Saturday, May 1, 2010

may 1




today was a pretty good day. it's nice to relax and take some time off before gearing up for my next final...

oh, and i learned today that color profiles actually make a difference (who knew??). i started working in prophoto RGB because someone 'highly recommended' that i do so to preserve color info, but i couldn't figure out why my flickr photos were looking like shit, all desaturated and stuff. well apparently flickr has a bad habit of stripping color profile info, and if your photo is in a larger profile than sRGB (say, adobe or prophoto) it is going to look like ass. so, lesson learned, if you're gonna be working with prophoto, make sure you save in sRGB before uploading to the web...