Did you intend for the bg to be brown? I like it but it'd look much better if it were black, IMO...too late now of course....congrats on making it to finals...
Zync.... time for a monitor adjustment, my friend... there may be a "hint" of a red read due to ambient lighting.... but if you put an eyedropper on the lighter it reads black... and if you move to the background, while the reading will float all over the scale.... the scale itself, remains black.
I will tell you that I see images a little warmer on my Powerbook display than I do on my 23" Apple Cinema display.... I run the two of them as a multiple display... so I can drag images from one to the other... I still don't see brown. I use the "Color LCD" setting for the laptop at 1280x854, Millions of Colors. Maybe yours is set up different?
i was going to say this might be a MAC vs. PC issue because i know they have differences,,, but i see zync is on MAC also...
well,,, sorry to say, i am on PC... i think alot of us are here to learn so i hope i aint out of place (as a new member) going to offer some of my experience
if you wanna test what is really black OR what is really white then open levels on the image and drag the middle (gamma) slider or the way to the left OR right,,, the only pixels that wont change are those that are true black OR true white,,,,,, ( yes, there are several other ways todo this)...
HOW to fix
if you didn't save a selection for your subject then I would try this ( and i know it might only very slightly degrade the quality of shadows in your subject)...... FIX=== drag that gamma slider to black (gamma value=9.99)... now you can see what isn't black... then drag your black slider until the background really is black (i found a value of 16 was required for this image)... then reset your gamma to 1.0.
i am just learning about color management... i think matching across monitors is very hard and then printing is another issue, while still keeping the greatest range... i'll keep trying tho
John, outstanding job with this one, all your images jump out and grab me. I love your lighting and subject choices, I wish I had just a couple of drops of creative jucies.
Jason: Sorry... I didn't see your post. Another simply way to check color accuracy is to use the eye dropper and custom pallette in Photoshop. If the eye-dropper gives you readings (RGB or CMYK values) that total out to black... and you see brown, it's time to make some adjustments.
