[Julie Deane]

Thanks, Linda and Marvin -

I shot the last set of photos in full sunlight, which made the colors bright, but some of the colors were too bright and needed adjusting to match the way I view this painting indoors in cool light. When I tried to shoot it indoors in the same light, the colors that are there did not show up properly.

I have white balancing, and an added feature that allows several exposures to be taken at once with different white balance settings. It works like bracketing.

I shoot in RAW format. When I put it in Photoshop, a quirk in my camera's conversion program doesn't allow me to transfer directly - it freezes up my computer. So I go to another supplied program, turn the RAW file into a TIFF file and save it onto my computer. Then I can open it up in Photoshop and do my adjustments. I do use RGB.

My monitor has never been calibrated - maybe that is the culprit? And how do you go about calibrating it?

I also just noticed that my camera's file menu has a place where I can adjust the color saturation and contrast, so I may play with these two to see if I can match better without the need for Photoshop as much.

Do you think I could run tests here? I am thinking of shooting some standard color samples if I can find them, plus my gray card and gray scale.