Re: Web Site Horror--Feedback requested

Thanks for suggestions, Jeffrey and all....

Everything has always been set to sRGB, but it's interesting that you
and a couple of other people remark that on your monitor, the bowl has a
red cast, or even looks reddish brown. There shouldn't be any red in the
bowl at all; it's a deep navy blue that shades into black on the right
side. Someone suggested that I should have chosen the option to
"optimize for the web" which made me laugh, since my most recent version
of Photoshop (5.0) still assumes that the only place an image would go
from Photoshop would be into print publication; it offers no option to
optimize for the web. (After spending myself into the poorhouse keeping
up with the cutting edge of digital imagining from 1990 to 1998, I
stopped buying software and hardware at that point, and have bought
nothing but a new flatbed scanner since then).

I was thinking that if I ever get time, I'll re-adjust all those images
when I get a new system with new Photoshop, properly calibrated, but
then I remembered my other horror: I don't have any way to transfer the
original scans to a new system. My old system is SCSI and everything now
is USB; the computer guys tell me there's no such thing as an adapter
that will translate one to the other. If anyone has a good idea for how
to not only save my files but be able to transfer them to a new system,
I'd be most appreciative. My brother who was the systems guy for a
corporation says he can't think of a way, unless I had a place to FTP
everything to and then download it from there to the new system, which
would take days but at least would be a solution. But at any rate I
don't have such a place. I've held onto this old thing for so long, for
another reason because I've got Hypercard stacks with thousands of cards
that I started in the early 1990s to store my research for writing. When
I moved to this computer in 1998, it still ran the Hypercard I had from
before, but the Mac guys tell me that the newer systems don't, and
besides, how would I transfer the information anyway.

Up a creek without a paddle?
Katharine

Jeffrey D. Mathias wrote:
>
> 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 09:19:57 2005