Unwanted Gravatar photo auto-leveling

  • mehdec · Member ·

    It seems that if a photo or picture uploaded to Gravatar’s cropper doesn’t have jet black, it will auto-level the nearest grey to black and darken the whole image, including darkening whites into greys. Can confirm that this occurs with any PNG image that has a grey background or has a large enough proportion of it, whether or not it has 255 whites and regardless if it has alpha-blending or not.

    I’d like to ask why it does this and why there isn’t an option to turn it off. It may be an option to ask to do so if the image is detected in the 16-235 RGB range or similar, but don’t automatically crush colours. Even Youtube asks for permission to “correct” things you upload.

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