Frequent posters: how do you do it? I view your images on two monitors, one at home in subdued light, one at work bathed in fluorescents. Your images look good at both. Mine don't. And just to make it more perplexing, when I print an image that looks good on my home monitor, and post it on the wall under the fluorescents at work, it looks good. And now I read that the pros recommend that work before a monitor be done in subdued light!
How do you do it? Do you prepare images with special settings, specifically to be viewed on monitors in a wide range of conditions? And does anyone know of a book or website that addresses this particular quandary, i.e., how to prepare an image for viewing on the web?
Eric,
it all has to do with rotating the linear distortions to a negative 14 degrees to the vernacular speculations. Once you get that down, its all smooth sailing form there!
Eric, My photos never look as good here as they do on my computer at home.
I flatten the image then size the image so that the longest side is 640 px. Save to Web, optimize the size to close to 200 kb and close the document. I then re-open it and jack up the Hue & Saturation a bit, Save, Close and post.
Eric,
To add to what Mark said, I always proof my images to monitor rgb in Photoshop. That shows how your image will look when you post it to the web. You usually have to add some saturation and levels after you proof it.
When you go to Save to Web, there is a little right pointing triangle in the upper right of the screen. Clicking and holding on that will give you some color options. I've just discovered this and may post the same photo using the different color profiles just to see what difference they make here on the web.
Thanks all, this will give me some to assimilate. Note that Rick L's analysis only applies if your display is roughly orthogonal to the ionosphere; otherwise the alveoli override the asymptotes.
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7 repliesHow do you do it? Do you prepare images with special settings, specifically to be viewed on monitors in a wide range of conditions? And does anyone know of a book or website that addresses this particular quandary, i.e., how to prepare an image for viewing on the web?
it all has to do with rotating the linear distortions to a negative 14 degrees to the vernacular speculations. Once you get that down, its all smooth sailing form there!
I flatten the image then size the image so that the longest side is 640 px. Save to Web, optimize the size to close to 200 kb and close the document. I then re-open it and jack up the Hue & Saturation a bit, Save, Close and post.
To add to what Mark said, I always proof my images to monitor rgb in Photoshop. That shows how your image will look when you post it to the web. You usually have to add some saturation and levels after you proof it.
With regards to matching my monitor with my prints, monitor calibration goes a long way.