I want to color correct my digital photos, but I have a color vision deficiency. Up to now, I've been correcting the levels manually, but relying on the auto-color features in Picasa or Photoshop for colors, but often this doesn't do a good job and the colors look off, even to me. I can manually correct the levels and adjust the colors so they look right to me, but that doesn't guarantee they will look right to others. Is there any way to color correct numerically (for instance, using the eyedropper tool on someone's face to to see if the RGB value of skin falls within a skin-tone range) Otherwise, is there a service that I can send my digital photos to where they can color correct them perfectly and send them back? I'm interested in the digital files, not in getting prints.
posted by anonymous on Jun 9, 2009 - 7 answers

I need more Illustrator/Photoshop color help! We got Adobe Creative Suite 4 for our office. There are some color settings that I'd like to set as defaults but can't figure out how to do so. [more inside]
posted by ChloeMills on Jun 4, 2009 - 5 answers

Help me understand what's going on here, please. Sometimes, when I'm working in Photoshop (CS3 10.0.1), I get color weirdness, along the lines of the following examples. [more inside]
posted by bricoleur on May 28, 2009 - 4 answers

How do I make my colors print the same in Illustrator and Photoshop? [more inside]
posted by ChloeMills on Jan 14, 2009 - 7 answers

What is the best approach to color management? I only just realised that how I see my photos in iPhoto, Photoshop, and Safari isn't how the majority of people on the net are seeing them? What is the best setup for consistent color management that still looks good? [more inside]
posted by teem on Jul 11, 2008 - 7 answers

How can I prepare a bitmap image to print in black & white plus one spot color? [more inside]
posted by pantufla on Apr 29, 2008 - 6 answers

Working with duotones and spot channels in Photoshop question. [more inside]
posted by papercake on Apr 4, 2008 - 8 answers

Help me figure out my color profile woes, please! [more inside]
posted by sprocket87 on Jan 9, 2008 - 6 answers

I'm scanning old family photos and the scanner appears to be adding colored pixels to black and white photos. What do I do now? [more inside]
posted by Jupiter Jones on Dec 17, 2007 - 16 answers

I'm creating a very simple web page and inserting images into the cells of a table. However, I can still see faint lines around the borders of the images. What am I doing wrong? [more inside]
posted by gfrobe on Oct 15, 2007 - 11 answers

Why am I getting different colours when saving images in Photoshop? [more inside]
posted by Mikey-San on May 13, 2007 - 9 answers

I'm coloring a comic and I want it to look like 1970s or 80s Marvel comics, or Archie digests. [more inside]
posted by apetpsychic on Oct 17, 2006 - 14 answers

Photoshop is distorting the color and contrast in all of my images. Examples linked within. Help! [more inside]
posted by brain_drain on Aug 6, 2006 - 16 answers

Tomorrow I'm giving a lecture about color -- specifically, I'm talking to designers about how to create color palettes. The talk is more concerned with aesthetics (i.e. what color combinations are striking) than tools (i.e. how to pick colors in Photoshop). But there will be some tools talk. Since there are many designers here, I'd love to know all your color-related tips. As the Xmas season is coming, I am sharing one of my own tips inside... [more inside]
posted by grumblebee on Nov 15, 2005 - 15 answers

Weird color space issues in OS X PhotoshopCS: Why does PhotoshopCS change spaces from RGB/8 to RGB/8/CMYK? What does "RGB/8#" or "RGB/8*" mean? [more inside]
posted by loquacious on Sep 27, 2005 - 4 answers

Color spaces, color profiles, Macs, PhotoShop, iPhoto... IT'S DRIVING ME CRAZY!! [more inside]
posted by TiredStarling on Jul 31, 2005 - 7 answers

I need some BAD photographs (bad lighting conditions, etc.). [more inside]
posted by grumblebee on Jun 8, 2005 - 14 answers