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04/16/2009 05:26:49 AM · #1 |
I use a Mac for my photography stuff.
I have a calibrated screen (Adobe1998) and the colors are beautiful. My screen brightness is 3/4.
When I process images on my Mac, they are beautiful on my screen, but everytime I look at the pictures on a PC i feel like dying because the shots always look much blander.
Any MAc user with this problem? How do I fix this?
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04/16/2009 05:54:51 AM · #2 |
| Thats pretty much the way it is with Macs. You have to get used to the difference, and always process a few notches brighter and more saturated than is comfortable to your own eye. I still struggle with that problem occasionally, but you do get used to it eventually. The other thing you can do is set the screen to Windows settings - can't remember exactly how to do that, but if you go into preferences I think you'll find it there. It darkens everything you see, which is a shame as the beauty of the mac is the screen brightness, size and resolution, but pointless if you're sending your shots to windows users. |
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04/16/2009 06:15:01 AM · #3 |
View -> Proof Setup
I use Monitor RGB
when editing select View -> Proof colors |
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04/16/2009 09:21:10 AM · #4 |
get a hardware calibrator. I use iOne. great stuff. Use the monitors (Apple Cinema Display) ICC profile, Set the gamma to 2.2 (most Windoze stuff), white point a medium white (6500) and I have my monitor luminance at 130. Having the hardware calibrator will make it look right back to a Mac monitor....and your pics will look the same no matter where you view them (considering you save it right. :) )
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04/16/2009 10:22:22 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by smyk:
I have a calibrated screen (Adobe1998) and the colors are beautiful. When I process images on my Mac, they are beautiful on my screen, but everytime I look at the pictures on a PC i feel like dying because the shots always look much blander. |
Your problem is your profile. Here are two photos taken with the exact same settings in AdobeRGB and sRGB and uploaded without conversion:
 
There's actually a wider "gamut" of colors available in the AdobeRGB image on the left, but the web assumes you're working with sRGB and discards all the extra color info, so the image appears dark and muddy as a result. You need to do two things to solve the problem in Photoshop:
Choose "Edit > Convert to Profile > sRGB" so you're working with the same set of crayons the browser will use to draw your image on the screen. Then, make sure you select "View > Proof Setup > Monitor RGB" to preview your image as it would appear on a typical web browser. It's usually a good idea to edit in AdobeRGB so you're working with all the available color data and then convert to the output profile as the final step (be sure to preview with an appropriate proof setup afterwards since conversion will kick your preview back to the default setting). |
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04/17/2009 05:44:30 AM · #6 |
| How can you set the monitor luminance to 130, I have been trying to do this for the past couple of weeks when using a monitor calibrator without success. |
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04/27/2009 08:22:57 AM · #7 |
Scalvert!
Now that's what I'm talking about! Thanks so much. All my recent entries have this damn problem... Thanks again
Message edited by author 2009-04-27 08:23:29. |
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