Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 05:34 PM 3/8/2006, you wrote: >Man I know some folks must begin to think I'm an idiot for this time >after time, but I'm looking at the results I get against how much >better would this photograph be if I did all the other fixin' some >folks go through? > >ted Ted - You're not doing anything wrong. It's only when you get into converting the photos for the web that you might get into trouble. My files from the Canons look great without any color adjusting but they include a much wider range of colors than can be displayed on the web. The web uses sRGB which is a very small gamut compared to some of the print gamuts. If you are shooting in sRGB, you won't see any difference at all, but I shoot in the widest possible gamut because a lot of what I do ends up being printed either on my printer or at a lab which can use more colors than the web. When you convert from the wide gamut used for print files to the smaller gamut used for the web, the software makes decisions about which colors to clip so they will fit in the smaller gamut. I was making the mistake of just assigning the smaller profile without first converting the profile to sRGB so the software had no idea which colors should be clipped and just did it randomly with awful results. If you go in Photoshop to Edit > under Color Settings you will see Assign Profile and Convert to Profile. I was Assign instead of Convert. You can try it for some photos and see what a drastic difference it makes. Hope this helps! Tina Tina Manley, ASMP http://www.tinamanley.com