Be Excellent To Each Other

Wow, wait til Zardoz sees that post!

Oh. Wait.

Certain graphics file types can store colour profile information you see, some programs ignore it and others will try to utilise it. It's a fucking minefield.

Certainly darker. She's got a colour profile set where they've both run the monitor configuration software. At least it's just her machine though so I'm just going to ignore it - it looks fine for everyone else so I'm not going to worry about it.

Cheers folks!

Hmm.

It's an absolute nightmare isn't it, Z? And it doesn't help that my knowledge of colour spaces is incredibly lacking.

awesome!!

Don't you see how far we've come? I'm so proud of Zardoz, I'm going to buy him a drink of his choice. The day after tomorrow!

I think I owe Myp a drink or a hug...

If he is awake when I get there!!

1 pint of Willoughby Gold Top please. On draught

so much for me posting less, eh?

FUCKING CMYK. FUCK IT!

Bloody designers sending me CMYK files which don't play nicely here in video land. Send RGB or GTFF!

Atrocity Exhibition will be livid when he has to read all this noise.

I'll convert them for you.

Shall we say...

Shush.

Today, whilst buying parts for my gran's shower which I fixed all by myself I popped into Staples and bought some pick n' mix.

But, not just any pick and mix...


PAPERCLIP Pick n' Mix.

See how full this glass is?


Imagine that water is in fact win.



It is not as full of win as Paperclip Pick n' Mix.

Post more Mimi x

The problem is the colours still don't quite translate properly. Designers don't understand this.

They also don't understand what works well in print doesn't work well in video. Red isn't ideal in video land as any compression system that uses 4:2:0 colour compression tends to pixilate reds for example. 4:2:0 is used everywhere from the MPEG on DVD's through to Windows Media and Flash. Red text on white always looks grim for example.

Very much

It's a source of some embarrassment to me that, despite eight years in the IT department of an art college (including supporting stuff like Photoshop, scanners, cameras, printers etc.), colour profiles still confuse me.

Hmm, that might explain why red always appears pixellated on my (obviously ageing now, but quite pricey at the time) CRT tv.

<turns squelch up>

That is a lovely glass. I wonder who made it.

Here you go.

Potential F1 track in NE England

Looks fun.

Mr Everiss digs deeper in his new blog.

Link?

Cached seems to have disappeared on his main site.

Well, some colours cross over perfectly, the problems occur when one is outside of the others gamut. As someone who produces graphics for print and web I always say, 'fuck it, it's close enough'.

Everyones monitor is calibrated differently.

Do you have a 'reference level' monitor for your vid work Chinny? Like Musos have studio monitors for sound?

I quite like that. He makes some good points.

So... the college course I've been attending since November haven't actually got me registered for any of the exams! Great... this could have been a colossal waste of my time and effort.

Mental
http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/26/solidalliances-crazy-earphones-v2-because-ear-fungus-sells/

Was that about the AAA games?

The Katana earphones are the bestest.

Morning all !

And if they really, really want a colour to be accurate, they can use a Pantone.

Are those Pantone 'books' still ridiculously expensive? I worked in a printshop for my Work Experience and when I touched their Pantone thingy, they all freaked out!

Yeah, and they need replacing every 12 months due to sunlight to be perfectly accurate.

http://www.bodoni.co.uk/product_info.ph ... cts_id=161

£90+ for a colour swatch. Crazy!

Compare that to the cost of getting your clients corporate colours printed wrong though.

Yup.

Indeed. We once forgot to set a small layer on a map to Overprint Black, and the whole thing had to be re-printed at a cost of >£3k. That isn't the same as the colours being wrong, but any mistake in large print jobs is incredibly expensive.

What a bunch of dozy cunts.

I should have realised something like this would happen to be honest. The lecturer is one of the biggest moron's I have ever met! She's nice enough and everything, but she hasn't got a clue when it comes to teaching us.

Every week it's like she's making it up as she goes along.

One of her snippets of teaching wisom went like this

"If you don't know what that theory is, google it. It's all over the internet"

Fantastic!

Oh, it was about something else when I read it earlier.

Never mind.

EDIT: It seems he's received a letter asking him to remove all references to someone or other about his Evony thingy from a London firm.

No, because they are fuck off expensive and it makes sod all difference anyway when everyone has their TV brightness set so high it'll fucking x-ray you if you walk past. Files for computer playback are different anyway as you can get away with higher video levels. If I was doing TV stuff perhaps I'd need one.

I have a cheap portable 14" CRT which I have calibrated via the service menus that provides me with a visual check. I'll also check DVD's on a large screen TV and tweak accordingly.

After Lave's avatar sells for 1 million dollars the first apperance of Batman tops it

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8538223.stm

I have to say that I doubt his assertion that more iPhone games are pirated than bought. In fact, I'd be absolutely staggered if that was the case.

Game is shutting 43 stores (although possibly the ones where they have 2 stores within 10 yards of each other)

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/game- ... -in-the-uk

Yeah, read that yesterday. Glad that they're going to provide help for customers during that difficult time. I'll be beside myself.

If you're beside yourself, you can comfort yourself.

That would be an epic hug.

I think in a fair few cases, they could just point at the nearest store.