02.26.07
Converting images for the Web
One of the pitfalls of trying to master a new skill on your own is that you can easily miss something quite fundamental without someone to give you guidance. Over the past few months I’ve been wondering why my uploaded photos don’t look as colorful as they do on my computer. Fortunately today I encountered a blog post that told me exactly why. Turns out that I have been using the AdobeRGB colorspace for everything when I should be converting an image to sRGB before saving it for upload (sRGB is the colorspace that a web browser uses when it renders images). I have a lot more to learn before I get really competent processing RAW files.
So, I apologize. Look forward to more colorful pictures in the future!
Susheel said,
May 5, 2007 at 12:46 pm
Wow! I was totally unaware of that! All my work is targetted at print and CMYK conversion so I’ve never saved anything to sRGB! I suppose thats why Adobe Photoshop Lightroom has the option to convert to sRGB before saving! Thanks for directing me to the post. Its likely to save a lot of trouble!
wingerz said,
May 6, 2007 at 10:55 pm
Glad to help! Have been enjoying reading old entries from your blog!