Photos on disc look terrible--help please

[deana]

Hi,
I burned about 100 photos from zoombrowser to disc. They were unedited but looked pretty good considering. I took the disc to work and the photos popped up in exporer and netscape and looked horrible. They were mostly very dark. Anyway around this? I am sending this disc to someone I am hoping will ask me to do some work for them along with several of the pictures edited and printed. I do not want them to bring up the pictures and see this. Any advice is greatttlllyyyy appreciated.

Thank You,

Deana

[ejwebb]

Could be a couple of things:

Is the monitor at work an LCD (like on a laptop)? Photos normally do not look the same on these monitors as they do on a CRT.

What were the monitor settings at work as far as color temperature, contrast, brightness, etc.? They might not be optimal for viewing the pictures and are probably different than your monitor at home.

Web browsers cannot recognize many of the colors in some digital images as the software has a more limited color gamut (or range of colors) than most photo management software.

Did the photos look better in the photo management software? Did you pull up full-size versions to review or did you just look at the thumbnails in zoombrowser? Those smaller images can look much different than the real things.

It would be helpful to tell us more information regarding the camera and the computers/monitors used to isolate the differences. If the photos looked good when you reviewed them and the prints came out well, it is likely that the viewing software/monitor at work are the issue but it is hard to tell from what you have given us.

Hope this helps!

[scottbergerphoto]

1. Unless your monitor is calibrated, there is no way to know how they will look on someone elses monitor. It also helps if their monitor is calibrated.

2. If your image is anything other then sRGB, it will look different if opened up in a non color managed environment like windows explorer or some other image viewer. For viewing images on the web or to give on a disk to someone who isn't going to print it in a color managed environment, it's best to convert the images to sRGB

Scott