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06/09/2010 06:32:30 AM · #1 |
I\'m a new photographer specializing in children. I have recently created a website and am so annoyed at how different my pictures/website appear on different computers/monitors/web browsers. Even the layout appears different. The background doesn\'t line up like it does on my Mac so I have to opt to a plain background. It\'s very frustrating. I edit all my pictures on my Mac at home in Photoshop and they appear perfect to me. However when I view them at work or on our other computers/monitors at home they appear very different. On some monitors, I wouldn\'t want my clients viewing them because the pictures appear so different (dark, color drained, and not near as sharp). I\'ve been experimenting with different settings when saving the images, different color profiles. Tried just about everything and can\'t figure it out. I look at some other photographers websites on different computers/monitors and their images look great on different computers/monitors. I know part of the problem is the resolution of the monitors but why does it seem some photographer\'s websites/pictures appear to not have this problem?
I bought a template on BluDomain for my website. Don\'t know if that could be part of the problem too. Here is my website... sarahrogersphotography.com This is not the final website. I\'ve been playing around w/ the colors trying to get this problem figured out. If you go to my portfolio, you will see I created a \"brighter\" album. For these I simply just brightened the photos a lot to try to help with my problem. It helps some but the images still appear not sharp and desaturaged. You will also see what I mean w/ the layout of the website. Some browsers/monitors require scrolling. My Mac does not. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks!
Sarah |
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06/09/2010 06:41:44 AM · #2 |
This is where the colour profile is very important. The web is based on the sRGB profile however some browsers are profile aware and will be able to interpret other profiles. To be safe, when saving for the web, convert (not assign) to the sRGB profile then all browsers will interpret the colours in the same way.
The next issue is monitor calibration. Most won't have a calibrated monitor so you can't really control viewing in that regard.
For formatting, that largely depends on the resolution the website is being viewed at and to some extent how the website was built.
My site looks horrible in IE 6 but just fine in later versions of IE, Safari and Firefox.
Message edited by author 2010-06-09 10:42:16. |
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06/09/2010 08:51:54 AM · #3 |
| Colette makes excellent points; I'd like to add that normally Mac monitors are set to gamma of 1.8, whereas PCs normally are gamma 2.2; this is a separate issue from color space, and you really can't do much about it, other than to recognize that the vast majority of your customers will be viewing on PCs, and that their monitors will not be calibrated. |
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06/09/2010 09:05:10 AM · #4 |
Originally posted by kirbic:
normally Mac monitors are set to gamma of 1.8, whereas PCs normally are gamma 2.2; this is a separate issue from color space, and you really can't do much about it... |
You can change your Mac monitor to a gamma of 2.2. ;-) |
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06/09/2010 10:24:52 AM · #5 |
| If I change my monitor though then I don't know what my true pictures will look like for print. I've found my Mac is very true to color. This is such a pain! |
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06/09/2010 10:31:20 AM · #6 |
Remember that you don't need to upload your image to see how it will look on the web ... I suggest downloading and installing a variety of browsers, and open up the file from your disk and see how it looks in each. You can also change the monitor gamma to 2.2 to check out the pictures and then change it back.
Is that "rule" about Mac and Windows monitor gamma defaults still valid since they are now almost exclusively LCDs? I thought maybe it applied mostly to CRTs ...
Message edited by author 2010-06-09 14:31:45. |
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06/09/2010 10:36:19 AM · #7 |
Originally posted by sarahrogers07:
If I change my monitor though then I don't know what my true pictures will look like for print. I've found my Mac is very true to color. This is such a pain! |
Welcome to the Wonderful World of Colour Management ;o) |
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06/09/2010 11:14:32 AM · #8 |
Originally posted by cpanaioti:
Welcome to the Wonderful World of Colour Management ;o) |
How can we ever hope to achieve a color match when we can't even agree how to spell it? ;-) |
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