You're welcome, happy to help. I color balance and set tonal curves for my photos to work with white mattes, which is one of the reasons I use white surrounds with a thin black/white border trim on my website (http://www.gdgphoto.com). It's most important that you balance your renderings for the kind of surround you want to use.
- A black surrounding matte brightens/raises apparent contrast of the photo. It can make a slightly dull photo look snappier, and conversely makes contrasty photos more difficult to see. - A white surround will darken/reduce the apparent contrast. I feel it gives the most options in adjustment as usually I'm dealing with too much contrast rather than too little. I can almost always raise contrast as needed. - A colored surround is very risky on web pages due to the wide variation in monitor calibrations and gamut. Colored surrounds can compete with B&W and color images. - A light gray (~75%, not 50%) surround is probably the simplest to work with, and on that 20-30% gray text/border lines are easily read and look nice. The inverse is also true: a 30-35% gray surround and 70-80% white text/adornments are also easy to work with and easy on the eyes. I have a "testview" image file that you can use to see what the different surrounds and text settings mentioned above do to two standard photos, one B&W and one color. It is about 300K and is 2000x2000 pixels, which means you can download it and then scroll it around on your screen to see how the effect of the surround and text influence the perception of color and B&W images. http://homepage.mac.com/godders/testview.jpg Godfrey On Sep 22, 2006, at 8:43 AM, Mitch Conant wrote: > Thanks for the input. The red on grey (especially the straight > text) IS > terrible to read. This is the first go around, I was going to add some > CSS to help manage those things. The wife has to work this weekend, I > think I'll play around with that. The comment about r-g colorblind is > well taken. > > Any thoughts on colors to go with the middle grey? In addition to the > colors, I'll play around with the borders on the Viewer page. I kinda > like the organization that they give to the Index page. > > Hey, thanks for your ideas! -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
