Deke McClelland's Photoshop 5 Tips for Web Designers

You probably know that Photoshop expert Deke McClelland is a fan of our Furbo Filters. (If you didn't know, see the Reviews page.) But Deke is no fan of our Photoshop 5 tips for web designers.
          In fact, the Photoshop guru disagrees with our previous tips on PS5. And was kind enough to share his opinion with us Furbo folk. Here's Deke's assessment, written especially for Furbo Filters. (For more Dekeness, be sure to visit dekemc.com.)  

Deke writes:

Actually, I'm not so sure I agree with Craig's Photoshop 5 tips. For example, there are many reasons why Web designers should keep the Display Using Monitor Compensation check box turned on, particularly if you're working on a Mac. I don't have a lot of time to go into it in depth – I'm busier than I care to admit right now – but here's the skinny.
          You're working on a Mac with a typical 1.8 Gamma. That's a very light screen. You're going along blithely creating your Web graphics. You get the site up, you're showing it off to your client. But your client has a typically dark Gamma 2.2 PC monitor. The graphics come out dark as hell. You can't see the wonderful highlights and color transitions.
          But had you taken proper advantage of Photoshop's RGB Settings, you'd have known how your graphics would look on PC screens in advance. Just open RGB Settings and select sRGB as the RGB working environment. There it is: your graphic on a PC screen.
          Conversely, PC users can preview their graphics on Mac screens as well.
          The Photoshop team designed the RGB Settings options with both prepress and Web designers in mind. In fact, Web designers are better served by the sRGB default setting than prepress folks.
          This is a very tough topic and I think a lot of folks are going to be making recommendations about using Photoshop 5's color functions without sufficient insights and experience. Adobe has a PDF file that explains the settings in detail – including a bit about how they relate to Web folks.

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