The power of color adjustments

[brewster]

A few days after I released Cock Hero Boss FIGHT, I decided to mess around with cyberlink colordirector, and was blown away by the results:

The "before" is on the left half, the "after" is on the right.

Wished I would have used it prior to release.

[optiknerv]

Dare I say it the before looks better. It is more natural lighting. The after looks too 'shiny' and slightly orangey.

[book_guy]

Oh I'm ok with the right side, because there are tits and a hot chick's face, whereas all you get on the left side is a hint of pink and a few knees. :)

No, seriously, I personally prefer the "manufactured shiny" look on the right, I think. Might not in heavy doses, but there's a certain hotness to images that are "candy clean." So to speak.

[elvisomar]

If your monitor is not calibrated properly, none of it will make a whit of difference. And no matter what you do, you can't ensure that all of your potential audience have their monitors calibrated.

As a professional designer who regularly does photo image correction for print, I keep my monitor very well calibrated for color. But no matter what I do, I cannot stop a client from saying, "All your images look too dark, or too light." When it's feasible, I ask them to check their calibration. When it is not feasible, I suggest that they trust my experience. (And for the record, ease of color calibration and the ability for a monitor to hold calibration, is another area where Apple has considerable superiority over a PC-based machine.)

Brewster, from the screen shot you supplied, I think the original image was a little too blue and dim. I think your corrections here for color were good, but you may have overdone it on the contrast.

To you, Book Guy, while I definitely prefer to see a model's face, the feature I admire most about this model is her abdomen. It looks delicious. To each their own, I suppose.

[alchemi183]

Brewster, if you felt like it you could always re-release it. I'd download it again. If not, at least you know about that feature for any future releases. :)

[book_guy]

To you, Book Guy, while I definitely prefer to see a model's face, the feature I admire most about this model is her abdomen. It looks delicious.

Like I said, "candy clean" ... and delicious candy too.