February 12th, 2007
Learning to Make Mistakes
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.
February 16th, 2007 at 8:46 am
[...] Update: I was wrong about this last part, and have since found a better workflow. 6. Why in the hell is it called unsharp mask? One of the little tricks with digital photography is sharpening. (And one of the things that I wish we had when I was doing film photography) Almost every digital shot can use a bit of sharpening, no matter how focused it is. It’s just part of the game. There is a technical reason for it, but we won’t get into that. Just trust me. [...]