Re: Keeping image colors from Photoshop to the web
Re: Keeping image colors from Photoshop to the web
- Subject: Re: Keeping image colors from Photoshop to the web
- From: email@hidden (Bruce Fraser)
- Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 12:25:44 -0700
At 7:54 PM +0100 11/14/01, Paul Schilliger wrote:
Thanks Steve,
After some simulations, I now have a better idea on how the different
platforms display web images.
(The following is not personal)
So! There are a few people out there who are not yet on Mac.
All right, I'll set my system to those settings and convert to sRGB.
The images should then look pretty good on average PCs.
But what about the (maybe) 10% Mac users including myself? Will we have to
watch washy images with clipped cyans and oranges? What a frustration for
photographers, especially since many photographers and image people who know
what a good image should look like are on Mac!
Use Internet Explorer, and check Use ColorSync in the Preferences.
The image will then be correctly translated to your monitor. Explorer
assumes tha untagged images are in sRGB, so if you convert everything
to sRGB, you'll be hitting the approximate middle of the barn door
for PC monitors, and Mac users who care can have teh image displayed
correctly in their browser/
Wouldn't it be time that computer makers find a common standard and stick to
it? Or is it a no go issue like metric and inches.
That would work if vendors made all their monitors identical, and
removed the brightness and contrast knobs. It's unlikely that that
will happen.
Being realistic, I don't think my barking or even most Mac user's will change
the face of the computer world, so is there a way to cut the pear in halves
and have a profile for those JPEGs that would stand mid way between sRGB and
Mac Monitor profile? Has someone found a good compromise?
I don't think that making the image look equally crappy for everyone
is a good compromise!
Bruce
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