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What have I started

Mic.

Classic - someone’s going to have a great Easter

Chris, hows ya headache

How did this image look to you

Brightness a bit down ?
& lacks a bit of punch ?

Or

O.K. ?

Mic.

That's a great catch of a happy moment... Good stuff...

mic wrote:Chris, hows ya headache

How did this image look to you

Brightness a bit down ?
& lacks a bit of punch ?

Or

O.K. ?

Mic.

Headache gone - brightness is down and does lack punch

O.K

Now this is what I have learnt

My shots look great on some monitors.
My shots don't look that great on some monitors.

I know I'm in Adobe 1998.

I think I will put it down to everybody including myself as having different monitors and different settings applied to their monitors.

I might have to up the Saturation a bit & brightness ?

Also, what I think might be the correct brightness, others might not agree with either. ( could be personal taste )

Whatever the case, I think I'm alot better after yesterdays exercise and pretty close to the mark.

I can't believe I'm the only one here that seemed to have probs

Anyway I'll plod on and see.

Mic.

Blame it on my monitor perhaps but I'm seeing a VERY slight greenish cast on Morgan's (?) face and hair. Anyone else see it or is it just me?

Please tell the voices to stop...

Mic

Great candid and one happy camper I'd say. The colours are wrong for me too. It may be a colour space issue given the web doesn't display adobergb properly. Have you seen this post of mine where I had similar problems and a solution?

Stubbsy You are a bloody legend, I just wish someone, someone , might have let me know about this if it has been such a problem. I'll investigate tonight and hopefully nail this one in the coffin for good.

I've got better thing to do rather than worry about this annoying CRAP like this.

Like taking photos

Mic.
I'll but you a beer one day if this works.

mic

Also appears you are a Mac user. Macs and PC's have different colour gamuts. The following is from the SmugMug site:

Macs come with a default gamma (brightness) setting of 1.8, whereas PCs are set to 2.2 (darker). The reason is the heritage of the Mac: pre-press production for such things as magazines, where the standard is 1.8.

Unfortunately, the standard for the web is 2.2. So unless you set your Mac monitor for 2.2 (the TV setting), images that look correct on a PC will look washed out on a Mac. And images adjusted for a Mac will look too dark on a PC.

A very detailed link on this is http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/gamma_mac_pc.html

Edit: And you might also like to check out this little utility (caveat I am a PC user so the prggie could be shite).

Below is your original pic with colour space set to sRGB. When I compare this to your posted image inside Internet Explorer there isn't a huge difference, but you'll notice the skin tones (look at your daughter's hands) are different. I'm guessing you're victim of gamut more than colour space.

Cheers Stubbsy,

Yes, that one you have posted is a tad better, even on my Crappola work monitor I'm on at the moment.

Thanks for the Link, I've printed it out and taking home tonight to play with.

Once again, Thanks Mic.

What I see on my monitor is quite often not what I get back from the photo lab. I think I should ditch my LCD and get a CRT monitor that has more control.

Have been looking at this monitor adjustment site and can see some shortcomings with my LCD that I can't adjust:

http://www.sergiopessolano.it/english/galleria/monitor_adj.htm