Adorable toddler...Feedback please...how is the color and PP?

NJMAN · Mar 21, 2008

souljourney said:
This is my most recent play. What should I have the color settings saved to for the web...AdobeRGB or sRGB?

Definitely set your color space to sRGB when editing in photoshop. You colors will be much more accurate from PS to web posting to printing.

EJBPhoto · Mar 21, 2008

Love the most recent edit!

souljourney · Mar 22, 2008

NJMAN: Thanks.

EJBPhoto: Thank you! :mrgreen:

The_Traveler · Mar 22, 2008

we definitely have a difference among monitors here.

I think either FlashHarry or N'Kolor are closest to nice baby skin. The OPs photos look muddy and brownish.

I just went back and recalibrated my monitor with Gretag MacBeth One-eye and they still look the same. Are you (OP) using a hardware device?

Have you gotten successful prints lately?

All of them need a little sharpening, IMO.

JerryPH · Mar 22, 2008

There is definately a need to see these pics on a monitor that is calibrated, but more than that, I see all the pics as being too soft. They look *almost* lightly out of focus, but thats becuase of the lack of sharpening.

The colours also look a little washed out, not too vibrant.

souljourney · Mar 22, 2008

I printed two of these and they came out fine...not muddy, washed out or soft. They are all sharp as a tack...no softness to them. I have viewed them on four screens so far, three screens they look fine and this screen they seem soft, even though I know they are not at all. I use Colorvision Spyder2Express to calibrate my monitor and just did so this week.

Here is a thread for another photo I just shot and edited (using Lightroom on my monitor just as the other images) that, on my screen and in print, looks insanely vibrant and sharp as a tack. On this screen that I'm on right now (not mine, not calibrated) it looks dark and soft.
http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=116314

I'm gonna chalk this one up to a vast difference in monitors.