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noelt
12-02-2004, 02:15 PM
I've noticed that a lot of the work i have on my computer (imac G4), done in painter (8), is more washed out looking than when i created them (4 weeks ago) specifically some storyboards and some work posted on the CGTalk gallery. Would anyone know why this happends and what i could do to keep this from happening, i'm very certain that there is fading particularly on the storyboards because the lighting effect that i was so proud of if gone (luckily i know how i did it and it was on a seperate layer).......Jin?
Aerion
12-02-2004, 02:42 PM
Mmh maybe desactivate the Impasto?
noelt
12-02-2004, 03:08 PM
Impasto was not activated, thank you for the suggestion though.
Aerion
12-02-2004, 04:15 PM
Maybe the color managment then?
noelt
12-02-2004, 04:51 PM
These were works that i thought were finished meaning i was happy with the results, so i felt them and moved on to other works, then i happend to notice that the post (to cgtalk) was closer to the sharpness i remembered the piece than the actual original, i did a side by side comparison and sure enought the posted artwork was crisper and sharper, than i checked some other works they were not as sharp as when i left them, i labor over my works so i pretty much remember why i thought they were finished, and the state that i left them in were not the same state they stayed in. I'm finding out that the Painter system is a "pixel based system" not a "drawing program", this makes the program prone to loss of crispness but this is when resizing, i didn't resize, so i'm puzzeled as to why there is degredation.
Jinbrown
12-02-2004, 11:43 PM
noelt,

Images, whether created in a raster program like Painter and Photoshop or a vector program like Illustrator, when saved for the Web will be raster images (pixel based images). Formats that can be displayed on the Web are .JPG, GIF, and PNG, all pixel based.

Depending on what you did with the image before or after it was saved as a pixel based file for the Web, the results could be different from your original.

For instance, if you....

Flattened the image, then sharpened it and saved it for the Web, something I do frequently to compensate for JPG compression and some loss of visual quality.

Saved as a JPG in Painter without sharpening first.

Used Photoshop's File > Save for Web and adjusted for the quality you wanted.

Also, if you upload to a message board's server, they sometimes do some automatic adjustments to the file before it's displayed.

Back to the original work:

If you saved it as a Painter RIFF it should still be intact, just as you created it, unless the file has been corrupted. In that case, there would probably be distinct evidence of corruption and/or the file could not be opened at all.

If you saved it as a Photoshop PSD, most if not all aspects of the file should be intact just as you created it, except for Painter specific things that won't be the same anyway, when saved in PDF format.

Also, your images will display differently on each monitor.
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