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Danzaroonie

Danzaroonie

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I’ll try and explain this the best I can.....

I upload my RAW images to my Imac and reviewing/edit them using aperture 3.

These specific photos are white background shots not really classed as decent high key shots...(thats another matter)

So I edit the photos and they seem to have a fairly good with a white back ground and look ok...I export this as 50% of the size (for my friends review) and upload to flickr...now looking at flickr where the flash might have not covered the whole scene it's slightly greyed...why don't I see this before in Aperture...i could have made the edit before the export...really annoying :bang: me now as most of shots I thought were ok are now need editing...I assume it’s the display calibration on my mac??? any recommendation?

cheers

Dan.
 
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right... and the same size offline looks different to the photo online? What colour space are you using?
 
Yes, if you're putting photos online you should be using sRGB. Although I'm not sure how to check this on aperture.

It may also be because some browsers display colours differently. And I'm pretty sure flickr do slightly adjust things too... my photos tend to look very slightly more contrasty on flickr.
 
Okay,

Think I have locate the exports preferences...it seems I should be using the standard ‘sRGB IEC1966-2.1’ setting for my exports on the ‘Generic RGB’ setting as Aperture has set...Ill give that a go...

cheers

Dan
 
Perfectly normal. When you edit the photos in Aperture, can you change the background to white? If so, you'll see the non whiteness immediately. Have a look here for a great demonstration of how we perceive things. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9Sen1HTu5o
 
arad85 said:
When you edit the photos in Aperture, can you change the background to white?
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And by that I mean the background you're editing the photo on, not the background of the photo you are editing ;) Lightroom (for example) has a default mid grey background that you edit on. You often get a shock when you put your high key images on a true white border...
 
This is really annoying me now, I'm still seeing these issues, :bang:.

http://flickr.com/gp/danzaroonie/6kqMG3 heres the link to all the photos I took and I have labelled the problem photos with "Edit BackGround".... can anyone else confirm with a MAC if this is showing fine or still looks awful. at least I will know its my MAC screen that has the issues.

cheers

Dan.
 
Danzaroonie said:
This is really annoying me now, I'm still seeing these issues, :bang:.

http://flickr.com/gp/danzaroonie/6kqMG3 heres the link to all the photos I took and I have labelled the problem photos with "Edit BackGround".... can anyone else confirm with a MAC if this is showing fine or still looks awful. at least I will know its my MAC screen that has the issues.

cheers

Dan.
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I've not got a mac but I can see a slight gradation from white to a very light grey.
I can also see white hard edged brush marks in the darker areas in some of them particularly in...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/danzaroonie/6346328345/in/set-72157628007315443/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/danzaroonie/6346328295/in/set-72157628007315443/


I've edited this one in Photoshop to greatly exaggerate but better show the brush marks

Mahp0.jpg
 
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Danzaroonie said:
This is really annoying me now, I'm still seeing these issues, :bang:.

http://flickr.com/gp/danzaroonie/6kqMG3 heres the link to all the photos I took and I have labelled the problem photos with "Edit BackGround".... can anyone else confirm with a MAC if this is showing fine or still looks awful. at least I will know its my MAC screen that has the issues.

cheers

Dan.
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Looks like the export/upload is showing the brush strokes you've made to the background. I can see gradations in the background on a calibrated PC monitor.

Care to link to a 16-bit tiff file of part of the edited picture and I'll tell you if I can see it in there.
 
Hmm,

Might have found the cause but unsure why or what should be set...the Aperture RAW Fine Tuning setting have Boost at 1.00, dropping this down to 50% reveals the poor images quality...So should this boost setting be at 1.00? Anyone else confirm the setting they have?

cheers
Dan
 
Hi All,

Just wanted to see if anyone had any ideas on this? Seems like Aperture is applying the RAW fine tuning which works fine when viewing on my IMac but not from anyone else...

cheers

Dan.
 
No idea on Aperture settings, but I was after the raw file edited and just saved as opposed to a 16 bit version of the export. It would be good to look at it before Aperture has "exported" it (if that's possible).
 
The plot thickens....

I will test tonight but I think the issues is the display settings, based on the contrast settings under 'universal Access and set' (it’s not set to normal)....why on earth is this not under the display section.
 
So to summarise what you see. Do you see the photos as "perfect" in Aperture but not perfect when you load them on Flickr on your own screen? What happens if you just export them to a file on your PC? What is happening is a process somewhere is compressing the dynamic range to make the bits you have missed painting in more visible. The question is whether this is the upload to Flickr or the export from Aperture.

I think the way to solve it is to do better editing in Aperture. Whether your monitor is calibrated well enough to allow you to see the differences is another matter.
 
Danzaroonie said:
The plot thickens....

I will test tonight but I think the issues is the display settings, based on the contrast settings under 'universal Access and set' (it’s not set to normal)....why on earth is this not under the display section.
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Ahh.. you think Aperture is blowing the highlights on its own so you can't see the imperfections. That would make sense....
 
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