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Is there too much yellow in this image?

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Whiz:
When I uploaded this image to iStockphoto a month or two ago, I didn't think it was too yellow. But when I was visiting one of my relatives, I checked it out on his computer. And it looked almost too yellow. Perhaps, it was just his monitor. Stockxpert rejected this image because of the yellow tinge, but iStockphoto accepted it. And it has sold a couple of times on iStockphoto, so it can't be that bad(hasn't sold on Stockxpert yet). Thanks for your critiques.

http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup.php?id=3705025

leaf:
yeah it is a tinge yellow.  I assume that background should be white.  Compared to the istock white background it definatly doesn't look white.  I took it into photoshop and made the white white.. and i think it looks better.

If you go over the background and look at the values for R G and B (red green blue) they should all be equal in the white

rjmiz:
If I didn't know better, I would think this was a commercial for "Calibrating your Monitor".
...I often wonder sometimes, if reviewers are required by those that hire them, to have their monitors calibrated properly.

chellyar:

--- Quote from: rjmiz on August 19, 2007, 03:01 ---If I didn't know better, I would think this was a commercial for "Calibrating your Monitor".
...I often wonder sometimes, if reviewers are required by those that hire them, to have their monitors calibrated properly.

--- End quote ---

I've wondered that as well, Apparently not in this case, although I'm not sure IS would reject for subtle colour tints anyway would they?  Some things like that seem to slide with them...

leaf:
yeah i agree, their monitors should be color calibrated, but i don't think any of the agencies require that.

But either way, even if you don't have a calibrated monitor, you can see if the white is white by looking at the numbers when you edit an image yourself in photoshop.

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