[Pro] Image colour problem

Hi - I’m back after a long, fairly busy absence!

I’m trying to put together an HTML version of a magazine. I’ve just started, and the colour of the image I dropped into the first page is quite dramatically wrong. (I saw quite dramatically - this is of course from a critical professional’s viewpoint.)

I first used a TIFF image that’s set up as Adobe RGB (1998). The skintones etc. in Freeway look relatively greenish; the warmth is swung towards green/yellow. I coverted the profile to sRGB in Photoshop; that helped a little, but really not much at all. The colour that shows in Photoshop and in the Finder using QuickLook is MUCH better, and exactly as I’ve seen it in my app magazine production in QuarkXPress too.

I have just upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion - is this a known issue? Any suggestions? I was really hoping to get back in the Freeway saddle… but the appearance I’m getting right now just isn’t good enough.

Mac OS X 10.7.2
Freeway Pro 5.6.0

Keith


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Hi Keith,

thought several times “Where the heck is the professor :-)?”

Welcome back.

Ahmm - have you ever had a try to add the image as a bg to an HTML object (just for testings if this a profile issue or a real freeway one?). What happens if you’d do this?

Should we step back to Leo and see if this is making any difference? I’m still on Leo and do not plan to switch, so let me know if there’s something I could do for you.

Cheers

Thomas


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thought several times “Where the heck is the professor :-)?”

Welcome back.

Thanks! I’ve been doing a lot of teaching, launching a magazine, getting into longboarding, helping run awards things, continuing my MacUser work - the usual. :slight_smile:

Ahmm - have you ever had a try to add the image as a bg to an HTML object (just for testings if this a profile issue or a real freeway one?). What happens if you’d do this?

I haven’t, and I will. However, this wasn’t an issue I’ve noticed in the past.

Should we step back to Leo and see if this is making any difference? I’m still on Leo and do not plan to switch, so let me know if there’s something I could do for you.

Not a chance of switching back from Lion to Snow Leopard! :slight_smile: I need to be running Lion to use the latest version of Xcode, and if my other software has problems I need to get to the root of it rather than work around it.

The problem I’m seeing is significant: the skintones go from looking healthy and fit to jaundiced, and the hair colour goes from lush brown to very dark straw. Without a solution I’m afraid I’ll have to find a different route altogether. :frowning:

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Can we assume that you have characterized your display in the System Preferences? Maybe with one of those hockey puck dongles?

Long time, no speak!

Walter

On Dec 14, 2011, at 10:34 AM, Keith Martin wrote:

The problem I’m seeing is significant: the skintones go from looking healthy and fit to jaundiced, and the hair colour goes from lush brown to very dark straw. Without a solution I’m afraid I’ll have to find a different route altogether. :frowning:


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Can we assume that you have characterized your display in the System Preferences? Maybe with one of those hockey puck dongles?

Yes, a monitor profile’s been set up. But even if I switch to other profiles there’s still a difference between how the image shows in Freeway and how it looks elsewhere.

Long time, no speak!

Very. :slight_smile:


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Hi Keith - we missed you!

Can you post a test page with a FW processed image and a pass-through side by side.

David


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