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Photoshop web colors

Fri, 2009-06-05 19:55 -- John Hawks

This is off the usual topics, but I mentioned once how poorly colors were coming out when I save sketchbook pieces as JPG. They look great in Photoshop, but saving as JPG mysteriously dulls all the colors. For the Termineander, I overcorrected the colors and got acceptable results.

But I wanted to point to a post on Viget Inspire, The Mysterious “Save For Web” Color Shift. As with all things art, many people have noticed the problem ahead of me. The simplest solution is to set draft view to "Monitor RGB" (the lowest common denominator for the web) and forget the wonderful saturated colors that Photoshop managed to automatically get out of your scans. Sigh.

Neandertals

For years, I've worked on their bones. Now I'm working on their genes. Read more about the science studying these ancient people.

Denisova

From a finger bone of an ancient human came the record of a completely unexpected population. My lab is working on the science of the Denisova genome.

Acceleration

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Malapa

Just outside Johannesburg, the Malapa site is producing some of the most exciting finds in human evolution. This site is the headquarters of the Malapa Soft Tissue Project.