Help "Cover Photo" problems

[Mx.Trinity]

Tell me if you can see a difference in the same image with this image:

To me the top one (that's my cover photo currently) the colors look darker, and I thought it was the theme but I've changed it and the colors are still less vibrant like there's a filter over the cover photo. This was the original reason I changed the photo in the first place because the last cover I had was pure white with an orange sun in the middle, but when I looked at my profile it wasn't white anymore it was like a dull gray.

So is there any way around this? Am I missing something? If you look at deer 's profile on different themes you can see the cover image gets darker on one of the theme but looks normal on the color me theme/default theme. So I'm just... super confused right now.

 

[welian]

Cover photos have a translucent black layer over them. That was intentionally added by the theme/cover photo add-on designers, it pushes the cover photo into the background and emphasizes the user's avatar.

Or it could just be compression being a bitch.

 

[Fable]

Cover photos have a translucent black layer over them. That was intentionally added by the theme/cover photo add-on designers, it pushes the cover photo into the background and emphasizes the user's avatar.

Or it could just be compression being a bitch.

I think on the Color Me themes it's a compression issue. But I'm not all that tech savvy X3

 

[Mx.Trinity]

Cover photos have a translucent black layer over them. That was intentionally added by the theme/cover photo add-on designers, it pushes the cover photo into the background and emphasizes the user's avatar.

Or it could just be compression being a bitch.

I think on the Color Me themes it's a compression issue. But I'm not all that tech savvy X3

I just don't understand why it happens for one user but not another. Like with crucialstar, it doesnt happen with her cover on ALL themes, but for mine it does. welian Fable

 

[Lyro]

Without looking at the style source code, my best guess is that Color Me analyzes the profile image (checking things like color balance, saturation, etc.) and then chooses to enable or disable a cover if a certain threshold is crossed (perhaps to make the contrast less jarring). The default theme on the other hand doesn't do this, or if it does its criteria are different.