What is happening to color in browsers?
What is happening to color in browsers?
- Subject: What is happening to color in browsers?
- From: Marco Ugolini <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 17:37:11 -0800
Dear friends and colleagues,
I am currently banging my head against a rather stubborn problem.
I am preparing a large number of images for a renowned company. I am
color-correcting them, so that these images will eventually look good, among
other places, on a web site.
Now, the thing that is driving me nuts is that, no matter how I convert
these images (to sRGB, AppleRGB, GenericRGB, WhateverRGB...), they never
look in the browser the way each of them appears when opened in Photoshop.
There is only one exception: Safari. If I convert, then save the images with
an embedded profile (any embedded profile), Safari displays them very much
like they appear in Photoshop. But all other major browsers (Explorer,
Firefox, Netscape) all show these images incorrectly no matter whether they
have embedded profiles or not (though the images end up appearing the same
across these browsers).
And what is even worse is that *none* of these images looks like the same as
in Photoshop, no matter what profile I converted them to in Photoshop from
my original.
So, the question is: what the heck is the color space used by these
browsers? It's not sRGB; it's not anything like GenericRGB or AppleRGB
either. What profile describes the way these browsers interpret color in any
given image? How do I stop chasing my tail trying to find out a way to make
RGB files look the same in Photoshop and in these browsers?
If anyone has any insights, I would be very grateful.
Thank you.
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Marco Ugolini
Mill Valley, CA
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