturated! [Note: if you're using Safari it won't look desaturated.]
I thought something had happened to my Adobe colour profile, but I checked the profiles of previous uploads and they’re the same. Nothing’s changed, except I converted the JPG from RAW and maybe the mismatch lies in the conversion. Argh, I’m going to make dinner and see if food helps me find a solution.