Gallerysave Action

[pigasus]

Hi Pekka,

In Gallerysave your first step is to convert to Lab and then to convert to RGB. Is this your way of getting from Wide Gamut RGB to Adobe RGB? If I have already converted to Adobe RGB (using the action in LinearSharpen), then do I skip these two convert steps?

If this is the case, I'm wondering why you have made the conversion via convert to Lab.

On a more general theme, how do I set up EE to run only on my PC and not on a Web server?

Thanks for everything you have done for those of us with the interest but not the skills. My contribution is on the way.

Pigasus

[Pekka]

pigasus wrote:
In Gallerysave your first step is to convert to Lab and then to convert to RGB. Is this your way of getting from Wide Gamut RGB to Adobe RGB? If I have already converted to Adobe RGB (using the action in LinearSharpen), then do I skip these two convert steps?

If this is the case, I'm wondering why you have made the conversion via convert to Lab.


RBG -> Lab -> RGB is the only way I know to make image non-profiled (Untagged RGB). I've had sometimes very odd results with straight AdobeRGB -> sRGB -> Imageready www export, and it seems untagging before sRGB is the safest way to go.

Of course, the action is only a suggestion.

On a more general theme, how do I set up EE to run only on my PC and not on a Web server?

Install PHP, Apache, MySQL - they are all available for Windows as binaries. Safest way is to install them all to default directories (C:/PHP, C:/MYSQL and C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache). To get PHP working you need to add a few lines to Apache httpd.conf file (can't remember them by heart now, but they are there in php readme's).

When it's all set up, you can browse to http://127.0.0.1 and it get's you to Apache's htdocs directory which is your website root. So if you install EE to "Program Files/Apache Group/Apache/htdocs/gallery/" you can run EE with http://127.0.0.1/gallery/

Thanks for everything you have done for those of us with the interest but not the skills. My contribution is on the way.

Thanks!!! :)

[pigasus]

But when I convert from Lab to RGB (in PS 6) I don't get an untagged profile. After converting to RGB I find that the image has been converted to my working space RGB, and is so tagged. What am I missing?

Thanks,
Pigasus