Re: There is no place for individual taste in screen appearance.
Re: There is no place for individual taste in screen appearance.
- Subject: Re: There is no place for individual taste in screen appearance.
- From: John Gnaegy <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 17:54:26 -0700
> So if I measure white and it reads slight blue and red in the white my screen is lying?
Displays are notorious liars.
The numbers shown by the eyedropper in Photoshop are just numbers, not photons. That's the key. There's a whole lot of stuff between those numbers and the photons emitted by the display, or the photons reflected off a printed photograph.
I used to have a CRT that would occasionally lose the entire green channel until I gave it a good thwack on the side.
But what if instead it had gradually diminished the output of the green channel, just a little, getting worse over the course of a year. If that were my only display, I probably wouldn't notice it.
If I had created a logo for Sam's Salmon Sanctuary, and in Photoshop made it look medium red (i.e., salmon), the eyedropper would show 255 190 128. Looks like salmon to me. Looks like peach to Sam.
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