Hi gang, I did something today that I've been meaning to do for a long time, namely: fix my web site images so that they display correctly on PCs.
I use a Mac for web design, and because of the slight difference in gamma between Mac and PC monitors, images optimised on a Mac and subsequently displayed on a PC will always look a little darker. This usually isn't a problem with most pictures, but if a photograph is low key to begin with, and is then displayed on a Mac monitor as quite dark, it will be darker still on a PC screen. Not good. I did a bit of reading and came across this really nifty little bit of shareware at http://www.thankyouware.com - it's a little utility that lets Macintosh users (Classic OS and OS X) toggle quickly between Mac gamma and PC gamma (and any saved gamma) via a set of hot keys in any application. It even works in Photoshop, with the Levels or Curves boxes open and active, so that instantly the desired image brightness can be determined at the flick of a key, before applying said Levels or Curves. I'm really impressed by it. Hence, I went through my entire web site and viewed all the pics (crickey, there are a few now <g> ) in PC gamma and duly corrected those that were obviously too dark for PC users to see properly. This means of course that viewers on a Mac will see the same shot a bit lighter than before, but the procedure seems to be one of compromise. A slightly darker image tends to saturate the colour anyway, but can be a bit gruesome. A lighter one is more acceptable in some cases. I suppose the trick is to increase saturation on the lightened shots to compensate. If you are a Mac user and display imaged on the web, have you been considering picture brightness on PCs? Cheers, Cotty ____________________________________ Free UK Macintosh Classified Ads at http://www.macads.co.uk/ ____________________________________ Oh, swipe me! He paints with light! http://www.macads.co.uk/snaps/ ____________________________________
