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!