Photoshop Tip

For those of you who use photoshop to process your images I ran across something that might be of use to you.

You may have noticed that your images lose some saturation when they are uploaded to the internet. I have heard that this can be avoided by using the "sRGB" color profile. However, I still notice considerable desaturation.

While trying to make sure my images were, indeed, in the "sRGB" profile today I ran across a great feature that prevents the loss of your original color.

Under the "Edit" menu, scroll down to the "color settings" option.



This will bring up a dialog box where you can change various settings.
If you view it with the "more options" button enabled you will see an option to desaturate by 20%.



This effectively gives you a preview of what the image will look like once it is on the web.
From there, you can re-saturate it up to the way you want it to look. I used the sponge tool, but you could throw a hue/saturation adjustment layer over it just as easily.

Save it as a JPG and when it uploads the image will look normal.

Updates

Hello everyone.

I trust you are all having a great week so far now that Monday is over.
It is pouring rain here in the big D and that makes me want to stay in bed and watch a movie. But I won't since that would be a big waste of a day. Instead I have made some minor updates to the Radiant Squares website. I've been toying with some ideas for new galleries or new layouts but nothing too major yet has happened. Of course I will keep everyone up to date as things do change. I'm just one of those people who can't leave well-enough alone and I always feel like there is something I need to be changing or upgrading.

I would like to throw an invitation out there to any other photographers reading this.
Some local photographers and I are organizing a little meetup (probably towards the beginning of November) and would love to have people join us. You can check out the discussion for it on Flickr. Should be a fun time!

Well I'm off once again. I have some images that I haven't edited so I am going to go do that. Maybe I'll post a tutorial later on. Hope you all have a great day. Stay dry!