I had a weird thing happen on the way to the forum; the ESS forum.
I do my main imaging on my desktop. I then make jpegs, and some of those jpegs get sent to my laptop via ftp. So today, I took a Jpeg from my laptop, converted from sRGB, adjusted hue and color balance, and the image came out looking way over saturated from what I saw on my laptop; not darker, just saturated like it took a saturation bath.
I'm positive I didn't boost the saturation slider, but I used the soft proof for 'monitor' in PSCS2. The delicate purple sky went completely cyan, so I re-adjusted the hue and color balance while in soft proof mode.
This afternoon when I came back to check comments from my desktop, I was startled to see how over saturated the image was. I went back to the original Jpeg copy on my desktop, and repeated all of the same steps, and the image came out almost completely normal.
So what would cause my laptop to be so far off base when using the same steps and soft proofing method as I would on my desktop?
Any ideas would be helpful, as it's a bit of a mystery to me.
Posted by Richard Wong on March 15, 2007 at 10:54 PM
I dont. I don't even know the purpose of soft proofing. maybe I should, so my web images would look as good as the real ones. lol
Posted by Bob Steele on March 16, 2007 at 10:32 AM
Gary,
Is your desktop monitor calibrated/profiled and your laptop not? If so, that would explain the problem. Even if your laptop is profiled, it still may be the problem. Laptops are notoriously difficult to calibrate/profile accurately and typically can't be relied upon for color (especially if it's an older laptop).
"View>Proof Setup>Monitor RGB" is the correct way to soft proof an image that's been converted to sRGB for web display.
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I had a weird thing happen on the way to the forum; the ESS forum.
I do my main imaging on my desktop. I then make jpegs, and some of those jpegs get sent to my laptop via ftp. So today, I took a Jpeg from my laptop, converted from sRGB, adjusted hue and color balance, and the image came out looking way over saturated from what I saw on my laptop; not darker, just saturated like it took a saturation bath.
I'm positive I didn't boost the saturation slider, but I used the soft proof for 'monitor' in PSCS2. The delicate purple sky went completely cyan, so I re-adjusted the hue and color balance while in soft proof mode.
This afternoon when I came back to check comments from my desktop, I was startled to see how over saturated the image was. I went back to the original Jpeg copy on my desktop, and repeated all of the same steps, and the image came out almost completely normal.
So what would cause my laptop to be so far off base when using the same steps and soft proofing method as I would on my desktop?
Any ideas would be helpful, as it's a bit of a mystery to me.
Is your desktop monitor calibrated/profiled and your laptop not? If so, that would explain the problem. Even if your laptop is profiled, it still may be the problem. Laptops are notoriously difficult to calibrate/profile accurately and typically can't be relied upon for color (especially if it's an older laptop).
"View>Proof Setup>Monitor RGB" is the correct way to soft proof an image that's been converted to sRGB for web display.
I was going to mention the laptop calibration as well. That's what it sound like to me.