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Q: light areas affected upon upload to Instagram

i have been googling this and am posting something in an instagram forum and i am hoping someone here might be able to help me figure this out.

 

i have images that i have /exported/ from aperture. i have added an overlay/watermark in one of the corners.

 

this is a methodology that i have been using pretty regularly. i have also been posting many of these images to instagram, twitter, facebook, flickr etcetera.

 

lately when i upload an image to instagram any area that is particularly light get blacked out with a kind of artifacted BLACK figuration. this makes them look miserable and i have not been able to find a filter to fix this.

 

an example is here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/wftigtwg5oga6n8/Screen%20Shot%202016-03-22%20at%206.53 .28%20PM.png?dl=0

 

the images are roughly 500 KB and are  in jpg format.

 

again i have had NO problems with these images in multiple areas with multiple uploads in the past.

 

since there are a /lot/ of the i don'r really want to have to go back into aperture and experiment with exporting in different formats etc.

 

can anyone help me figure this out?

 

THANKS

MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1), 11 inch, early 2015, 2.2 GHz Core 7

Posted on Mar 22, 2016 5:03 PM

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  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Mar 23, 2016 10:41 PM in response to hotwheels 22
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    Mar 23, 2016 10:41 PM in response to hotwheels 22

    Do the photos upload correctly without the watermark? Just to make sure, the watermark is causing this.

     

    Check the color profile of your watermark image.  A wrong color profile may be causing this black areas in the highlights.