Cass said:

This cheers me up, thanks, Radika. I'm endlessly critical. I finally
figured out that I need to DL the raw files and not tweak them even a
bit because I learn little by llittle how best to use Photoshop.

Hi Cass,

You can tweak to your hearts content by doing a few simple things.

For web publishing, you should use the 'color space' in photoshop
called sRGB.

This shrinks the color space of the files and makes for colors that
are able to be viewed similarly on most monitors.

In Photoshop go to:

EditColor Settings

Then under Working spaces go to the RGB dropdown menu and select

sRGB

(It will have a number after it that is the version standard that it
used)

Then click OK.



Additionally you can also standardize your monitor colors with a
utility program called Adobe Gamma. This program is loaded onto your
computer when you loaded photoshop.

In Windows, start Adobe Gamma, located in the Control Panels folder
In Mac OS, from the Apple menu, choose Control Panels Adobe Gamma.

When it launches, load the same color profile as you picked for your
working space above. The default is sRGB. You can follow the simple
instructions to correct the colors, contrast etc of your monitor.

With these simple tools you should be able to make your photos appear
the same to others as they do to you.

Have fun,

Bob Bauer