{"id":167,"date":"2021-05-08T19:52:24","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T19:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.valleau.art\/blog\/?p=167"},"modified":"2022-03-18T20:21:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T20:21:47","slug":"dont-use-black-backgrounds-for-editing-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/dont-use-black-backgrounds-for-editing-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t use black backgrounds for editing photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

While dark environments, such as Apple’s Mojave, or the default settings for Photoshop & Pixelmator Pro, may look fashionable, they are terrible for editing photos.<\/p>\n

Why? Because they screw up your ability to see tones properly. Using a dark background will trick your mind into producing a print that has clogged up shadows, and is overall too dark.<\/p>\n

Don’t believe me? Check out the image below.<\/p>\n

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See that grey band in the middle? It is exactly the same shade of gray all the way across. The left end is NOT lighter than then right end.<\/p>\n

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Take a look at squares A & B, below.<\/p>\n

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A & B are exactly\u00a0the same shade of gray. (RGB 110, 110, 110).<\/p>\n

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It’s the way human perception is wired, and there’s nothing you can do about seeing those gray tones as different.<\/p>\n

If you literally cannot see<\/em> the tones correctly, you cannot edit your photos correctly, and you’ll never \u00a0understand why your prints look too dark.<\/p>\n

Set your editing tool to as light an environment as you can, and change the background to white, to keep your brain from messing with you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While dark environments, such as Apple’s Mojave, or the default settings for Photoshop & Pixelmator Pro, may look fashionable, they are terrible for editing photos. Why? Because they screw up your ability to see tones properly. Using a dark background will trick your mind into producing a print that has clogged up shadows, and is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472,"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}