Hey Guys,

This was an interesting guy that I recently photographed named Morgan. I still have a bunch that I have not processed from the shoot, but I thought these were fun.

Now, for the problem. For some reason, these shots are still looking a bit red on my screen when I post them here. In Photoshop, they are looking perfect with a beautiful white backdrop. Thoughts as to what could be causing this? Obviously the strobe on the top right was running a tad hotter than the others, which I can fix in PS. However, the color shift is a bit annoying.

James

I've noticed that several images, especially with a lot of white, look red or pinkish on this forum. I'm wondering if it isn't the green color scheme messing with our perception a bit or making things seem even redder than they are.

That said, I pulled the first one into CS4 and there is a bit of a red cast. I can repost the results if you like, but this is what I did:

Open in CS4.
Duplicate background layer. Then FILTER>Blur>Average.
Added Levels Adjustment layer to the now solid color. Picked the gray eyedropper and clicked on the color to turn it gray.

Turned off visibility of the blurred layer and adjusted the opacity of the Levels Layer to what is my best guess on how the image should look having not seen the dog myself. I settled on 49%.

They are slightly pinkish. The proof though will be in the prints.

If you pull the image into Photoshop, choose the Eyedropper, choose a sample size of say 11 x 11 and run through the background you'll find

Red: 242
Green: 241
Blue: 236

The numbers change as you move around but the blue channel is consistantly 5-8 points less than the other two. For pure white / gray you want them within a couple or three points of each other.

Nice shots of a very rare and unusual pup.

Thanks all. I have a bunch more that I have not processed yet. I was torn on whether or not to clone out the scratches on the skin. I have a great profile shot that shows off his mohawk a bit.

Oddly enough, on my computer monitor at the office, the colors look pretty perfect...so, it looks right in PS on my own computer, and here in the office, but not when I am just viewing in FireFox. Thoughts?

James

What browser do you use in the office?

Are you using the color managed version of Firefox at home?

Jim

Thanks for the super-fast reply. At risk of looking totally ignorant, what do you mean by 'Color Managed Version' of FireFox? What is that? I never heard of it. I am using 2.0.1.2 in the office and 3.x at home (I HATE 3.x...but for other reasons).

Thanks
James

With web viewing the way colors are interpreted by the browser can have a major effect on how an image is seen. That's why the "safest" color space to use for web posting is sRGB.

If, for example, I forget to convert from ProPhotoRGB to sRGB the colors will look like crap when presented on the web to most people. The people that have browsers capable of reading the assigned color space will show the photo more accurately.

Safari has been the only color managed browser for a long time, but Firefox just came out a color managed version. I'll run down and post a before / after to better illustrate what I'm trying to say in a bit.

Best,
Jim