Okay, so I'm far from classing myself as a graphics designer or anything like that. I'm just f$!king awful with graphics 90% of the time. Well I've been given a few really small graphics jobs to work on, BUT, the weird as hell part is that when I try to do anything with graphics, the colours ALWAYS look washed out to hell, faded, pale, etc. I mean even taking a screenshot of a website, it's really weird. Viewing a website looks fine, there's no issue, but it's as if my PC captures colours differently to how they're redered?
That part about the rendering, I may very well be talking a loa dof s!@t. I don't know...
Now keep in mind, the images are both exactly the same, I just copied one image using the Windows snipping tool, and the other via print screen + crop. - I didn't save the image in a different format, and I didn't do anything to the images that SHOULD change the colour/vibrance of the image. You can see the second one just looks totally awful, horrible even.
Yeah, my monitors in work, they're not exactly IPS or cutting edge, even for their time, I'm sure they're the bottom of the range kinda monitors, one's that probably cost less than £100 from new.... But I didn't think it would play that much of a role on things like how images look...
Ignore the resolution, it's the colour that's the issue, honestly, I've not run into any resolution issues before, that was just my bad tbh.... Some colours look fine, as they're meant to, it just appears to be specific colours, and I have 0 idea what's causing that to happen! ... ...
Look at the size difference of the gallery buttons.
So which is the snip tool and which is the screenshot + crop? I'm guessing 1st = Snip tool 2nd = Screenshot + Crop
There's clearly some extremely heavy image compression + resolution scaling going on when you screenshot with one tool via the other. And I'm pretty sure It's an explicitly set setting somewhere
I mean even the layout positioning has changed in the bottom one vs the top.
Just list everything you are using.
OS Version Browser Version Website details (This looks like it's a website banner of some sort) Screenshot + image editor tools Any other things that affect the screen, like f.lux, graphics drivers other shit like that.
It looks like you are using one color profile to view images and a different profile to edit with. It is critical to make sure that EVERY profile on your system is the same. The color profiles used by Windows, your Browser, and image Editior should all match up.
sRGB is usually the default setting for web and Windows. I prefer to work in AdobeRGB. A wider color space (think HDR = high dynamic range).
SWOP is for printers. Pick the one that comes with your printer driver. There is usually a SWOP profile for regular, high quality, photo prints or different papers (dot gain), but selecting 'let the printer handle color' is often good enough.
Have you ever noticed if you hold a marker onto paper, the ink will soak in and the mark grows bigger = Dot Gain. Sometimes a dark image will print darker and reducing dot gain compensates for that. But who actually uses paper anymore? me
Again, I'm just going to ignore all things mentioned about resolution, just because I know that's not the or even an actual issue, as I've said...
I will, just not right now, IF I'm honest, I kinda cba to go through that effort right now, got other things that need to be done
TRUST ME, it is only the colours that are being affected.... At least I'm 99% certain it's only a colour issue.... I mean I don't see any positioning issue, like you mentioned? - The arrows aren't a part of the image and the white border, that's just a part of the webpage, I didn't do the best of jobs when it comes to cropping the image out of the site... Sure it looks more low res and blurry, but that's expected when you zoom in & out...
Same here man!
Thank you for that tip, I'll try that before I try anything else, if it doesn't work, I'll let you know, and I'll also let @catsay know, you two seem to know what you're talking about in all fairness!
I knew that properly calibrated monitors were a big deal but I had no idea windows and its associated programs would use different color management profiles depending on what was being used. Theres supposed to be an app for the LG monitors I have at home to calibrate them but honestly I cant tell the difference (except for one that I had used for a year before the other 2 is a little more washed out) and I couldnt get the app to work anyway. The TN panels I use at work drive me nuts because they never look the same. Thankfully color doesnt matter too much in AutoCAD.
EDIT: HOLY SHIT THIS IS DONE ON PRINTERS TOO?
We have been struggling for months to figure out why our plotter changed the way it prints greys in color plots. it used to be black dots but now uses each of the colors which results in a more purple grey output.
Unfortunately I dont know what the hell im looking at though.
See, now that's something I wouldn't know what the hell to do with, basic networking stuff, sure, setting up a server, sure, web dev, f$!k yeah! .... Graphics... Urm, gimme a minute runs to google...
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