Hi Robert, can you check you uploaded an image using the sRGB colour space please? I suspect you used Adobe Pro RGB. This supports a wider colour gamut and subsequently looks a bit off when it's converted to WebP format in sRGB to show on the site.
The UKC version also looks as though it has lower resolution. The difference between that and the original is enough to take it from a 5* picture to a 4*, IMO.
A lot of photos on UKC suffer from compression because the native resolution of the photo is larger than UKC displays it by default. You see this when you click into a photo and then for many photos you can click again and seemingly 'zoom into' the photo (i.e. viewing it at native resolution). The two steps before that are compressed renderings of the original file and usually look a bit soft (compared to the native resolution). I think...
Thanks. I have a look, though I am clueless about these things.
Does seem odd when others are having the same issue. And the photo I posted and then removed because it looked so poor was dealt with exactly the same way as other photos at the same time which appeared fine.
> The UKC version also looks as though it has lower resolution. The difference between that and the original is enough to take it from a 5* picture to a 4*, IMO.
I'm viewing them both on a UHD screen just now and there's so little difference between them I'd not consider it affecting the score in any way whatsoever.
> I'm viewing them both on a UHD screen just now and there's so little difference between them I'd not consider it affecting the score in any way whatsoever.
That will be because I have replaced the photo with an sRGB version, so they should be the same!
Glad to hear it and it wasn't just my eyesight! Having said that, there must have been a dramatically big difference to warrant dropping one star. I almost always score a photo based on content/ subject, framing and what might be called 'artistic merit'. I can't remember mentally tweaking a score based on an image being a bit flat or slightly less sharp than it could have been.
I first noticed it when I put on a photo which I was really quite proud of a couple of days ago with rather subtle light. This thing really killed it and I took it down again. i'll sort out an sRGB version.
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