In this video (26 minutes long!) I look at the problems of image and processing “perception” that can be caused by using WHITE as your background colour in Lightroom, Photoshop or any other image processing software.
Viewing your image against a white background will invariably make you PERCEIVE it to be lower in contrast and somewhat ‘less bright’ and saturated in colour than it really is.
This in turn will lead you to add contrast and perhaps brightness – when in reality you do not need to.
I might drone on a bit in this video but please check out the perceived differences in all the images I show as you’ll be surprised!
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Dear Andrew,
First of all I found your site yesterday and it proves a trove of wonderful information. The main characteristic being the substance and straightforwardness of it. First class.
I use white background as to come closer to what the photo needs in terms of processing towards printed output. Idea being paper is generally less contrasty and saturable (!) than any screen.
Could it be than white is better suited to printing while dark grey to screening?
Thank you and I go on absorbing your great info.