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Photography F.A.Q (Last Updated: 2025 Feb 20 6:43 am)
Subject: Trouble with Image Background Please Help
Hi Chris
Firstly is it a laptop or desktop pc - Laptops are notoriously difficult to get showing the correct colours often the only solution is to compensate for it if this is the case.
If it is a desktop pc then it is an issue of colourspace and profiles.
Are you using PS set up to colour manage images ?
Do you assign colour profiles to your images ?
If shooting or converting the image into a colour space other than sRGB are you converting the web copy ?
It is difficult to name the reason and solution until I know what settings you are using in PS and how much if any you colour manage your images.
You have mentioned calibration - this is not a calibration issue. Calibration is setting up your pc to show images how everyone else who has a calibrated monitor will see them. It does not affect how images are viewed between different applications as it way of defining how images are viewed in all applications.
I have in previous threads given a basic set up to view images on the web and to use for basic printers in a simple colour managed way suitable for many home users.
I am more than happy to expand upon this further for those who want to get the best out of their cameras and high quality printers but I don't have the time right now (on my way to work).
hth - the start to finding a solution is to look at colour management and how PS views images.
Richard.
And every one said, 'If we only live,
We too will go to sea in a Sieve,---
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!'
Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies
live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to
sea in a Sieve.
Edward Lear
http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/jumblies.html
Attached Link: Colour space
Quick link to get you started.Click on introduction > Color Space from the menus
I am not advocating this as the only way, or the whole solution, as there are many things on the site I don't agree with, but it is a start.
And every one said, 'If we only live,
We too will go to sea in a Sieve,---
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!'
Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies
live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to
sea in a Sieve.
Edward Lear
http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/jumblies.html
alternatively if it is plain black, just get the burn tool out and burn the hell out of the background... then you know it will all be black ;)
"In every colour, there's the light.
In every stone sleeps a crystal.
Remember the Shaman, when he used to say:
Man is the dream of the Dolphin"
Rich Meadows Photography
Attached Link: http://http://www.gretagmacbeth.com/index/products/products_color-mgmt-spec/products_cm-for-creatives/products_eye-one-display.htm
Always thought a properly calibrated monitor is essential for making prints that match the monitor image!btw, i use gretagmacbeth
No regrets!!!
Another way I tried (in paint shop pro) was to cut out the subject if it was a simple one and then open a new window with a black (or whatever colour) background and past the subject as a 'new selection' or 'new layer' I used this in my 'strawberry butterfly' in the 'unexpected accolades' compilation in my gallery. There should be something similar in PS. Jenny
if u open photoshop, there is a tool that look like a fist, thats the burn tool
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Hi Everyone,
Today was playing with new light tent i have. Placed the different coloured background material and played with speedlight.
Then i cropped and edited using CS2. Well i like the photo so uploaded it. But when viewed on here the black background showed different shades of black on it. But when working on image in CS2 and enlarged its black background was beautiful and solid.
Can some one help me and would this be calibration problem with pc or CS2 different from RR?
Chris:b_confused: