google told me to set the color space for sRGB, which it already was. digging a bit deeper, i found that browsers strip a whole lot of information out of images. if i proof for web in photoshop, i see the same crappy image you are getting. for the most part this doesn’t show dramatically, but my really warm night shots are showing as very green. i don’t like this. the second image i posted i pushed the saturation 100% and almost got it to where it should be. sadly, you guys don’t get to see my big toe in all its warm glory. i’m having breakfast with a friend (hi Dave) who is a photoshop wizard. maybe he can help…

and all the other ones i’ve hosted on my site and put on livejournal and imagecentralamerica.com.

when i finish processing it in photoshop, it looks one way, and after i upload it to my site and look at it online, the colors are completely different. i understand that prints often look different than images on a monitor, but why do images hosted on my website look different than the identical images stored on my hard drive.

10 years after surviving mouth cancer, John Prine is still a consumate performer. After an opening salvo by the Grascals, an allstar bluegrass ensemble who had the audience jumping to their feet like headliners, Prine took the stage for a 2 1/2 hour non-stop anthology of the last 45 years. I last saw him about 5 years before his cancer, and the change in his voice was evident, but took nothing from the experience. Somehow he managed to play every song I was hoping to hear, many I had never heard, and still surprise me with tunes I had loved but forgotten. From the reaction of the audience, the feeling was universal.

He played this song, which will always be sadly topical…

Flag Decal

While digesting Reader’s Digest
In the back of a dirty book store
A plastic flag with gum on the back
Fell out on the floor.
Well,I picked it up and ran outside
And slapped it on my windowshield.
And If I could see ol’ Betsy Ross
I’d tell her how good I feel.

(Chorus:)
But, your flag decal won’t get you
Into Heaven anymore.
They’re already overcrowded
From your dirty little war
Now Jesus don’t like Killin’
No matter what the reasons for.
And your flag decal won’t get you into Heaven anymore.

Well,I went to the Bank this morning
And the cashier said to me
If you join the Christmas Club
We’ll give you ten of them flags for free.
I didn’t mess a round a bit
I took him up on what he said
And stuck them stickers all over my car
And one on my wife’s forehead.

(Chorus:)
But, your flag decal won’t get you
Into Heaven anymore.
They’re already overcrowded
From your dirty little war
Now Jesus don’t like Killin’
No matter what the reasons for.
And your flag decal won’t get you into Heaven anymore.

Well,I got my windshield so filled with flags I couldn’t see
So I ran my car upside a curb and right into a tree
By the time they got a doctor down
I was already dead,
And I’ll never understand
Why the man,
Standing in the Pearly Gates said…

(Chorus:)
But your flag decal won’t get you into Heaven anymore,
We’re already overcrowded from your dirty little war
Now Jesus don’t like killin’
No matter what the reasons for.
And your flag decal won’t get you into Heaven anymore.

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