White background

[martin-images]

Maybe its me but white web pages or very light dont suit a lot of images especially BW with BW it gives a wrong impression of tones and glares when viewing, dare i mention say digital grin and my own smugmug site use a darker shade and for me images look far far better and easier to view, is there a reason why and can it be user changed

Martin

[JBMUK]

I know what you mean martin, some images dont show at their best sometimes if the background is not pure white and some images do show their best with a darker background...

Im hoping when Stemmys spyder arrives my picture colours will be must improved on the laptop and desktop machines.

[martin-images]

I know what you mean martin, some images dont show at their best sometimes if the background is not pure white and some images do show their best with a darker background...

Im hoping when Stemmys spyder arrives my picture colours will be must improved on the laptop and desktop machines.

I calibrate using the spyder and the difference is amazing best £ spent ever regreted it

Martin

[JBMUK]

I calibrate using the spyder and the difference is amazing best £ spent ever regreted it

Martin

I will try out martins machine and then when I am back on my feet will look into getting one myself.. but its good that is improves the output on the screen

[Stemmy]

Ok Ill look into it - I think i can set up different skins and people can choose the colour they want

[Recess]

I know this doesn't help much, but when I was first 'taught' about TV editing etc, I was always told to have my background of any PC/Mac set to gray - so there would be no colour, nor brightness/darkness issues confusing what my eyes saw.

It does actually help. The saturation levels may seem nice when you're viewing over a blue background - but change it to grey, and it's WAAAAAY too colourful - same goes for blow-outs on white, and too much contrast on white.

My current background is a cat... go figure...

Just my twopence worth. WHICH, by the way - why do I have to give you twopence for my rant, but if you ask me, you just want "A penny for my thoughts..."

I think I've been done here... :blum2:

Recess

[tonymidd]

The general concensus is to use a light slate grey background in PS ( the RGB is 119 136 153 hex code 778899) this is about the same as 18% grey
The same goes for web pages with images.
Colours can affect you colur visual colour balance and black can have a devistating effect on a mono image which is why one needs to be carefull when using large black frames.