Calibrating Monitors
Structures #31 ©2004 34"x53"
I reprocessed this image tonight thinking I should improve it after complaining about it in the last post. It now looks a lot more like I remembered it. Much less harsh - check out the larger image by clicking above and you’ll get a better idea of what it really looked like. I fixed it in the last post but you can compare to the old version here:
Structures #31 ©2004 34"x53"
Thank you to Rachel for reminding me I should look at the quilt national catalog to remember what this quilt really looks like. I can’t remember if the printing in Quilt National was accurate but it looks pretty good so I matched what I saw there the best I could.
When I process images in photoshop I attached a color profile to the image so when it is displayed somewhere else it has half of a chance of appearing correctly. Without this profile each piece of software interprets things anyway they want. With this profile there are some guidelines saying what color is what in the image. Problem is all monitors are different and as Diane pointed out even different browsers are different in how they interpret the color profiles.
I calibrate my monitor to hopefully get as accurate color profile as possible on my images. If the images are displayed on another calibrated monitor it should appear fairly close to correct. All bets are off on non-calibrated monitors (which is most monitors out there). I don’t really understand much about how all this color stuff works digitally but I know just enough to try to do the best I can. I use color plus by color vision to calibrate my monitor.
I spent the last 5 days in Arizona visiting family and enjoying the high 80’s and sunny weather. Tonight and tomorrow Denver is supposed to get another 3 to 36 inches of snow. Ack!
I didn’t read much email during those 5 days so I’ll be catching up with blog comments soon, thanks to all that have taken the time the past few days to write something.
Posted by Lisa in: Art Marketing
Diane Clancy said,
April 13, 2007 @ 6:59 pm
Color management is something else!
I have 2 pastel paintings that different friends took photographs of. One we used lots of color pieces of filmy stuff (I forget what you call it) and finally decided on the strength to use. Eventually I realized all the slides ended up being too saturated in the cyan.
When a friend recently took photos of another pastel in that series, I decided to just color correct on the computer and not even worry too much. Again, the color is pretty saturated, but it actually looks truer to the original by being over-saturated if that makes an sense.
Oh yes, color correction!
~ Diane Clancy