Re[2]: testing color browsers for ICC compatibility
Re[2]: testing color browsers for ICC compatibility
- Subject: Re[2]: testing color browsers for ICC compatibility
- From: Peter Karp <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:25:57 +0100
Dear Marco,
> If I convert my image to sRGB and save it as *untagged* JPEG, it appears the
> same when viewed in *all* browsers (with minimal variations of only a few
> decimal points), but only because Safari and IE5 act very much like other
> browsers in the absence of an embedded profile.
> *But* if I save the image as JPEG with an *embedded* sRGB profile, the
> appearance in Safari and IE5 is extremely close to what I see in Photoshop
> when I assign the sRGB profile to that image (though, again, not perfectly
> the same), whereas in Firefox or Netscape the image looks dramatically
> *different*, because the embedded sRGB profile is *not* being honored.
> This proves to me that these last 2 browsers do *not* interpret the colors
> in the image using sRGB, not even by default, because, if that were the case
> -- and whether or not the profile is embedded -- the image would appear as
> it does in Photoshop when sRGB is assigned to it, or as it does in Safari or
> IE5 when the profile is embedded. Instead, it looks very much (with still no
> more than a point or so of difference in R, G, or B values) as it does in
> Photoshop when the *monitor* profile is assigned to it.
Yes, that's because Firefox does not use the monitor profile to render
to images, while PS does. To take out the monior calibration of the PS
chain you'll need to use the Softproof-Option "Monitor-RGB". This
temporaily assigns the monitor profile to the picture.
Best regards
Peter
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