Weird picture color issue..

[ScottBH]

I'm having a bit of an issue with the colors in my latest portrait shoot. I'm hoping someone can help me a bit. And I apologize if I am posting in the wrong section.

I have a 27" iMac and I have not calibrated my monitor. I know it's important, but I haven't researched it in depth until now.

So my issue.. I did a senior portrait session and got home, uploaded the pictures, and edited them. I sent one in an email to my husband and he viewed it in Picassa, and my client's face was greenish and the colors were off. He opened the picture in the default picture viewer on windows and the colors were perfect, just as I edited it. I burned a CD and we looked at it on his PC, and the colors were fine. The pictures are fine on my iMac in PS, LR, and in the standard photo viewer. But... When I uploaded the pictures to the client gallery on my website, they are that weird color again.. I obviously want them to look good in my proofing gallery so my clients don't think I did a terrible job. Any ideas?

Now, I know the proofing gallery reduces the quality of the images, but it hasn't changed the color that significantly before.

So any ideas on the color issue? Again, I'm not firmiliar with calibration, but I don't know if this would be the issue because the pictures look fine on the CD.

And while I'm on the topic, what do you recommend for calibrating an iMac?

Thanks in advance!

[Rson]

Forget calibration for now. In your mac, select the Srgb as the default color profile. When exporting from PS and LR, select SRGB as the color profile. That should fix it.