Perception and subjectivity is the grand theme of this week. Here’s a little exercise. We were all assigned to produce a neutral, zone five gray square, with hue-sat and color balance adjustments. Not gray by the numbers, but what felt and looked gray to us. Then we backed up and looked at all the monitors.
No gray square matched anyone else’s. We all have our particular, internal version of that ephemeral and fugitive substance, neutral gray.
I'm so glad to hear this, because I was surprised and disappointed the first time I used hardware to profile my monitor. What it called gray looked greenish-yellow to me. What I thought was gray turned out to be bluish (I did the experiment you described after profiling my monitor and my B value was higher than my R and G).
Posted by: Tommy Williams | January 27, 2007 at 08:24 PM
Tommy,
Don't make the mistake of disbelieving your monitor profile however. You need the lookup table to translate the image values to output values. If you have a taste for a cooler look, then make a correction layer that generates that.
Posted by: Doug Plummer | January 28, 2007 at 11:04 AM