Re: Web Site Horror--Feedback requested

What, you mean those guys lied to me? I can't google any more; googling
now crashes my browser, as does trying to access sites, but it's nice to
know that such a thing exists, contrary to the Mac service guys who told
me they don't. (Why would they say that?) Anyway, thanks a whole lot.
Heck, $55 is nothing, if it works.
Katharine

Summers, Jeff wrote:
>
> I am not sure if this will help, but there is a usb to scsi adapter
> cable by Adaptec, Adaptec Model 1856600 USB to SCSI Adapter.
> Unfortunately, it is about $55, but is good on PC or MAC systems.  You
> could try looking at Newegg or Zipzoomfly websites, or just Google in
> general the phrase usb to scsi.
>
> Sincerely,
> Jeff
>
> Dr.  Jeffrey Summers
> Office of Environmental Systems
> Office of Fossil Energy
> U.S. Dept of Energy
> 301-903-4412
> jeff.summers@hq.doe.gov
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Katharine Thayer [mailto:kthayer@pacifier.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 4:24 AM
> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Subject: Re: Web Site Horror--Feedback requested
>
> Thanks for suggestions, Jeffrey and all....
>
> Everything has always been set to sRGB, but it's interesting that you
> and a couple of other people remark that on your monitor, the bowl has
> a
> red cast, or even looks reddish brown. There shouldn't be any red in
> the
> bowl at all; it's a deep navy blue that shades into black on the right
>
> side. Someone suggested that I should have chosen the option to
> "optimize for the web" which made me laugh, since my most recent
> version
> of Photoshop (5.0) still assumes that the only place an image would go
>
> from Photoshop would be into print publication;  it offers no option
> to
> optimize for the web. (After spending myself into the poorhouse
> keeping
> up with the cutting edge of digital imagining from 1990 to 1998, I
> stopped buying software and hardware at that point, and have bought
> nothing but a new flatbed scanner since then).
>
> I was thinking that if I ever get time, I'll re-adjust all those
> images
> when I get a new system with new Photoshop, properly calibrated, but
> then I remembered my other horror: I don't have any way to transfer
> the
> original scans to a new system. My old system is SCSI and everything
> now
> is USB; the computer guys tell me there's no such thing as an adapter
> that will translate one to the other. If anyone has a good idea for
> how
> to not only save my files but be able to transfer them to a new
> system,
> I'd be most appreciative. My brother who was the systems guy for a
> corporation says he can't think of a way, unless I had a place to FTP
> everything to and then download it from there to the new system, which
>
> would take days but at least would be a solution. But at any rate I
> don't have such a place. I've held onto this old thing for so long,
> for
> another reason because I've got Hypercard stacks with thousands of
> cards
> that I started in the early 1990s to store my research for writing.
> When
> I moved to this computer in 1998, it still ran the Hypercard I had
> from
> before, but the Mac guys tell me that the newer systems don't, and
> besides, how would I transfer the information anyway.
>
> Up a creek without a paddle?
> Katharine 
>
> Jeffrey D. Mathias wrote:
> >
> > Katharine,
> >
> > A good page of yours to also look at is the "color and pigments".
> > Although from your description "...should have luminous blushing
> > apricots in a dark blue bowl. The apricots should look clean and
> clear
> > and luminous, and there should be some detail even in the darkest
> part
> > of the bowl.", the appricots seems OK as you describe, but the bowl
> may
> > not have all the blue you indicate (even though more on left side). 
> The
> > blue seems to have a lot of red.  Anyway, it is very difficult to
> > compare without an original and even then correct viewing light must
>
> > then be used.
> >
> > Two suggestions:
> > 1) What I have found to work well is to keep everything (scanner,
> > photoshop, monitor, etc.) set to sRGB.  It seems as though the
> industry
> > uses this as a standard and is the default given to most equipment.
> > When one goes to your web page, most likely their color space will
> be
> > set to sRGB.  One of the problems I have had in the past (with
> photos
> > from various people for a newsletter) is that if one uses Photoshop
> > which has a different color space default, Photoshop changes the
> color
> > and saves it that way.
> >
> > 2) For critical color presentation, a test image should be included
> on
> > your site so that the viewer can adjust their monitor to view the
> proper
> > color (space, temperature, gamma, density range, etc.)  Probably one
> of
> > the most overlooked monitor adjustments is the color temperature.
> >
> > --
> > Jeffrey D. Mathias
> > http://home.att.net/~jeffrey.d.mathias/
Received on Wed Sep 21 09:57:58 2005