Reading a post recently, I was amazed to read that one poster made a statement like,
(I will para phrase) ....some sites want you to oversaturate your images so they look better as thumbnails.

I began to wonder if this poster knew the difference in the different color profiles like Adobe 1998 and sRGB.
I mention theses profiles because they look entirely different side by side on the web. sRGB looks more saturated.

Although sRGB appears saturated compared to it's dull lifeless Adobe 1998 neighbor, Adobe has a wider gamut of colors
and therefore prints better. sRGB is quite limited in the amount of colors, and may be the cause for some "Banding" as seen in some gradients.

Another item to consider is whether the site you upload to converts your thumbnails to sRGB for you.
For that reader who continues to oversaturate his/her images, I thought you might like to know.

Cranky MIZ

(I will para phrase) ....some sites want you to oversaturate your images so they look better as thumbnails. I began to wonder if this poster knew the difference in the different color profiles like Adobe 1998 and sRGB. I mention theses profiles because they look entirely different side by side on the web. sRGB looks more saturated.

That was me, and yes I understand the different color profiles. I have mine set to Adobe RGB in Photoshop but still notice a large amount of color degradation in the thumbnails of most of the big 6 agencies. So if most of them are using Adobe 1998 and I am using Adobe 1998, why is the color so much duller when they make the thumbnails?