Pentax K10D - Color Changes During Editing

External Since: Dec 28, 2006 Posts: 14

I have a brand new K10D and just finished my first few days of playing.
Weather has not been kind, with several days of rain and gloomy weather.
When I downloaded the first batch I decided to edit a few, primarily to crop
or adjust brightness a bit.

I used Microsoft Office Picture Manager - granted not the editor of choice
for many. It was what I have; and it has always worked with smaller 2-3MP
images from our Fuji point & shoot. During the save part of the process,
edited pictures exhibited a significant color change, especially in the reds
and some skin tones. Many red features in the images changed from natural to
a very bright, artificial appearance. There was no color change during the
actual on-screen editing. It occurred in the final moment as the "save"
dialogue bar completed its scan.

I searched the manual and this forum for descriptions of similar problems
with no results. Am I doing something wrong? Camera settings need to be
reset? Buy real editing software?

Need Help
RonB

External Since: Aug 14, 2005 Posts: 275

RonB <rbrogan DeleteThis @cox.net> wrote:

> I have a brand new K10D and just finished my first few days of playing.
> Weather has not been kind, with several days of rain and gloomy weather.
> When I downloaded the first batch I decided to edit a few, primarily to crop
> or adjust brightness a bit.
>
> I used Microsoft Office Picture Manager - granted not the editor of choice
> for many. It was what I have; and it has always worked with smaller 2-3MP
> images from our Fuji point & shoot. During the save part of the process,
> edited pictures exhibited a significant color change, especially in the reds
> and some skin tones. Many red features in the images changed from natural to
> a very bright, artificial appearance. There was no color change during the
> actual on-screen editing. It occurred in the final moment as the "save"
> dialogue bar completed its scan.
>
> I searched the manual and this forum for descriptions of similar problems
> with no results. Am I doing something wrong? Camera settings need to be
> reset? Buy real editing software?

The problem is very likely color management. Or maybe you're saving as
GIF or something.

Real editing software sounds like a good idea. Smile

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