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Washed out colour from RAW with Apple Aperture - Help!

I’m back from holiday, having spent nearly a week in lovely Paris and am in the process of getting some shots up onto Flickr but am hitting a few problems. Chiefly, the colours in the exported JPEGs (from RAW) are appearing washed out when viewing in Camino, but not Safari.

I spent a day or two earlier this week in Aperture making tweaks to the photos, picking the shots to keep, rejecting the ones that were quite plainly rubbish.

I’m a relative newcomer to Aperture, and to shooting in RAW. The additional flexibility I get in adjusting white balance (I frequently forget to adjust it on my camera) and other similar fixes after the fact are invaluable to me as a pretty average photographer.

I also love using Flickr. I’m a member of the Nikon D50 Group (the DSLR I use – it’s fantastic), and love to just nosey around when I get down time, it’s a great way of getting inspiration for things to do, see, and take photos of.

I’m now trying to get to grips with my workflow in taking photos all the way to Flickr and PhotoBox (my printer of choice) and the colours in Camino look very washed out:

They were exported using the sRGB ColourSync profile, and I’ve also read posts saying that Aperture even implicitly converted every JPEG to sRGB. So, as far as my limited understanding tells me, I’m doing all I need to have the correct colours in place for images to display bright, vivid, delectable colour. Is it just Camino doing something stupid? Or are the images actually rubbish.

So, trusted lazyweb, do people have suggestions for what to do? Any other Aperture/Flickr addicts with tips?

All this malarkey just days after recommending it to another TW-er – Sam Newman. D’oh.

Anyway, many thanks in advance!

Another Day, Another Server

Well I’m not so sure that Lighty, and FCGI running Rails and PHP isn’t such a great mix after all. After approximately a day all goes a little crazy and everything becomes largely unresponsive. So I’m taking drastic measures, and trying yet another web server.

This time, I’m giving Litespeed a go. It’s a commercial piece of software, but, they do offer a standard edition that’s free. So far it seems to run pretty good, importantly it seems to do a good job of serving PHP (which always seems to have been on the problem on my server anyway – I had some PHP apps for stats tracking and webmail).

After a while I’d have `defunct` php processes kicking around, and fairly soon after my Rails processes would go crazy. Then I was in a world of pain, which most certainly did not rock!

I’ll keep an eye on things. So far it seems pretty stable, and was very easy to setup (following their own guide). I just need to get a few more things configured and I’m all ported.

I’d definitely be tempted to switch back to Lighty, but I think I’ll have to wait until 1.5.0 and `mod_proxy_core`. Also, have any people on the lazyweb had problems with Mongrel 0.13? I tried Lighty -> Pound -> Mongrel and that also seemed to die as often as Lighty -> Mongrel?