Re: Web Site Horror--Feedback requested

From: Jeffrey D. Mathias ^lt;jeffrey.d.mathias@att.net>
Date: 09/21/05-05:07:11 AM Z
Message-id: <43313EDF.6060202@att.net>

Katharine,

A good page of yours to also look at is the "color and pigments".
Although from your description "...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.", the appricots seems OK as you describe, but the bowl may
not have all the blue you indicate (even though more on left side). The
blue seems to have a lot of red. Anyway, it is very difficult to
compare without an original and even then correct viewing light must
then be used.

Two suggestions:
1) What I have found to work well is to keep everything (scanner,
photoshop, monitor, etc.) set to sRGB. It seems as though the industry
uses this as a standard and is the default given to most equipment.
When one goes to your web page, most likely their color space will be
set to sRGB. One of the problems I have had in the past (with photos
from various people for a newsletter) is that if one uses Photoshop
which has a different color space default, Photoshop changes the color
and saves it that way.

2) For critical color presentation, a test image should be included on
your site so that the viewer can adjust their monitor to view the proper
color (space, temperature, gamma, density range, etc.) Probably one of
the most overlooked monitor adjustments is the color temperature.

-- 
Jeffrey D. Mathias
http://home.att.net/~jeffrey.d.mathias/
Received on Wed Sep 21 05:08:49 2005

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