Re: neutral gray background
Re: neutral gray background
- Subject: Re: neutral gray background
- From: Darrin Southern <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 17:56:55 +1000
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You asked for some comments on a neutral gray desktop picture. I'm a
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photographer from The Netherlands, and I think Apple should include
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a neutral gray background standard with it's MacOS.
I think if someone needs to set up their background desktop color, then five
minutes is all that's needed to build a small file in PhotoShop.
It's how they set up their PhotoShop for Color Management . . .
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For me neutral means 18% gray (the same as a Kodak Gray Card).
I just opened PhotoShop 6.01 and DigitalColor Meter 2.1 on my G4 Powerbook's
LCD, and read the gray that PhotoShop uses for the background area outside
of any image (r: 75.3 g: 75.3 b: 75.3 as percentage).
I needed to build an RGB image with the following values
r: 191 g: 191 b: 190 (info tells me c: 24 m: 18 y: 18)
or use only 27% black in a CYMK file (I could use the CMY values from the
above) which info gave me (r: 190 g: 192 b: 195)
A RGB pict (screen grab) of the PS area reads r: 192 g: 192 b: 192
(PS info tells me c: 24 m: 17 y: 17) Digital Meter now reads the same area
as (r: 76.1 g: 76.1 b: 76.1 as percentage)
I have generally used a file called 190 Neutral Grey.jpg that PS info reads
r: 190 g: 190 b: 190 (c: 29 m: 22 y: 21)
This is of course with RGB = ColorMatch RGB and CYMK = Euroscale Coated v2.
Change the RBG or CYMK Working Spaces, and then all the values change . . .
Darrin.