> > For me the jury's out on the various Google properties. I've distrusted > Picasa in the past as the images looked suspiciously munched to me. I know > that Google+ is just reusing the Picasa facilities and photogs seem happy > with that, so maybe Picasa is ok now. I'm not sure what Blogger does with > their images.
I think Blogger is a google property, too... all the images on my blogger blog are "hosted" by picasa by default. But, I take your point about google+... it seems to have been very enthusiastically embraced by the photography crowd, so... how bad could it be? (That would be a rhetorical question...) > > I think that Posterous and Tumblr treat images with respect. My experiments > so far are good. > > > Here's something to consider. If you are editing your images starting from > RAW (12-14 bits) and in the AdobeRGB or ProPhoto colour space, on a > calibrated monitor, then when you convert-for-web (ie compress and reduce > colours to sRGB JPEGs), they are subject to the possibility of changes due > to out-of-gamut colours in your original. You are causing some pretty > serious dithering to occur by reducing down to sRGB 8-bit JPEG and depending > on your source image, something visible might have to give. Yes, but I have been comparing the saved (in srgb) jpeg, opened in firefox, say, to the same jpeg that was loaded to blogger, also viewed in firefox. So, I'm not comparing a RAW file to the jpeg... apples & apples. > > The same thing happens when you prepare for print as printers can't > generally reproduce the same large gamut as is in the image. Is it any wonder I haven't waded into the world of printing...? :) > > Another thing to think about is your editing on-screen environment versus > your web viewing environment. For instance, when you edit do you position > your image on a neutral gray background? When I open images in Photoshop I > always do so on a separate monitor, full-screen with a grey surround fill. Yup.. I edit in LR on the medium gray background, full-screen. My desktop is a neutral gray color as well. > > It's a jungle out there ... :-) Where's Tarzan when you need him? Thanks, Bruce. :) -c -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
