Nathan,
Nathan Duran wrote:
But if the profile is removed, why should it matter?
Because you've already performed a destructive conversion with erroneous
color numbers. Your monitor profile should probably never be used as a
source profile for anything other than screenshots since that's the only
time your monitor is actually going to be the source of an image file.
Right! I must confess that I sometimes make screenshots to be used for
the web once saved to JPG with no profile. They seem more accurate on
my system and it saves the conversion to Monitor Profile that I
otherwise use. But I can understand how destructive these ways of doing
can be.
Bottom line is, there is absolutely nothing you can do to ensure that an
image published on the web is going to look exactly the same to everyone who
might view it, profile or no.
That's my point. It doesn't matter so much for most images, but some
have hues such that a slight shift makes them quite different and
unpleasant.
Adobe's "Save For Web" dialogs let you soft
proof for all of the most commonly encountered conditions, and when used
properly, you should not notice any unexpected shifts on a single monitor.
If you are, I'd suggest visiting that easy-to-miss little popup menu in the
upper right hand corner of the image pane and give "Uncompensated Color" a
try.
I had forgotten about it. The soft proofing to the intent recipient
looks as good as the Photoshop file does with just the gamma shift. But
then when I view the web JPG on my Mac through the monitor profile,
it's like the uncompensated colors... yak! I should perhaps see how
they look on other systems before worrying too much.
Thanks!
Paul
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