{"id":773,"date":"2024-05-07T11:43:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T11:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/docs\/loss-of-color-and-saturation-when-uploading-images-to-wordpress\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T08:43:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T08:43:27","password":"","slug":"loss-of-color-and-saturation-when-uploading-images-to-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/knowledge-base\/article\/loss-of-color-and-saturation-when-uploading-images-to-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Loss of color and saturation when uploading images to WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Have you ever noticed that uploading an image to WordPress makes it lose saturation and\/or color? This is a common issue in WordPress, <strong>unrelated to ShortPixel<\/strong>, as our plugins always keep the color and saturation of the original images when optimizing them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The explanation is simple: most of the pictures taken are using the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adobe_RGB_color_space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adobe sRGB color space<\/a>, while WordPress uses the RGB color space. Then, when an image using the&nbsp;Adobe sRGB profile is uploaded to WordPress, it is automatically converted to RGB, and therefore it may lose some color pop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to fix this so your images look on your website as they do on your computer, here&#8217;s how you can do it: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbeginner.com\/wp-tutorials\/how-to-fix-image-color-and-saturation-loss-in-wordpress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to Fix Image Color and Saturation Loss in WordPress<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever noticed that uploading an image to WordPress makes it lose saturation and\/or color? This is a common issue in WordPress, unrelated to ShortPixel, as our plugins always keep the color and saturation of the original images when optimizing them. The explanation is simple: most of the pictures taken are using the Adobe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[36,35,37],"glossaries":[],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-773","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-autoptimize","doc_category-shortpixel-adaptive-images","doc_category-shortpixel-image-optimizer"],"blocksy_meta":[],"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":128,"total_views":"2559","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"admin","author_nicename":"admin_mdli53m5","author_url":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/author\/admin_mdli53m5\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Autoptimize","term_url":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/knowledge-base\/category\/autoptimize\/"},{"term_name":"ShortPixel Adaptive Images","term_url":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/knowledge-base\/category\/shortpixel-adaptive-images\/"},{"term_name":"ShortPixel Image Optimizer","term_url":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/knowledge-base\/category\/shortpixel-image-optimizer\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1666,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/773\/revisions\/1666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=773"},{"taxonomy":"glossaries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossaries?post=773"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}