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Yes, I’ve noticed the color shift too, particularly as I compare reproductions from ARC to other online galleries. Unfortunately, I find little across-the-board reliabliity on color reproduction on any of the gallery sites, although some are a little better than others. Even books are often off that way. The best course, as always is to try to stand in front of the real thing whenever possible.

ARC can’t be beat, however, for the breadth and depth of their online collections of representational art. They select good examples as well and often showcase fine pieces you won’t find elsewhere.

They also feature more high-resolution reproductions than anyone else, some of the super-high res ones are superb and well worth the trouble to color correct.

As to the topic: (The ARC), do you think they use a special filter for their images to give them that typical golden glow?

I find duplicates of the ARC image offerings elsewhere on the web, and find that by comparison, the ARC versions always have a warmer, more amber tint.

I’ll have to record an action for Photoshop so as to give any downloaded ARC picture a digital wash and brush up before saving it to disk. :)