If only........

Well after following advice (so blame Matt!) I scrubbed my monitor out, set up the colour profiles and re-processed the images. I think the advantage of using the "correct" colour profiles comes out best in the images of the drake.

Before




After




The rest (if you can still be bothered!) are at http://www.ammonyte.plus.com/galleries/showcase/index.html

Thanks again to Matt, Don and John for enlightening me.

I only use raw-adobe rgb in studio, or for formal wedding shots. I can justify the extra steps and time there. but for all other jobs I use jpeg and srgb to simplify workflow. any psds are done in the original colorspace as there no gain in taking a shot done in srgb to adobe rgb, but there is a loss when you go the other way around, and saved as psds (or tiffs, if sending out for printing). All web, dvd, proofs are jpeg/srgb unless there's a reason to do anything else.

Tim,

That's much better. Colourful things, ducks. Tasty, too.

G

That looks way much more vivid. Really a good improvement.

PS: Nice photo BTW

Thanks guys, the flavour of this particular duck I cannot vouch for!