Orchid

Once in awhile a very pleasing image simply appears. Then with just a small amount of massaging a truly memorable one follows. I am particularly pleased with this one. I hope you like this as well. If you choose to purchase and place in your home or office I'd be honored.

Converting to CMYK, Great Idea or Disaster?

Why do we consider such a move? Well when we shoot a photo & then print it or have it printed, often we find that the colors are not what we wanted. We've heard that professional labs use CMYK color space, so if it's good enough for them why not for us?

You may not realize it but CMYK is not actually a defined 'color space', such as aRGB or sRGB, but a 'profiled color space' that you may or may not have created in your Photoshop Color Settings.

Clearly what happens when we choose to convert to that profile is we are limiting the colors (gamut) available to the image already embedded with a color space. CMYK offers a device profile that would be very helpful only if we know that the device, most often a printer within a printing lab, is one we have a lot of faith in.

Bottom line is if you are sending an image or printing an image in-house, leave it in the color space which has been assigned by the camera body settings, unless the print lab you are sending it to has requested the conversion.

Would love some feedback on this or questions so we can take this to another level if you wish.

Check out with PayPal at Imagekind

As usual I am right on top of things here, only 9 weeks late but as of the 1st of June (I believe) buying art at Imagekind .com is getting even easier. Buying art through PayPal is the safest way with all their security measures. This will move a large number of online shoppers for art of all kinds into the Imagekind showroom. At last count they claim to have 50,000 artists and photographers keeping galleries there. That's the largest collection for sale online that I know of and perhaps the largest anywhere.

And since I am one of the members I'd like to urge you to take a look at not only mine but of the many fine members there. There are an incredible number of really creative and talented members. Some of which have only a few of their very finest works, others who have thousands, while for the most part members have a few galleries. Here's the Home page from which you can browse members or do a search for whatever art or photography you are looking for while feeling really safe about purchasing your next wall art.