Color Help

[Nater]

I'm currently limited to a TN panel optimized to look pretty, not accurate so I have no idea how these actually look, can you tell me how they look on a 10bit/100% srgb monitor? This is for the front of my business cards.

 

 

 

 

[2FA]

Looks fine to me, the green isn't that close to actual emerald though. I think the green is a little too bright if emerald is the color you were going for.

[Nater]

2 minutes ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

Looks fine to me, the green isn't that close to actual emerald though. I think the green is a little too bright if emerald is the color you were going for.

On my screen it seems too dark.

 

tell me is it the same color as this?

 

 

Because the jpg looks completely different than the png

 

 

[2FA]

3 minutes ago, Nater said:

 

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The second one is much brighter, PNG and JPG have different levels of compression with PNG being the one with higher quality. This actually much closer to what emerald should look like https://www.google.com/search?espv=2&biw=2560&bih=1344&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=emerald+shade&oq=emerald+shade&gs_l=img.3..0j0i30j0i8i30l2j0i24l2.136248.137275.0.137461.6.6.0.0.0.0.112.324.3j1.4.0....0...1c.1.64.img..2.4.324.g0wXLD8x7M0#imgrc=aVUPnl5h8sbLbM%3A

[Nater]

2 minutes ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

The second one is much brighter, PNG and JPG have different levels of compression with PNG being the one with higher quality. This actually much closer to what emerald should look like https://www.google.com/search?espv=2&biw=2560&bih=1344&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=emerald+shade&oq=emerald+shade&gs_l=img.3..0j0i30j0i8i30l2j0i24l2.136248.137275.0.137461.6.6.0.0.0.0.112.324.3j1.4.0....0...1c.1.64.img..2.4.324.g0wXLD8x7M0#imgrc=aVUPnl5h8sbLbM%3A

Yeah I'm definitely going to need a new monitor.

 

Hopefully https://www.amazon.com/LG-Electronics-34UM95C-34-0-Inch-LED-Lit/dp/B00ZL3D1E8/ will drop to $499 on prime day and I can get a decent monitor, considering graphics is one of the services I offer.

[2FA]

3 minutes ago, Nater said:

Yeah I'm definitely going to need a new monitor.

 

Hopefully https://www.amazon.com/LG-Electronics-34UM95C-34-0-Inch-LED-Lit/dp/B00ZL3D1E8/ will drop to $499 on prime day and I can get a decent monitor, considering graphics is one of the services I offer.

That would be really nice to have. Just stay away from curved monitors when it comes to graphic work as those will change the image slightly from what it actually is but is mostly due to human perception.

[Nater]

2 minutes ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

That would be really nice to have. Just stay away from curved monitors when it comes to graphic work as those will change the image slightly from what it actually is but is mostly due to human perception.

Yeah I heard that, but it's not like I can afford one anyways.

 

Might just go to a local place and get 10 business cards printed up and then once I get the monitor spend a penny and get a bunch of HQ ones.

[2FA]

1 minute ago, Nater said:

Yeah I heard that, but it's not like I can afford one anyways.

Same

[Evanair]

What's the final product? Print or Screen? You'll maybe want to adjust for CMYK from RGB if that's the case (if you're looking for an exact color).

[Evanair]

Also, buying a color Calibration tool like a Spyder would be useful both now and later if you're planning on doing any graphics or editing. WYSIWYG doesn't work so well when it comes to non-digital work.

[Nater]

34 minutes ago, Evanair said:

Also, buying a color Calibration tool like a Spyder would be useful both now and later if you're planning on doing any graphics or editing. WYSIWYG doesn't work so well when it comes to non-digital work.

I was looking into those but they're so expensive.

[.spider.]

9 hours ago, Nater said:

Because the jpg looks completely different than the png

 

Should not be which color space are you working in? Are you embedding the color space to your image? Are you converting all your images to sRGB while export? 

Why is it important to use a 10bit monitor?

[ALwin]

11 hours ago, Nater said:

I'm currently limited to a TN panel optimized to look pretty, not accurate so I have no idea how these actually look, can you tell me how they look on a 10bit/100% srgb monitor? This is for the front of my business cards.

 

 

 

 

I can check on my monitors but I have no idea what you really want.  If you want a shade of Green called 'Emerald', which one do you want?

 

Wikipedia has the color coordinates for one type of Emerald.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shades_of_green#Emerald

 

Pantone has four, if you use the color finder tool.

https://www.pantone.com/color-finder?q=Emerald

 

Additionally in your image, the green on the design is not uniform throughout.

 

This design is for a business card right?  Choose your color coordinates carefully and embed the color profile in your document.  In Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign you can create a PDF proof file to send to the printing company.

[Evanair]

I cannot stress this enough for your cards. Switch to CMYK. Color matching in RGB is pointless if your end product color profile isn't RGB.

[.spider.]

2 hours ago, Evanair said:

I cannot stress this enough for your cards. Switch to CMYK. Color matching in RGB is pointless if your end product color profile isn't RGB.

Color matching is pointless if you do not do softproofing with the printers ICC profile.

RGB is not a big problem 

[Nater]

Went to switch the color to a more 'emerald' but seems like too much work, not to mention a google search of emerald shows almost the exact color I'm using in half of the images.