Title: Color changes after processing
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Color changes after processing

 *  [diggeridoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/diggeridoo/)
 * (@diggeridoo)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/color-changes-after-processing/)
 * Hi, I’m testing this handy plugin and I found that after processing the images
   its color has changed and it appears dull and lightly desaturated.
    Not sure 
   if the process erases the rgb profile or what, but image color quality is very
   poor compared with the original.
 * Is there some way to improve/solve this issue?
 * Thanks!
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 *  [Jason](https://wordpress.org/support/users/verysimple/)
 * (@verysimple)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/color-changes-after-processing/#post-4578884)
 * There is a JPG quality setting in the Imsanity settings which defaults to 90,
   I believe. You might try playing around with that as a first effort.
 * Imsanity uses the underlying functions in WordPress to do image manipulation.
   In turn, WordPress uses a library called GD. If Imsanity is creating poor images
   then all of images generated by WordPress would be problematic because they’re
   both ultimately using the same function to do the scaling.
 * If the images are *really* bad then I suppose the server could have an old version
   of GD or just be otherwise misconfigured in some way. If what you are saying 
   is that the images appear slightly less than *perfect* to your discriminating
   eye, then it could just be that the quality of GD is not good enough for your
   needs.
 * GD is not known to be the best image processor in town. WordPress can be configured
   to use ImageMagick which is much higher quality with a plugin like this one: 
   [http://wordpress.org/plugins/imagemagick-engine/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/imagemagick-engine/)
   I don’t have any experience with that plugin, though, it might be worth a try.
 *  Thread Starter [diggeridoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/diggeridoo/)
 * (@diggeridoo)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/color-changes-after-processing/#post-4578929)
 * Hi Jason, thanks for your complete and clear response.
    I’ve been testing the
   images and I think GD is deleting the embed image profile. Yeah, this occurs 
   with all images processed with WP since it uses the same engine.
 * I have tried to install imagemagick as you suggest but it requires some server-
   side installations and my provider doesn’t support this, so I can’t report results
   here.
 * Anyway, these color changes are light and I suppose assumable for general use.
   
   The easiness and versatility of the plugin wins.
 * Hope developers improve GD library in future!

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/color-changes-after-processing/#post-4578929)
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