I am trying to figure out something, When I post a picture on my blog for previews or whatnot, I lose all pop in my color and alot of contrast and sharpness... How are you all keeping the images looking to awesome but keeping short load time? Also I notice alot of you use LARGE JPGs on the blog and there still popping w/ fast load time, Can anyone share the process? I am so frusterated, same thing is happening when I upload images to the customers preview gallery I'm using ezphotosales cart and the images are losing all vibrance there too, since they're so small when uploaded..Any suggestions?

Regarding the color issue - it could be that you are using one color profile, and then when it's saving it for web, it's switching to another color profile.

As for sharpness, if your blog (or any site your pictures is on) is displaying the images at a larger size than what the file actually is, that could cause them to look skewed or not as sharp.

Do you have examples?