For Web: Should Thumbs be Brighter?

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Martin_Coleman
Sep 13, 2006
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I have a bunch of images that are off a DSLR, I cropped an 80px sq from each image to show a tiny portion of the picture to link to on a web page. The thumbnails on my monitor look OK but having reviewed them on a couple of other PCs they appear quite dark. Same for the larger images, of course but the smaller images are more difficult to distinguish and the larger images seem to be more tollerant of variations in display.

Q: Should I brighten tiny images as a rule of thumb?

Many thanks

Martin
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chrisjbirchall
Sep 13, 2006
Q: Should I brighten tiny images as a rule of thumb?

Shouldn’t that read "rule of thumnail? 🙂

Martin: I think the reason you are seeing this is that your monitor is not profiled correctly for Photoshop.

If it is a while since you last did so, run Adobe Gamma (or your third party profiling solution if you are running an LCD screen) then make sure, of course, that the images you are saving for the web have first been converted to sRGB (assuming your working space is set to something wider such as Adobe RGB1998)

Use EDIT>CONVERT TO PROFILE for this.

Once your system is fully colur managed you’ll have no problem preparing images which will reproduce as you intended.

For a fuller understanding of CM have a look at: <http://www.computer-darkroom.com>

Hope this is of some help.

Chris.
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Gustavo Sanchez
Sep 13, 2006
As Chris said, I’d recalibrate the monitor (you might use a calibration device, they are almost cheap now) and I’d work with sRGB as my RGB working space for these kind of jobs.

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