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Why do my photos look horrendous...
3/6/2012 5:04:06 PM
...on the web.
I work on a MacBookPro, so while I'm not precisely calibrated, I'm pretty darn close to where I need to be, and where my third party prints end up. I started doing sRGB conversions a while ago, and it seemed to help alot but I'm still looking pretty gray and dull on the office computers (not that bad cause someone asked me today, "hey, what camera do you use, I want pics that good.) What should I do to further optimize for the users of cheap, uncalibrated colorless monitors?
Example:
Indian Well State Park - Shelton, CT by alexpalasek, on Flickr
I work on a MacBookPro, so while I'm not precisely calibrated, I'm pretty darn close to where I need to be, and where my third party prints end up. I started doing sRGB conversions a while ago, and it seemed to help alot but I'm still looking pretty gray and dull on the office computers (not that bad cause someone asked me today, "hey, what camera do you use, I want pics that good.) What should I do to further optimize for the users of cheap, uncalibrated colorless monitors?
Example:
Indian Well State Park - Shelton, CT by alexpalasek, on Flickr
3/6/2012 5:34:33 PM
Short of getting them to calibrate their monitors or pray for divine intervention... not much. 
A crappy uncalibrated monitor will usually look like a crappy uncalibrated monitor.
Or worse, someone who jacks up the brightness/contrast and messes with all the settings... it can actually get much worse.
A crappy uncalibrated monitor will usually look like a crappy uncalibrated monitor.
Or worse, someone who jacks up the brightness/contrast and messes with all the settings... it can actually get much worse.
3/9/2012 11:59:00 AM
Originally Posted By emsjeep:
...on the web.
... What should I do to further optimize for the users of cheap, uncalibrated colorless monitors?
...on the web.
... What should I do to further optimize for the users of cheap, uncalibrated colorless monitors?
Make sure your web pics are saved using sRGB, not Adobe RGB. That is about the best you can hope for on uncalibrated monitors.
Otherwise, have any users in question go to any of the camera reviews at DpReview.com and adjust their monitors so that they can see the difference in all 26 gray-scale squares at the bottom of all the review pages.
