[filmscanners] RE: Thumbnails looking flat

["Paul D. DeRocco" <pderocco@ix.netcom.com>]

The typical web browser will assume your monitor profile, not sRGB. I
suppose it's possible that your monitor has a smaller gamut than sRGB, which
would cause the gamut to be compressed a little. The easy way to tell is to
Assign your monitor profile to the sRGB image in Photoshop, and see if that
makes it duller.

There's no good reason to use GIF for thumbnails.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@ix.netcom.com

> From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
>
> I'm in the process of building image galleries for my soon-to-come up web
> site and stumbled in some issue related to image presentation online.
> For each image I create thumbnails at 180xXX or XXx180 and the actual
> picture linked to it at resolution close to 800x600.
> I use Save for Web option of PS7.
> I paid attention that the thumbnails (and perhaps the images
> linked to them)
> look quite flat in terms of colors and contrast on the screen despite of
> their good looking originally
> (TIFF or JEPG in PS7).
> The originals are scanned in Adobe RGB 98 space and their copies intended
> for the web are converted to sRGB just prior to Save for Web operation.
> Both thumbnails and the actual images are saved as JPEGs.
> Any ideas for the reasons for that dullness ?

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