For my ongoing series of pictures at different times in the past, this was taken two years (and two days, but who’s counting?) ago today.

I have been toying with the idea of going through my digital photos, and seeing where I was a year ago. So here we are.

My friend Mark Wood is in town for the Lifetime show. I know him from Boston, although he is living in Seattle now, working in the same small suburb that I spent a good chunk of my adolescence.

So after much swearing and frustration, I have finally found a Photoshop workflow that works at keeping the colors that I want across multiple browsers. This is old news to most people, but as I am new to the digital aspects of photography I was surprised at how little information is out there in regards to how to exactly how to do this. And I looked in a lot of places, online and off, and asked a lot.

So my new workflow is: Calibrated monitor (duh), work in sRGB, working with View>Proof Setup>Monitor RGB selected and at the end doing Save As… and deselecting Embed Color Profile option. I found that the Monitor RGB simulates what it will look like without a color profile later so that I can compensate for it while I am working on it, and without the color profile the different browsers treat it the same.

It’s really simple, really easy and I feel kind of dumb not knowing some of it before, but hey, we all have to learn, right? Now the problem that I have is with all of the old photos that I have, and going back and fixing them with this new found knowledge.

I went out to Soul Night at the Knockout Club this weekend, where I really like going, because more often than not the bartenders there give me free Cokes. I don’t know why it is that this place does it more than others, but I like it. But the rest of the weekend was spent catching up on homework, which means drawing. Yeah for art school.