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01/09/2009 10:55:40 AM · #1 |
I did a search.
I tried the foxfire color management on it, and my photo turned out nice, but everything went from white to a warm yellowish white on all my other pages. I made sure all my settings where as they should be in PS. Just wondering how I can make sure my image is being seen as it should be and that I am seeing other images as they should be.
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01/09/2009 11:05:39 AM · #2 |
OK...I just did a 'save for web' and it's displaying the color correctly.
Can someone explain why this is? |
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01/09/2009 11:07:32 AM · #3 |
because...
ummm because it...
Oh heck, I don't know.
Message edited by author 2009-01-09 11:08:33. |
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01/09/2009 12:27:24 PM · #4 |
Whoever writes a tutorial explaining once and for all how Mac and PC handling of colour profiles differ, the differences between print and web, and what tickboxes need to be checked in the various editing softwares deserves a lifetime membership.
Personally, I find this topic very confusing, and I often see posts along the lines of 'the photo looked fine in PS, but when I uploaded it it was washed out in IE, but okay in Firefox (or whatever)'
Or put a checkbox in the software that says something like 'I want this image to look exactly as I see it now on my screen regardless of which browser or operating system it's displayed in' ! |
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01/09/2009 01:02:03 PM · #5 |
that would be ideal i guess. but color is one of those things we are designed to see in a specific way ( though even from person to person colors look different ). our eyes see what is reflected back at them. however color in a digital sense is basically a number crunching exercise. and everything you view digital color on crunches those same numbers differently....
so a basic knowledge of color management is pretty important IMO if you are a digital photographer.
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01/09/2009 02:02:16 PM · #6 |
The simplest way (for me anyway) to look at this is as follows.
Input --> Colour conversion/interpretation --> output
The input is the image how we see it in the editing program based on whatever colourspace is used.
Output is the device we want to view on or print to. This device may or may not understand colourspaces or may have built in assumptions.
Input is point A and output is point B. To get from point A to point B one of two things needs to happen.
1) colour numbers understood by A need to be converted to numbers understood by B
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2) colour numbers in A are interpreted as colour numbers in B. This is what most browsers do as they assume the colourspace of the image is sRGB.
If the output device understands colourspaces then some internal processing is done so the output looks the same as the input (or very close).
Clear as mud?
In terms of printing, you tell the print process what colour numbers are in the source image (colourspace)and the profile the printer will be using to print the image. When you hit the print button, the print process converts the colour numbers of the source image to the colour numbers of the output.
Message edited by author 2009-01-09 14:05:14. |
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01/09/2009 02:26:09 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by JH:
Whoever writes a tutorial explaining once and for all... |
//www.dpchallenge.com/tutorial.php?TUTORIAL_ID=26
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