When I am admiring my masterpieces on my home computer they look truly awesome.
Before I upload them to forums for instance, I find myself altering the contrast and saturation just to make them look better at lower resolutions.
Is it just me or does everyone do this?
Soup, I sure wish I could help you here because I have simular problems. My photos are getting better but most of the time when posted here they seem to " loose " a lot. Maybe someone would be kind enough to show how they go from a raw file to the final upload here.
Thanks for your post, hope I didn't butt-in to much
Mike
My pictures are in srgb.
What I mean is:
I make wb and sharpness adjustments to the raw files.
I save them as TIFFs and then tweak them in whatever editor I have at the time and all is well.
I then save a copy in srgb jpg.
Finally downsize and compress for web.
If I were to upload the image at this time? it would almost certainly be lack-lustre.
So I then change almost everything to make it look good/better for forum use.
I dunno? perhaps I should have stuck to crochet' or basket weaving.
I have photos on two different websites, NAPP and ModelMayhem. They are RGB. I've noticed this at both sites-the thumbnails are dull and lack color saturation, but when I click on the thumbnail to open up the photo, it looks fine. Does this make sense?
I use Adobe Photoshop CS3 as my workflow, camera set to Adobe RGB along with my Photoshop workspace. Monitor is correctly calibrated.
Adjust RAW file for WB and exposure as needed
Convert RAW files to TIFF
Adjust, crop and sharpen TIFF files as required
Batch action on TIFFs to create a set of full size JPEGs in RGB colour space which I store.
Batch action on TIFFs so add watermark, resize to 800x600 pixels, convert sRGB and save as Size 12 JPEG.
Works fine for me.
In moving from CS2 to CS3 I noticed on my website some of the colours looked dull and flat, in fact a fellow FM'er pointed it out to me. I traced this to the convert to sRGB part of the action wasn't working after the upgrade so I had to go back to the RGB JPEGs, fix the action, reconvert and upload to my website, they look fine now.
JDeV wrote:
I have photos on two different websites, NAPP and ModelMayhem. They are RGB. I've noticed this at both sites-the thumbnails are dull and lack color saturation, but when I click on the thumbnail to open up the photo, it looks fine. Does this make sense?
Jon
It makes sense, what OS platform and browser are you using?
Really, you should be using sRGB for web display....
Ultimately, if you are happy with the way your images look though, great.
Alistair Watson wrote:
It makes sense, what OS platform and browser are you using?
Really, you should be using sRGB for web display....
Ultimately, if you are happy with the way your images look though, great.
Alistair, I use Mac OS 10.4.1 Safari. If you go to www.modelmayhem.com and look at the 2 headshots of "Amanda" you'll see what I mean. I just did those in the last 2 days. My number there is #593166. I just now checked it out to make sure I wasn't imagining this due to lack of sleep, but it still looks like I described.
Adjust the onscreen gamma as for windows at 2.2, and the white point to D65. Smugmug recommends this as do several other sites. It worked for me.
Make sure that sRGB is attached when you export. Safari is color managed and should show your work as you did on your monitor. If you are using Aperture, be sure to check the color space in the export tool.
, but it still looks like I described.