re: Colorsync and the web
re: Colorsync and the web
- Subject: re: Colorsync and the web
- From: bruce fraser <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 15:59:12 -0700
At 3:47 PM -0600 7/2/02, Chris Murphy wrote:
Actually the ultimate browser for color management is OmniWeb which is OS
X only. Not only does it use embedded ICC profiles like IE 4/5, but even
if profiles are not embedded in images, but my understanding is it will
assume sRGB for all untagged images. Therefore everything gets color
managed to the current display profile. The drawback is there is a
performance penalty for having to convert every single pixel in every
image.
If you're running a Mac IIfx on a T1 line, it's possible that it will
take the Mac longer to convert the pixels than it will take the
server to feed them to you, but on reasonably current hardware,
ColorSync typically does matrix conversions faster than the display
architecture can pump pixels to the screen.
If you still have Photoshop 5.5, try seeing if you can detect any
performance difference whatsoever with "Display Using Monitor
Compensation" checked and unchecked. I'll bet dollars to doughnuts
you can't.
Mac Exploder 4 and up also assumes untagged images are sRGB, and
manages them to your display profile if you turn on ColorSync, in
either OS 9 or OS X. (Which is not to slight OmniWeb in any way, but
the CM functionality already exists in Exploder...)
Bruce
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