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digitalfailure

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If I edit an image on my imac, i can get the colours and the details to look great, but then when I view the images on my windows laptop or iphone the image take on a different appearence often I get a real patchy look in any areas where I've cloned over a black section. In fact it goes beyond patchy to shocking :eek:

Viewing net pages and my images editied on the mac look ok, but they really do nose dive when viewed else where :'(

Now, before monitor calibration is suggested, i have an eye-one and it's been used on the mac, I also recently printed some images and they looked 99.5% exactly the same as the screen.

I'm realllllly confused with it all :razz:
 
digitalfailure said:
:thinking:

If I edit an image on my imac, i can get the colours and the details to look great, but then when I view the images on my windows laptop or iphone the image take on a different appearence often I get a real patchy look in any areas where I've cloned over a black section. In fact it goes beyond patchy to shocking :eek:

Viewing net pages and my images editied on the mac look ok, but they really do nose dive when viewed else where :'(

Now, before monitor calibration is suggested, i have an eye-one and it's been used on the mac, I also recently printed some images and they looked 99.5% exactly the same as the screen.

I'm realllllly confused with it all :razz:
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Have you calibrated both computers?

Some browsers run in a different colour gamut, have you tried the same browser/software? (and are they set up the same)
 
The laptop looks awful if I view the images under win xp's image preview slideshow as well as firefox. Both machines are running the same versions of firefox btw.

I uploaded one of the images highlighted as bad on the laptop to flickr, it looks pants on lappy and iphone and great on the mac. Interestingly it only seems to show in dark areas as the whites in the image both look the same.

If the images are edited on the laptop they dont show defects on either of the 3 devices :thinking: so it's got to be either a processing issue or the screen on my 24" imac is off in some way.
 
digitalfailure said:
The laptop looks awful if I view the images under win xp's image preview slideshow as well as firefox. Both machines are running the same versions of firefox btw.

I uploaded one of the images highlighted as bad on the laptop to flickr, it looks pants on lappy and iphone and great on the mac. Interestingly it only seems to show in dark areas as the whites in the image both look the same.

If the images are edited on the laptop they dont show defects on either of the 3 devices :thinking: so it's got to be either a processing issue or the screen on my 24" imac is off in some way.
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can you get one image and edit it on both then upload a link to both so we can see?
 
I'm not sure if I might have just found something thats contributing to the issue in relation to cloning.

Can I ask you to detail your clone settings in the tool bar if you use CS4?

Mine was on

Mode = Normal
opacity = 100%
flow = 100%
Aligned (Y) well tick :)

Now, sample was on Current Layer which turns off the processing on other layers

I've now set it to All Layers and turned on the little button to the right and asked it to process all layers.

A quick image looked like it removed the patchiness which is good, but considering the fact that the mac is eye burningly bright, the laptop and iphone still resolve more detail in the dark areas.

thanks for helping
 
digitalfailure said:
I'm not sure if I might have just found something thats contributing to the issue in relation to cloning.

Can I ask you to detail your clone settings in the tool bar if you use CS4?

Mine was on

Mode = Normal
opacity = 100%
flow = 100%
Aligned (Y) well tick :)

Now, sample was on Current Layer which turns off the processing on other layers

I've now set it to All Layers and turned on the little button to the right and asked it to process all layers.

A quick image looked like it removed the patchiness which is good, but considering the fact that the mac is eye burningly bright, the laptop and iphone still resolve more detail in the dark areas.

thanks for helping
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Mine has the same settings as above. What is the contrast setting like on the Mac?
 
Unless i've missed something somewhere, the only controls for the display is brightness and i'm trying to get used to that on 50% although i find that even minimum is too bright as do a great many other people.

with regards to yours having the same settings, can you confirm the setting for the very last bit as i had a to and from choice :)
 
digitalfailure said:
Unless i've missed something somewhere, the only controls for the display is brightness and i'm trying to get used to that on 50% although i find that even minimum is too bright as do a great many other people.

with regards to yours having the same settings, can you confirm the setting for the very last bit as i had a to and from choice :)
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Sorry, lost t'interweb for quarter of an hour!

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Have you tried to download a test image and see if you can see all the greys?
 
Using the above I find that there is more contrast with the brightness up full!
 
I dont know if this will make any difference however.... I was having issues on my mac with colors etc, I found after I had set the monitor to sRGB IEC61966-2.1 (in the system prefs > Displays > Colors settings, and had a little fiddling to fine tune) and I forced CS4 to assign an sRGB profile when importing images -- things took a turn for the better. I dont know if that any help at all but maybe give it a try :)
 
i cant even get the brightness to stay at the level i set, i have to put the welding mask on before turning the mac on.
 
I'll certainly give it a try rob, thanks

Re the colour management, i cant see a tab in firefoxs preffs for that......will google :)


:eek: Mr C, your settings are as mine were......back to the drawing board i think :(

Matty, i know what you mean........The brightness defaults to full at start up when ever it feels like, as does the volume :thinking:
 
Matty, i know what you mean........The brightness defaults to full at start up when ever it feels like, as does the volume
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I found the same... so that's why its never been turned off in the last 143 days :D


EDIT: the colour management in FF is on - Prefs > Content > Fonts & colours > colours > tick the "use sytem colours" box
 
digitalfailure said:
I'll certainly give it a try rob, thanks

Re the colour management, i cant see a tab in firefoxs preffs for that......will google :)


:eek: Mr C, your settings are as mine were......back to the drawing board i think :(

Matty, i know what you mean........The brightness defaults to full at start up when ever it feels like, as does the volume :thinking:
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Colour management is in the hidden menu. Would need to check but you type something into the address bar....
 
Type "about:config" into the address bar !
 
Right go to the address shown above and in the FILTER box type what you are looking for eg:

ffconfig.png


try gfx.color_management.enabled = true
 
It seems on v3.5 onwards it's a choice of 0,1 and 2 with 2 being the option of CM enabled for profile tagged images only. 2 is my current default. As my images are assigned to an sRGB profile I don't think it's a CM issue.
 
Ok then just doing a top tip re contrast......
 
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