Problem Uploading Ink Writing Samples

[ac12]

Amber,

I now understand what you are going through.

I was trying to upload a decent image comparing 2 inks (Diamine Sherwood Green and Diamine Green-Black), and the uploaded image did NOT look like the image on my computer. The image is blurred and the ink color is different (blue cast that makes it look like a blue-green ink) and in no way accurate to the original.

I tried both scanned image as well as a photograph, both did not work.

It was quite disappointing.

[bstnnyc]

i had the same problem in the turquoise comparison I posted yesterday! I ended up removing almost all of the close up images which were coming up blurred and readjusting the colors of the groupshots so that the uploaded image after being affected by the cast would match the paper as closely as possible. I hope that everything goes back to normal again soon because I have another comparison I am working on that I'm hoping I will be able to post close up images for and not having to readjust the colors as much :/

[amberleadavis]

We have several inky TODs about how to color correct and color balance, but I confess, my eyes glaze over. I want to play with my pens, not my computer equipment. I use the CRVs as a way to correct for the color without extra computer time.

 

Anyone have some easy to implement ideas to help us reviewers?

[Oldane]

Anyone have some easy to implement ideas to help us reviewers?

 

 

Image editing programs (say, Photoshop) has hue tweaking options. Start with a well calibrated screen (a device like the Spider (go Google it if interested) will be a help). Make shure the color temperature of your desk lamp matches that of your screen. Then play around with the hue untill the written line on the screen looks like the writing on the paper. After that, you only have to have all those looking at the scan after uploading it calibrate their screens too......

 

Oops, I now notice that you said "easy".

Edited September 30, 2014 by Oldane

[ac12]

Well in my case, my monitor is color calibrated, and the JPG output from PS Elements (PSE) looks good on the computer and reasonably close to the actual.

But the JPG image on FPN does NOT look anything like the output from PSE. For me it is the blur and color shift that is most obvious and bothersome.

[amberleadavis]

Image editing programs (say, Photoshop) has hue tweaking options. Start with a well calibrated screen (a device like the Spider (go Google it if interested) will be a help). Make shure the color temperature of your desk lamp matches that of your screen. Then play around with the hue untill the written line on the screen looks like the writing on the paper. After that, you only have to have all those looking at the scan after uploading it calibrate their screens too......

 

Oops, I now notice that you said "easy".

Yeah... I was going to stop you mid instruction... but you got the idea.

[amberleadavis]

Well in my case, my monitor is color calibrated, and the JPG output from PS Elements (PSE) looks good on the computer and reasonably close to the actual.

But the JPG image on FPN does NOT look anything like the output from PSE. For me it is the blur and color shift that is most obvious and bothersome.

Are you storing the images on FPN or on another site?

[ac12]

 

 

Are you storing the images on FPN or on another site?

 

Uploaded to FPN, which I suspect is part of the problem.

 

I have not used a separate photo hosting site.

[amberleadavis]

I'm thinking it must compress the photos some how. Mine are hosted on my own URL and therefore are not compressed. Have you tried, Flicker or Picassa?

[AllenG]

I'm a photographer by trade. Art photography feeds my soul, but product photography feeds my belly.

 

A lot of my commercial work is shooting catalogs for boutique clothing retailers. You want the colors to be right because a customer doesn't want to buy a blue dress and end up with a purple one. I've gone through the expensive color calibration software, and the monitor software, all that--my eyes glaze over.

 

If you have a program to calibrate the white balance on your monitor, run that.

Scan/photograph something white. Tweak the color levels and hue of that image until the white looks white.

 

Now when you upload that image the image server you use is going to run a compression software on the file. That can change the image, this forum uses compression software on the file when it displays the image, that can change it some too. When I view it on my monitor, which is calibrated differently than your screen, it's going to change.

 

So what I'm saying is that it is all subjective.

Get your white balance set as well as you can an be done with it.

[stevesurf]

I'm a photographer by trade. Art photography feeds my soul, but product photography feeds my belly.

 

A lot of my commercial work is shooting catalogs for boutique clothing retailers. You want the colors to be right because a customer doesn't want to buy a blue dress and end up with a purple one. I've gone through the expensive color calibration software, and the monitor software, all that--my eyes glaze over.

 

If you have a program to calibrate the white balance on your monitor, run that.

Scan/photograph something white. Tweak the color levels and hue of that image until the white looks white.

 

Now when you upload that image the image server you use is going to run a compression software on the file. That can change the image, this forum uses compression software on the file when it displays the image, that can change it some too. When I view it on my monitor, which is calibrated differently than your screen, it's going to change.

 

So what I'm saying is that it is all subjective.

Get your white balance set as well as you can an be done with it.

 

+1 tweaking to white is easiest.

 

If you like automation, this is what I use:

 

http://xritephoto.com/ph_product_overview.aspx?ID=1257#ooid=Z4NnBuMjr2ZGQGcIvlCxUqea6AUq5umc