ffrank Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 <p>It just struck me as to why most of the photos I upload seem to be darker and more contrasty than when displayed on my monitor prior to uploading. I don't think P.net makes any adjustments to anyones images except obviously sizing which I suppose could alter the tonal qualities slightly, but I size all of mine to 640 pixels on the long side and so no resizing takes place while being displayed on this site... so that can't possibly be what is affecting mine. Any way I think the problem is the BRIGHT WHITE background P.net uses... which about blinds me if my room is dark. I edit my photos against a darker gray background and think I have the contrast where I want it and then upload. When displayed against the white background on this site minutes after uploading, I lose detail in my shadows and the contrast is too harsh. Same monitor, same image, different contrast. Is this just a visual thing because of the brighter background or is something happening at this site to alter my photo. I always thought it was recommended to edit against a gray backgroud so why wouldn't you also want to display with a similar background. I do convert to sRGB when I convert to jpeg in case your wondering. I don't like using borders and frames around my images any more because of the added file size. Does anyone else have this problem and would photo.net consider using a darker background for display purposes? Thanks</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lex_jenkins Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 <p>For photos I intend to upload to photo.net, Flickr or other site with mostly paper white backgrounds, I edit using a white background. Usually it looks fine against a black background as well, which is good because that's the default view for some slideshows.</p> <p>I've visited several sites that use primarily darker backgrounds. While there's some aesthetic advantage for viewing photos, it's dreadful for reading text.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Laur Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 <p>Just to assure yourself that you're not going crazy, you can create a local HTML file to allow yourself to display the image against a non-white background in your web browser, just to see how it looks before uploading. <br /><br />Just use a simple text editor to create a file called "test.htm" that looks like this:<br /><br /><html><br /><head><title>Background Test</title></head><br /><body bgcolor="#CCCCCC"><br /><center><br /> <br><br><br /><img src="c:\the_image.jpg"><br /></center><br /></body><br /></html><br /><br />And you're all set. Change the image file location to wherever you have your image, and change the hex color value for the page background to various colors...<br /><br />#FFFFFF = white<br />#E0E0E0 = very light gray<br />#C0C0C0 = darker<br />#808080 = darker yet<br />#404040 = getting pretty charcoal-ish<br />#000000 = black</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffrank Posted April 23, 2009 Author Share Posted April 23, 2009 <p>Lex and Matt.......Your right about reading text with a dark background or anything other than white...it's hard on the eyeballs. I'm sure it would involve a lot of work to change the website but even just a gray background around the image might help..... leave the comment areas white. I suppose then you would have people accusing you of putting borders around their work. I'll try the local HTML file and see how it looks against the lighter backgrounds before I upload. Thanks for the quick responses. Fred</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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