Re: pinhole day - and scanning my negative

In signing on with some stock sites, I asked them the very question you
did, which is how they make their images show reasonably well and "pop"
on screens of their potential clients, who are both Mac and PC users.
Everyone gave me the same answer:

Gamma 2.2, and

Use sRGB color space; convert at the very next to last step, then
sharpen for web as the last step.

sRGB color space choice seems to have the most effect on having
web-viewed images look good. Sharpening second most effect. I've
messed with different gamma in my files and it didn't matter. From what
I've been told, browsers don't do color space, so the conversion to sRGB
is to get it to something that is least common denominator for computer
video cards. When you view an Adobe RGB file in a browser, you're
viewing it through sRGB without benefit of thoughtful conversion.

Gamma is a local setting, and again doesn't flow through the browser.
The gamma/srgb is so that jpg files on a disk, viewed locally without
browsers, will look their best.

Richard Heather wrote:
> Check your monitor with Zone Zero's calibration page:
> http://zonezero.com/conectate/index_calibracion.html
> My gamma was 1.9
> You could send me a scan and see how it looks on my screen.
> Richard Heather
> rheather@slonet.org
>
> Jeff Dilcher <dilcher@hiddenworld.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 23:59 -0700, pinhole-discussion-digest wrote:
>
>
>>>And, I wonder how many folks have posted for all six years?
>>>
>>>Michael Georgoff
>>>San Jose, CA
>
>
>
> I have posted all years!
>
> I still haven't uploaded my pic this year yet.
>
> I am obsessing over my scan and contrast adjustment.
>
> Does anyone know a clever way that I can visualize what most
> user's typical contrast is on their monitor? I don't know if my
> home computer is typical. My picture is very low key- i.e. mostly
> dark tones- if I upload a "too" dark rendition, it will be
> hideous on most people's monitors. I tried viewing it on
> my computer at work, and was suprised how much darker it
> appeared on that computer.
>
> -Jeff Dilcher
> Atlanta, GA
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