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Hello,

Thumbnail images in category pages and product pages are with very poor color quality after OpenCart resizes them. The cache is enabled and I did set the compression level in system\library\image.php to $quality = 100, but the colors in the images are still very faded. I don't have problem with file size of the images, but the colors are with less contrast than the original pictures, the products are clothes, so the real colors are really important.
Is there a way I could disable just the color compression/changes of the image?

Thanks.

What type of file are the images? .gif .jpg .png ??

The images are in .jpg format

Do you have a link I could look at ?

Make sure the image color space is in RGB and not CMYK.

The site is not available online yet.
The image color space is in RGB, checked it.
I guess my last option is to arrange the things in a way that the real images to be loaded always, but the problem is that their dimensions are 800x800px and when I use them for thumbnails - width=170px and some of the thumbnails seem to be a little destroyed, not visually looking good.

This is an image, showing the original image color and the color it gets after OpenCart resize it.

Can you attach the original image? I'm still thinking it's a color space issue, such as using Adobe RGB instead of sRGB.

Here is the original picture:



And here is the picture after OpenCart resized it, the color is pretty different...:

Probably it had been a problem with the source image encoding, after Saving it for Web with Photoshop again in the same format - .jpg, everything was alright after uploading it to OpenCart.
Thanks for everyone's assistance.

Yep, the color space of the original was Adobe RGB instead of sRGB. Any color space other than sRGB will have conversion issues when OpenCart resizes images.