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I think if you start requiring a specific 'colour space' quite a lot of people, even those who contribute regularly (like myself) will not bother as we have no idea what you're talking about.

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When I compare images, I don't use two different sets of eyeballs and I don't use two different monitors.

That isn't the point... the point is you could have two different people view the image on your monitor and they could easily disagree over which was (subjectively) better.
Similarly you could view your images on one monitor and descide image A is better but if you then were looking on someone else's PC image A could look worse... fine for you (if you are going to use one moitor for the rest of your life) but what if your monitor is differently set up to the vast majority out there and you are Voting Yes for an image that may look worse on most people's systems.

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Sorry, but hues are important to me, as is color saturation, contrast and sharpness.

We have a few contrbutors out there that are over sharpening images to improve text readability but consequently making the graphics look "digitized" and very grainy.

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I think if you start requiring a specific 'colour space' quite a lot of people, even those who contribute regularly (like myself) will not bother as we have no idea what you're talking about.

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When I compare images, I don't use two different sets of eyeballs and I don't use two different monitors.

That isn't the point... the point is you could have two different people view the image on your monitor and they could easily disagree over which was (subjectively) better.
Similarly you could view your images on one monitor and descide image A is better but if you then were looking on someone else's PC image A could look worse... fine for you (if you are going to use one moitor for the rest of your life) but what if your monitor is differently set up to the vast majority out there and you are Voting Yes for an image that may look worse on most people's systems.

Sorry but this makes no sense.  I am looking at both images at the same time on the same screen and comparing it to the original artwork.  I do not go to someone else's monitor to look at one while I look at the other on my monitor.

Two people looking at the same image on two different monitors can definitely see something entirely different, but that's not how voting is done, so what's your point?

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... because people all see the pictures differently.  No two pair of eyeballs is the same, just like every monitor is different, etc.

I've never understood this argument.

When I compare images, I don't use two different sets of eyeballs and I don't use two different monitors.

I pull up the contribution which shows the old image side by side with the new image on the same screen.

Then I pull out the DVD in question, and hold the cover art up next to each of the two images on the screen.  I use the same set of eyeballs to perform this compartive function for each image on the screen.

I then decide which of the two images on the screen more closely matches the actual cover art, based on what my one set of eyeballs sees on my one monitor.

So how many of you out there use multiple monitors and multiple sets of eyeballs to judge cover images?

Maybe we should start a poll on this?

You're missing the point.  I have never submitted a bad scan based on how you describe it above, but I damn sure have some rejected with all kinds of comments about what's wrong w 'em.  The point is that what looks good on MY SYSTEM to MY EYES may be completely screwed up on YOUR system to your eyes.  Because of that, on any given scan, you may get all kinds of NO votes that are all over the place as to reason, or maybe all the same reason - there is no way to predict it.  Multiple monitors has nothing to do with it.

That's why using anything other than the standard Windows graphic interface (or color palette if you wish) is pointless.  Using something else (that might very well be more accurate) won't matter because 99% of the people looking at it are using the Windows which will display it using the Windows standard palette.

Just a note here on eyeballs:  Everyone's eyes are different.  Such things as nearsightedness, farsightedness, cataracts, glaucoma, and other ailments affect how we see.  If I look at a picture and say it's correct color and sharp, my dad would look at the same picture and to him it would be less sharp and the colors would be off because he has some slight cataract problems in one eye.  There are all kinds of problems that affect our ability to see color accurately, so how anyone can expect to see a scan the same way as the next guy in line is beyond me.  No matter how hard you try, voting on scans can never be based on anything but subjective responses.

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Just a note here on eyeballs:  Everyone's eyes are different.  Such things as nearsightedness, farsightedness, cataracts, glaucoma, and other ailments affect how we see.  If I look at a picture and say it's correct color and sharp, my dad would look at the same picture and to him it would be less sharp and the colors would be off because he has some slight cataract problems in one eye.  There are all kinds of problems that affect our ability to see color accurately, so how anyone can expect to see a scan the same way as the next guy in line is beyond me.  No matter how hard you try, voting on scans can never be based on anything but subjective responses.

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What I don't understand is the necessity of having the image match the actual DVD cover exactly.  All I care about is a fairly close representation of the DVD cover in so far as color is concerned.  I buy DVDs to watch the program, and Profiler to tell me what DVDs I own/want.  I'm not planning to use Profiler to publish something requiring the image match the DVD colors exactly.

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95% of people are using Windows, so this is really a moot point.

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What I don't understand is the necessity of having the image match the actual DVD cover exactly.  All I care about is a fairly close representation of the DVD cover in so far as color is concerned.  I buy DVDs to watch the program, and Profiler to tell me what DVDs I own/want.  I'm not planning to use Profiler to publish something requiring the image match the DVD colors exactly.