Re: Web Site Horror--Feedback requested

Looks fine to me. Could it be that the library PC display was set up for
maybe only 256 colors.

Katharine Thayer wrote:

>So I went online at the library to look at the cyanotype-gum sharpness
>test, since I couldn't access it at home (don't ask me why one of the
>symptoms of the death throes of my system is that I suddenly can't open
>sites that I could access easily last week, like Mark's site and the
>Epson site, but it is so). So anyway I had some time left on my
>10-minute allotment, so I decided to look at my website, just for the
>heck of it. Well, I've hardly ever been so shocked in my life. Most of
>the images look terrible -- dark and dirty, dingy, not at all like the
>originals, or like what they look like on my system (or at least how
>they looked before everything turned pink).
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>So I need to understand this. I was always under the impression that
>there are basically two gammas that you need to be aware of: 1.8 for
>Macs and 2.2 for PCs. When I set up the website, I had the images
>adjusted to look right on my Mac at 1.8 and then remembered that PC
>users would be looking at them at 2.2, so I changed my monitor gamma to
>see how they would look. They were way too dark at 2.2 so I lightened
>them so they would look more right on a PC. This made the images too
>light on a Mac, but I figured there were fewer Mac users and I dispensed
>with them by adding a warning that Mac users should change their gamma
>to "uncorrected" to see the images closer to correct. And I've left my
>monitor gamma set at "uncorrected" (2.2) and the site looks great to me,
>all the time.
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>But this what I was seeing today didn't look at all like 2.2 on my
>system, it looked more like about 2.6 or 2.8. I'm horrified to think
>that maybe this is what people have been seeing all along.
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>For example, the image on my home page
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>http://www.pacifier.com/~kthayer/
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>should have luminous blushing apricots in a dark blue bowl. The apricots
>should look clean and clear and luminous, and there should be some
>detail even in the darkest part of the bowl.
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>If what you see is a black void with some dingy yellow speckled fruit,
>looking like it's been rotting there for a week or more, which is what
>I saw over at the library, I need to know about it, so please let me
>know (offlist would probably be most appropriate). Thanks millions,
>Katharine
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Received on Tue Sep 20 16:36:02 2005