^ Actually, you can get photoshop for pretty cheap on eBay!
Thanks for the idea, I'll have to check it out.
Sorry Atlop... It was Photoshop CS... & I actually got those colors by UNDER exsposing the original...
Ahhh, I see. Thank you, I'll try that some time with what I have.
Anyway I now realize I might have overreacted (not to say your photos don't look good and unique, they very much do) but what I forgot was that I'm looking these photos now through new monitor, or actually very old one that I started using again when my laptop died, and the colors are different indeed. First I thought I could not use this at all but after I found some setups of the graphics card it was actually pretty good.
But the point is it's not completely the same. I have viewed my photos in some other computers and found out that warm/red colors that looked good on my monitor look pale and washed in most other monitors. I have tried then to adjust this monitor (gamma correction etc) accordingly but not quite there yet.
Anyway what I started thinking was that since many member here often have a clearly recognizable tint in their photos, is it really only that they have a taste for certain style or is it that their monitor makes them over-correct some things? Just a thought...
As for the PMC rules, what we have are different software that handle contrast and brightness adjustments very differently. Then there is the option to adjust gamma, only none of the software that I have (Gimp, Paint.net, Picasa, MS office picture manager) has gamma mentioned anywhere...? I'm assuming it's the same thing as adjusting the middle value in output level, though I have very seldom used it. And then there is the gamma correction in the monitor of the person who makes the photo, and in the monitor of the person who views the photo, both may be different and neither may be close to 'neutral' correction (if there is such a thing?). No wonder we sometimes ask each other how the h*** was that possible...
Ok these were my random thoughts of the evening. I better go have some tea now...
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