art; photoshop; calibration

[amezri]

LJ has decided to let me comment from my e-mail again. Yay!

I did a little bit of art for Three Fates. Waiting for the authors to have a look at it first before I go on posting it anywhere.

In Schrodinger news, there is something wrong with the color calibration that I just can't quite work out. Photoshop is being a complete bitch and making my color palette look all... off. Too bight and the greys are yellow. The color management stuff is being a total pain. I think I always left it as default before, but now I've switched it to no management and it just.. argh. Looks wrong. Everything looks wrong. Argh. I want to be able to use the sRGB color set but everything looks all messed up.

Following this site, I did some gamma tweaking and... erm. Hm. everything is basically brighter. This, of course, does absolutely nothing with my Photoshop workspace as it's still all jacked up. Ah, fuck it. I turned off Photoshop color management settings.

Doubly annoyed, so I'm using the mood and the icon!

Comments

[springwoof.livejournal.com]

Hmmm....

There's a color calibration tool I've seen for monitors that basically helps your computer calibrate the color that it shows you to the color that it's supposed to show you. (compared to some outside standard you want to calibrate to, that is. Like when you want your "fire-engine red" to really be the shade of red that fire engines are, or somesuch).

It's cute and octupus-or-insect-looking. A graphic artist friend of mine says that its very nifty. (I'm not saying how expensive it might be, though...)

Do you want me to go dig up my references & find out what the thing is called, or does this not help you at all?

(BTW, still working on your fic. RL=very disruptive to fic)

wags, springwoof

[amezri.livejournal.com]

Well, the problem is not that my monitor is showing the wrong colors, because it's not. The issue is that Photoshop itself is showing some really tweaked out colors in the workspace if I am using their color settings.

So.. I guess don't worry about it. I just turned off Photoshop color management.

No worries on the fic :) I'm patient.

[seishin.livejournal.com]

how can you comment from email? I've never been able to figure that one out........ *is a bad lj-geek*

[amezri.livejournal.com]

The notification that gets sent to my e-mail when people leave a comment has a reply form at the bottom. :)

[arysani.livejournal.com]

i dunno what it was that i did either, but when i installed photoshop on my computer at home, it did the same thing. i tried to mess with the color management things, and still nothing. granted, since i don't know the ins and outs of the program, i was shooting in the dark, but still. everything had a yellow tinge to it. not cool. but they would SAVE normally, so i just had to pretend really hard that everything didn't look jaundiced in-process because it would come out fine...

[amezri.livejournal.com]

That sucks, but at the same time I'm glad to know it's not just me. I can't find anything online saying how to fix it or even acknowledging the problem.

What I did was go into Color Settings and set it to No correction. Or.. something. I turned color management off.