The Learning Curve of Posting Art

by Tokon

It seems I'm never going to start learning about being a digital artist. It seems I've been screwing up the color in my pictures. So I'll be fixing a lot of my pictures so that things will look as good on the computer as they do on my iPad.

I'm going to try to remember to not notify ya'll but I'm sure I'll miss it on a few pictures and I'm sorry about that.

Edit: This was not a screen calibration issue. This was an issue with websites and monitors trying to translate a color profile (P3) that they do not have. Most sites and even monitors use a color profile calls sRBG. With out first converting my images to sRBG websites and some monitors where trying to convert my images to sRBG. However, this caused some images to be muddy and washed out looking. To correct this I had to manual convert the color profile in a program like Photoshop or Affinity. By converting it the color was more well maintained as the program understood how to do this properly.

I'm sorry for any confusion I caused. ^.^

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Added:	3 years, 7 months ago 16 Oct 2020 04:29 CEST

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GreenReaper

3 years, 7 months ago

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Issues with colour profiles? It could be your computer has crappy calibration on its monitor as well. I use DisplayCal with a ColorMunki Display colourimiter (it's been discontinued now, but it was basically the same as the X-Rite i1Display Pro but capped on speed).

Tokon

3 years, 7 months ago

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@ GreenReaper

I thought this as well at first. My roommate does this type of work for a living and his monitor is professionally color corrected. We found that even on his monitor the art I post was still muddy looking. Together we found out a couple things. First cause i use an iPad I was using a color profile that many websites may not support and even if they did people monitors may not. We also found that the way I was saving while changing the dimensions caused the program to assign a color profile to the image that was different then the original. For some images this didn't matter a whole lot. The colors in the images there more more grays and browns so it didn't lose anything. However any image with reds and purples, such as my Odysseus pictures, suffered as the assign color profile did not know how to translate these colors.

My roommate showed me how to convert the color profile of my images. This helps it retain the bright color palette that I used.

I’m gonna be honest here. I don't know 100% how it works or why. I do know that there is a noticeable different in my art posted on all the websites post on, if I convert the color profile before saving the art rather then letting it assign one. It really seems like witchcraft to me LOL.

GreenReaper

3 years, 7 months ago

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@ Tokon

Yeah, there's definitely issues if you go outside sRGB. Here on Inkbunny we strip colour profiles from uploads, because not only do they tend to inflate file sizes, most browsers still deal with them inconsistently, and most users don't know what's up; it risks looking inconsistent (or outright broken) for them. You'd need to "save for web" (in sRGB) to get the expected result.

Usually relative colorimetric or perceptual is the right option to use if you are converting. The difference is that relative will change the white point but clip colours that are out-of-range, while perceptual will try to scale them up or down to fit into the new colour space. If you have been using colours outside of that, perceptual might help you avoid areas of solid colour - but because of that it almost certainly will change colours from the original.

We've been looking at deep colour support and different gamuts, but frankly a lot of screens out there are just terrible anyway, although things have been slowly improving, I'd be very glad just to see everyone with a reasonably-accurate 100% sRGB coverage.

Tokon

3 years, 7 months ago

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@ GreenReaper

Thank you! Thats what me and my roommate figured as well. Ive been slowly converting my art to sRBG starting with those images most affected. Ive seen a big improvement in how the images looks on the site, so I’m grateful for that.

Thankfully he knows how to do scripting in Photoshop so he run all my images through the script and convert everything easily and quickly. Then i just need to reupload... everywhere. LOL

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