Where will it end..?.  
http://www.dpreview.com/news/1011/10112402kuwaitdslrban.asp

Patrick.

Sorry, corrected

Hi,

I'm intrigued and puzzled by a color profile problem.
I work in photoshop CS4, color space adobe sRGB IEC1966- 2.1. Color profile embedded when saving.
Skin tones are perfect in photoshop, i do not push saturation etc, try to keep is natural as possible.
However after upload the images on-line appear to be pinkish... very unnatural skin tones. Below an example (screen captures with on the left how it appears online, on the right how it shows in photoshop)


Is there a setting i need to change to match the colors.?..

Patrick H.

ps : i'm working on a HP LP2475 w s-ips screen calibrated on a weekly basis with the panthone Huey pro.

A glimpse behind the scene, how the "Graffiti urban series" were created.



http://www.dreamstime.com/graffiti-urban-rcollection12584-resi14714

Thanks to Anil for the movie creation.

Patrick H.

Came across this while surfing for info in safety belts :

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-8PBx7isoM&amp;feature=player_embedded" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-8PBx7isoM&amp;feature=player_embedded</a>

Patrick.

A full month on Fotolia with the new prices, time to do some math.

Let�s start with the division of the different  credits and how much they are represented  :

Februari            March            Result      

1 credit :    18 %         19 %                    + 1 %
2 credit :     8 %         14 %                    + 6 %
3 credit :   17 %         13 % (4 credit now)      -  4 %
4 credit :   11%         12 % (5 credit now)      + 1 %
5 credit :   11 %           6  % (6 credit now)      -  5 %
Subscription :   35 %      36 %                    + 1 %

-   6 credit sales show a big decrease (former 5 credits);
-   5 credit sales stayed almost the same (former 4 credit);
-   4 credit sales also shows a clear drop (former 3 credit);
-   2 credit sales shows a significant increase;
-   1 credit sales, almost the same, slight increase;
-   Subscription sales a slight increase.

Return per image in :

-   February   0.915 $
-   March   0.825 $

There is a clear inclination towards smaller sizes and cheaper prices. As a result, march revenue is  about 10 % lower than February, despite march having about 11 % more image sales. I could deduct without  excess that there is a drop of 21 %.  So far I�m not seeing the promised increase.  Selling more images should result in a clear increase, not what I�m seeing now.

Patrick H.

Sorry for the rickety layout, made it in office 2007 and just copied over here...

Hi,

Today i started the day at  minus 1.85 dollar... obvious, again a refund.
Checked the other credit section, made a note of the day and hour and went to my portfolio to search for that XL sale ,,,,,refund.
Strangely enough i can't find it, even more strange, five day prior to and five day after that supposed sales i didn't have a single XL sale...

Patrick H.

Hi,

I was wondering, before you calibrated your screen for the first time with the spyder colorpro... what color temperature did you set your screen on... 6500 or 9300 ...?..

A friend swears with 9300, i prefer 6500....

Patrick H.

Hi,

I recently installed an extra 2 gig ram module on the motherboard.  I'm running Windows Vista home premium.
The funny thing however is that when i go into configuration screen, system it seems vista only sees 3 gig or ram while i have two modules of 2 gig = 4 gig.

Is  there a way i can force vista to see the 4 gig.?.

Patrick H.

Hi,

I was going over my spreadsheets from past and this year yesterday evening.
I couldn't go past the fact that lateley the value of our pictures devaluated by about 22 % compared to past year (around same period) mainly due to the increasingly dropping value of the dollar.

The fact that subscription sales on some sites where you can not opt out are increasing which also leads to lesser income per picture doesn't really contribute to the growth and our motivation.

With a portfolio growht with about 150 % over the year and just about an increase of income around 45 % i was wondering how much more we need to produce/upload to stay in the game, to keep it profitable for our time...?..

Any other thoughts.?..

Patrick.