mac experts - monitor question

let me ask my question this way....

brief history:

used a dell pc w/ dell crt --> produced great images ive diplayed in the forums.
Went to an iMac 24" ---> produces great images BUT they only look great on my screen, when i upload and post them in the forums they look dull / drab / dark. i have no clue about gamma stuff! I cant resolve that issue sucessfully!


New Strategy:

since i own a iMac 24" with dual monitor support ( i think ) if i hook up my dell crt will all my problems be fixed or is the snag in the software of Mac OS ??

TIA,

win

Perhaps it is your color gamut (i.e. aRGB, sRGB, etc...). If your images are not being converted to sRGB for your web file, you will see exactly what you have indicated. If you are already working in sRGB and your files are saved in that color space, then I am not sure what the problem is.

What color space are you working in?

canoflan wrote in post #3442327
Perhaps it is your color gamut (i.e. aRGB, sRGB, etc...). If your images are not being converted to sRGB for your web file, you will see exactly what you have indicated. If you are already working in sRGB and your files are saved in that color space, then I am not sure what the problem is.

What color space are you working in?

i was afraid of this coz i have to be honest - i have no clue what youre talking about.
when i used my dell i used mostly paint shop pro ( sometimes CS2 ) and it just did it thing, i never new or understood about color space. Id shoot RAW, covert to jpg in CS2, adjust minimally with paint shop pro and upload to smugmug.com and post in these forums. people used to say my image were gorgeous! Now i used a 24" imac, shoot raw adjust with elements 4 looks great on my screen - and kinda sucks when i look at them on the forum. BUT THEY LOOK GREAT ON MY MONITOR!


thanx for any advice u might have given or still have...

win

Ok, what you need to do then is while you are in RAW, at the bottom for color space, you choose sRGB (the other selections shouldn't matter to you if you don't care about them and plus you aren't changing your original anyway) before opening in CS2. Try this...open a RAW file in adobe camera raw and look at the bottom before doing anything else and see what the color space says. If it isn't sRGB, then that is your problem.

windoze wrote in post #3442289
let me ask my question this way....

brief history:

used a dell pc w/ dell crt --> produced great images ive diplayed in the forums.
Went to an iMac 24" ---> produces great images BUT they only look great on my screen, when i upload and post them in the forums they look dull / drab / dark. i have no clue about gamma stuff! I cant resolve that issue sucessfully!


New Strategy:

since i own a iMac 24" with dual monitor support ( i think ) if i hook up my dell crt will all my problems be fixed or is the snag in the software of Mac OS ??

TIA,

win

Ok things to try:

How do your images (that your have posted online) look when browsing on another computer? Do you have some links ?

It is likely that you are not saving the images with an embedded colour profile. Browsers such as Safari (on the mac) are colour aware and use these embedded profiles.

It is very doubtful that it is a problem with the hardware, it is more than likely the way your are saving the images.