Forum: Fractals


Subject: A plea...

MakinMagic opened this issue on Mar 17, 2006 ยท 55 posts


SimonKane posted Sat, 25 March 2006 at 11:36 AM

I use the Adobe Gamma utility that comes with Photoshop too. I've been working on a laptop for the last few months (I'm travelling and my PC and lovely 21" CRT monitor are in storage). Until necessity forced me to get this laptop, I avoided them like the plague: horrible keyboards, trackpads instead of a mouse, and worst of all: one of those terrible LCD screens! One of the first things I did on it was to visit my gallery here to see how my images looked, and I recoiled in horror. My number 1 priority became to get Photoshop installed and see what I could do with colour management. I must admit, that once I'd run Adobe Gamma the results were surprisingly good! My old images now look practically the same as they do on my CRT. The only difference really is that the LCD is sharper (i.e. there's no colour bleed between pixels) which on some of my more textured images results in a more grainy look, but nothing I can't live with. The last three images I've posted were all created on the laptop, and I must admit that I'm slightly nervous to see them on my CRT when I get home. But considering that I'd previously thought I'd never be able to produce any images on a laptop, this is very positive. Anyway, the point of all this waffle is that even using a very simplistic, software-only, colour-profiling tool can produce very good results (between screens at least), so it's worth trying. Best wishes, Simon.