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Is the color on some of my recent images too saturated or too washed out? (Not including the blue vampire ones).

I'm not asking for a critique of selective colors or my editing, I'm asking what the general color looks like.

I'm having problems editing because there are 3 screens that are used regularly here and they are all different, and I don't know which one is the most normal. Jake has 2 monitors on his computer and one looks normal, and the other looks more saturated. The photos Jake takes are in the RAW format, converted to jpegs and when I upload them to this site after my editing, they look like they've had half their color sucked out, so I amp up the saturation and upload them again so they look normal on his "normal" screen, and they look ugly-saturated on his 2nd screen.


Do these 2 pictures look crazy-saturated?


Is this picture grey looking?
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Hopefully I worded this okay.. I know it sounds a little confusing =/ I just need to get this figured out 'cause I feel like some people are seeing these images and thinking "Wtf is wrong with the color on these" 'cause I don't know what screen to trust.

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!MissMcPott May 31, 2010  Student General Artist
They look vibrant, but not overly saturated.
The last one looks a little dull but not gray.

I hope that helped :S
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~RoseOnyxis May 31, 2010  Hobbyist General Artist
mkay, thank you! that helps =)
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:iconanominom:
Hmm, I guess the one at the bottom does look a bit dull, but the others look good. I thought it was just how you and your other half took them that made them look so vibrant.
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~RoseOnyxis May 25, 2010  Hobbyist General Artist
They don't look overly vibrant though? 'Cause we don't want them to look really saturated, we just want them.. 'normal' lol
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:iconanominom:
I don't think they look overly vibrant no.
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~RoseOnyxis May 25, 2010  Hobbyist General Artist
mkay, thanks for your input! it has helped =D
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:iconmanbot68:
They look pretty decent to me. Best suggestion is to save your money and buy a calibration tool. I use a Spyder2Express and love it. I'd let you borrow mine, but it's a bit of a drive from San Diego and I'm lazy. :lol:
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~insp1ration May 24, 2010  Professional Photographer
Those pics look fine, nothing too crazy or too gray...
Just make sure you use sRGB Color Profile when converting the Raws to JPEG, some people have problems displaying on the web when use other profiles (AdobeRGB for ex.)
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~RoseOnyxis May 25, 2010  Hobbyist General Artist
I think it saves it on that by default (will make sure though next time), but the photos look fine when I convert them, they look good on this monitor, it's just when I upload them on deviantArt that they look grey and I dono why :confused:
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