Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Color Management of Scanned Album Art

2012-06-30 Thread jdt7385
jdt7385 wrote: I am unable to achieve good color in album art that I have scanned and added to the music using either dbPoweramp or MP3tag. I scan the art from the CD cover and do modest editing in Photoshop. I use either Adobe RGB or Prophoto profiles. I have tried changing the color

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Color Management of Scanned Album Art

2012-06-29 Thread Mnyb
JJZolx wrote: See if you can find some of the same covers that you've scanned on http://www.albumartexchange.com. If there's a significant difference, then you're obviously doing something wrong. If not, I'd chalk it up to the cheap display on the Touch. He say it also looks wrong in

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Color Management of Scanned Album Art

2012-06-29 Thread RussellMrgn
JJZolx wrote: See if you can find some of the same covers that you've scanned on http://www.albumartexchange.com. If there's a significant difference, then you're obviously doing something wrong. If not, I'd chalk it up to the cheap display on the Touch. +1 for Album Art Exchange, it's

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Color Management of Scanned Album Art

2012-06-29 Thread steve-g
jdt7385 wrote: I am unable to achieve good color in album art that I have scanned and added to the music using either dbPoweramp or MP3tag. I scan the art from the CD cover and do modest editing in Photoshop. I use either Adobe RGB or Prophoto profiles. I have tried changing the color

[SlimDevices: Touch] Color Management of Scanned Album Art

2012-06-28 Thread jdt7385
I am unable to achieve good color in album art that I have scanned and added to the music using either dbPoweramp or MP3tag. I scan the art from the CD cover and do modest editing in Photoshop. I use either Adobe RGB or Prophoto profiles. I have tried changing the color profile to sRGB (usually

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Color Management of Scanned Album Art

2012-06-28 Thread Mnyb
I'm an absolute novice in photo editing , but do you produce the *.jpg picture in photoshop to ? I would export a jpeg copy and use that, it's the most compatible way to tag in LMS afaik . Mnyb's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Color Management of Scanned Album Art

2012-06-28 Thread kidstypike
jdt7385 wrote: I am unable to achieve good color in album art that I have scanned and added to the music using either dbPoweramp or MP3tag. I scan the art from the CD cover and do modest editing in Photoshop. I use either Adobe RGB or Prophoto profiles. I have tried changing the color

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Color Management of Scanned Album Art

2012-06-28 Thread JohnSwenson
Aha! Gamma rears it's head again. This all starts with the characteristics of CRT tubes. A CRT tube does not have a linear transfer function, if you double the input voltage the light on the screen does not double. The function of the curve traditionally uses the greek letter gamma, so this

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Color Management of Scanned Album Art

2012-06-28 Thread JJZolx
See if you can find some of the same covers that you've scanned on http://www.albumartexchange.com. If there's a significant difference, then you're obviously doing something wrong. If not, I'd chalk it up to the cheap display on the Touch.