On 12/11/04, Karen Nakamura, discombobulated, unleashed: >Coty - that's what I thought. I'm on a Mac and I save using the sRGB >color space, so theoretically it should be OK on Jim's PC, but I'm >not sure......
Yeah, it's the Mac gamma - different from PC gamma. A pretty good explanation can be found here: <http://www.devx.com/projectcool/Article/19953/1954?pf=true> further info: <http://www.photoshopsupport.com/tutorials/cb/gamma.html> and for Jim ;-) <http://www.goodallartists.ca/gamma_settings.htm> When I optimise pics for the web (and I'm on Macs) I tend to brighten it up a bit in Curves as a compromise. This means that a pic will be a tad lighter when viewed on a Mac than i would have liked, and a tad darker when viewed on a PC than I would have liked, but hey there's much more important things in life to worry about... The ideal solution would be for everyone to be on Macs, er I mean for every web site displaying pics to have two sets of each web page - in fact two separate sites running in tandem that can be accessed by either PC or Mac as necessary :-) To be honest I'm not that fussed. Pics displayed on a web page are a pale reflection of the high quality originals that can be seen (say) as a print - monitors are too dark or too contrasty or the colours are kaputt - nine times out of ten, what the viewer sees is nothing like what I'm seeing, or I *want* them to see. IMO, a web pic is an approximation of a photograph I have made. It's as near as dammit for the media being used to view so what the heck. HTH Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.com _____________________________ * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
