{"id":564,"date":"2024-10-20T19:37:18","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T19:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/?p=564"},"modified":"2024-10-20T19:43:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T19:43:46","slug":"why-you-should-not-use-black-backgrounds-for-editing-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/why-you-should-not-use-black-backgrounds-for-editing-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Why you should NOT 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<\/em> the same shade of gray all the way across. The left end is NOT<\/em><\/strong> 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<\/strong>\u00a0the same shade<\/em> of gray” (RGB 110,110, 110).\u00a0<\/p>\n

This is built-in our human perception. You can look at the A\/B image above all day, and B will always look lighter to you than A.<\/p>\n

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Upshot? Your editing environment really does<\/em> have an effict on the work you produce. Don’t use dark backgrounds for editing photos.<\/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":[13,2,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-printing","category-general-info","category-photo","category-mac-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564","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=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":565,"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions\/565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}