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- breed
I have a meeting with a client tomorrow who I am going to to be doing a site redesign for. The client is a company that makes marble tile and one of the reasons (there are a few others) they are unhappy with their current web presence is that the tile colors on the site dont match the actual tile. Basically when I go into this meeting I want to sound like I know what I am talking about.
Does anyone know of any decent resources or articles on how colors appear on different monitors? And ultimately how to get the best representation across multiple types of monitors? Thanks.
- breed0
buuuuuuuuuuump guess i shouldnt have waited until midnight to ask ;)
- meok0
First, explain to him that theres nothing you can possibly do to have the images looking the same on every display in the world. The best you could do is to display a pretty close match when the site is being viewed with a calibrated computer display.
That said..
Seems to me that the problem as to do with the photography and post-processing of his images more that with his website.
The best simple workflow for accurate product colors:
-Shoot the product with a gretag-macbeth color-checker card. http://www.gretagmacbeth.com/ind…
-In photoshop, make a curve ajustment layer, then set your white, black and midtone point from the color-checker card. This is to remove any color cast from your image.
-before using the "save for web" feature, convert your working space to sRGB.
hope this helps
- slappy0
I hope im not captain obvious but,
process the photos on a pc, becuase most of the world will be viewing on pc. the mac and pc colour gamuts are really different.
- puter0
there is absolutely no reason to process on a PC over a mac- you can choose your viewing color in PS to CMKY. Windows, Mac, whatever- or even set a different color profile to match that on a PC...
- breed0
thanks everyone for the help.
meok - the pictures really have nothing to do with the full redesign. He's not happy with the design in general, and it was also very sloppily done. The design doesnt fit the company or the product in any way shape or form. The original designer went for a flash-heavy futuristic look. This company sells marble tile to contractors...
As far as the pictures are concerned - they do need to be redone. They are low quality photos, there's glare on the tiles in some pictures, and the lighting was different in each photo. I'm going to try to get samples to bring into a friend's studio and shoot them. I should be able to improve on the quality, I just want to be able to explain to him that there is no way it will ever be a perfect representation.
- slappy0
yeah PCs have darker screens...
- tomkat0
theres this gammax tool for switching pc and mac gamme
look in the osx thread
- slappy0
stupid gamut whats it good for...