Phil’s B.B.Q. a local San Diego favorite restaurant, has officially gone World Wide. Read More…

encompus is pleased to launch Soul Shine’s new website soulshine.com.

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PPI stands for Pixels Per Inch. DPI stands for Dots Per Inch. I see lots of articles and user interfaces and hear lots of people talk about DPI and PPI in the wrong manner. 300 PPI means the digital file has 300 pixels per inch, not 300 Dots Per Inch. Pixels are not Dots and Dots are not pixels. Pixels are square, Dots are usually roundish. Why is it we call pixels dots and dots pixels?

There will come a day when most of our OS, applications, devices, and browser experiences are color managed. Right now, we are close in some respects but still pretty far in other respects.

If you read my prior post on browser compatibility, you found out that with respect to images, they should be embedded with sRGB, but that only helps if your viewing the images on a browser that supports embedded profiles (otherwise the display profile is used as source). Let’s say we were talking about non image elements, like gray backgrounds or orange headers. How should those elements be color managed, especially if your designer is using Photoshop for conceptual layout?

If the web designer uses sRGB as the “Working Space” as he/she is supposed to do, what happens at the level of the Web Producer. The Web Producer does the splicing of the PS file and makes PNG or GIF files out of the individual elements or he codes directly the hex values into CSS. However, one can not embed a color profile into a PNG or GIF. This is where CSS3 comes in.

CSS3 will allow the Web Producer to set the color profile for the entire coded page, in this case sRGB. That way when the designer and the producer compare the published beta site and the Photoshop preview the two match (of course right now only in Safari).It will be great day when all modern browsers use embedded profiles and CSS3 becomes a common standard. If your looking for a fantastic tutorial on the subject check out gballard.net.

In response to a post by Jason Santa Maria: Wow - so many different opinions on this topic. Reading some of the above responses I realize more and more just how important this topic is to the design community. Our agency is completely color managed and I teach this stuff for a living for X-Rite, and HP. Here is my take on all of it. Before we begin - color is and will always be subjected to the individual observer and your viewing conditions - geeky I know, but it had to be said. Read More…