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    Steven Kersting
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    I'm curious, what BG color do you use when editing and why?
    I use the neutral grey (PS) because, well, it's "neutral". I find the editing treatment can turn out quite differently if a different BG color is used (as well as lighting levels of room/monitor).

    However, it might make more sense to use a white BG, at least for images intended for general web presentation...

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    I tend to bounce around between the three to see how the pic looks in each. It can make a difference at times, at least to my eyes.

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    Eric has a great point as the BG color will influence how yiou perceive image details such as an image with lots of shadow will look OK if processed with a black BG, but go to white BG and look at it and the shadows can looked blocked up.

    I would determine what the final presentation medium would be and try to accommodate that.

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    Does it matter for web presentation as we do not know if it will be viewed on a calibrated monitor or how the viewer has it set-up? We have total control for print output but zero control as to how it may look on joe averages computer.

    I use grey myself and low lighting (mainly because this is what we were taught to use in the studio). Not a clue if it makes much difference! lol

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    Default Well at least more and more browsers are color managed

    Quote Originally Posted by Stuart Hill View Post
    Does it matter for web presentation as we do not know if it will be viewed on a calibrated monitor or how the viewer has it set-up? We have total control for print output but zero control as to how it may look on joe averages computer.

    I use grey myself and low lighting (mainly because this is what we were taught to use in the studio). Not a clue if it makes much difference! lol

    regards.
    Stu.
    Using a color managed browser and attaching profiles does make a potential difference audience willing!

    More and more browsers are color managed. Safari, IE 9 and recent releases of firefox are capable of being color managed, but you have to remember to embed the color profiles into the exported jpegs.

    A lot of people on the web seem not to attach profiles and just export in sRGB as the lowest common denominator but a lot of monitors whist capable of displaying sRGB do not use that color space natively so don't map a photos color to the monitors native color space because there was no attached profile.

    One also has to pose the question is sRGB the best color space to use today, or is that the lowest common denominator of yesteryear CRT era? I don't have an answer to that but as technology moves on a color space of analogue CRT TVs must surely be superseded at some point.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Robert Amoruso View Post
    Eric has a great point as the BG color will influence how yiou perceive image details such as an image with lots of shadow will look OK if processed with a black BG, but go to white BG and look at it and the shadows can looked blocked up.

    I would determine what the final presentation medium would be and try to accommodate that.
    I agree. But if the final use is unknown or varied (print/flicker/hosted/etc) wouldn't that make gray the "safest"?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stuart Hill View Post
    Does it matter for web presentation as we do not know if it will be viewed on a calibrated monitor or how the viewer has it set-up? We have total control for print output but zero control as to how it may look on joe averages computer.

    I use grey myself and low lighting (mainly because this is what we were taught to use in the studio). Not a clue if it makes much difference! lol

    regards.
    Stu.
    I wouldn't say we have "zero control", but certainly not full control.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Andrew Bunney View Post
    Using a color managed browser and attaching profiles does make a potential difference audience willing!

    More and more browsers are color managed. Safari, IE 9 and recent releases of firefox are capable of being color managed, but you have to remember to embed the color profiles into the exported jpegs.

    A lot of people on the web seem not to attach profiles and just export in sRGB as the lowest common denominator but a lot of monitors whist capable of displaying sRGB do not use that color space natively so don't map a photos color to the monitors native color space because there was no attached profile.
    Because I'm a Mac user (17" MBP, 27" iMac), this is very evident/problematic for me.

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