quams with photoshop RGB profiles

during the whole 'which leo is your favorite' thing i pulled a picture of my high yellow RW albino off of VMS website. unfortunately i could only save it as a 900 k BMP (bitmap). so i figure ill throw it in photoshop... at which time the color manage prompt pops up asking me if i would like to assign a RGB profile to the file im opening. i end up picking the default... Adobe RGB (1988) and with the click of the mouse i watch my picture go from this...

i cant believe the difference! i personally hate when an animal is misrepresented but i feel as long as you dont manipulate the picture that you are being honest (you cant always control the light). unfortunately Adobe, with its color management profiles, has made it possible, with the click of the mouse, to make a picture appear much more vibrant.

you can open a picture in photoshop and designate the profile 'sRGB IEC61966-2.1' to it to see (what appears to me, based on pictures i opened in photoshop using that profile) the true color profile of the picture.

i havnt seen her yet but i sure hope she looks more like the second picture...although ill be happy either way....lol.

She looks great in both photos! Please post a pic after you receive her too.

Next time choose to not assign it any color profile. See what results that gives you.

As for which profile looks best on your monitor, that will vary from user to user. Your monitor has its own profile. That's why it is important to include the color profile when you save the picture, so that it is viewed on other computers using the parameters that were used when originally saving the composition.

yeah being a mac user i think i tend to see things a little more vibrant at home than they appear on my DELL at work. you go through the process of setting the gamma correctly on a mac and choosing a monitor profile but i set up DELLs here at work (part of my job as a tech-e) and have never been asked to adjust gamma or pick a monitor profile by the windoze OS.


i just went into control panels>display>color management on my DELL at work here...

and seen that there wasn't a profile loaded at all. i ended up setting it to the monitor brand im currently using. i see no change.

VIVA LA MAC!

p.s. kelli once i get the high yellow rainwaters (tues. or wed.) i will take pictures of all of them and post...

I'm a linux user, but I use windoze for photoshop. My next computer will be a Mac.

i only have a 1 ghz eMac but i love it the same...

wait for the prices to drop on G5s...its bound to happen soon. they are really fast... and come with Panther (an os built on the unix OS DARWIN).

dont get me started on computer talk... the true geek in me WILL shine.

here's a normal pic of my J-LOW with a cheap crappy digital camera that I have.