Archive for the 'Monitor calibration' Category

SmugMug alters my colors! — Updated

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Two years after I posted it, the original SmugMug alters my colors! entry gets lots of passionate comments from smart people.
Problem is, we changed and so did browsers in the last two years.
By customer demand, we now attach ICC profiles to the photos we display if we sense that you’re using a browser like Safari [...]

But it didn’t look dark on my monitor!

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

The great news about monitors is they keep getting brighter. But the brighter they become, the more people are disappointed by dark prints.
Dark prints are now the #1 reason prints are returned:

The problem is, the brighter the monitor, the more dark shots look normal. But while monitors get brighter each year, prints never [...]

Mac browsers: can you believe your eyes?

Monday, June 27th, 2005

Photos look different on the Mac than on Windows, and different in different browsers.

Why ICC profiles don’t fly on the Internet

Saturday, June 25th, 2005

They’re too freakin’ big

smugmug alters my colors!

Saturday, June 25th, 2005

Why Photoshop and your browser may not agree on color.