Re: Choosing a profile for an icon
Re: Choosing a profile for an icon
- Subject: Re: Choosing a profile for an icon
- From: Marco Ugolini <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 10:16:28 -0800
In a message dated 2/4/06 7:50 AM, Adam Nohejl wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've had an icon made and it has a color profile assigned. I've
> figured out that the Mac OS X .icns files can't cary any color
> profile information, so my question is:
>
> Which profile and method (rendering intent) should I use to match the
> icon before converting to .icns? Using sRGB seemed like a good idea
> at first, but it makes the colors look washed out on my iBook's LCD
> and I guess that it doesn't correspond with an average Mac display.
>
> Thanks for any ideas,
For a dead-on match to what you see in Photoshop using the embedded profile
on your calibrated and profiled monitor, you should convert your icon image
to the color space of your monitor display's profile, then save the image
*without* embedding the profile.
Of course this assumes: (a) that each of your displays is calibrated and
profiled, and (b) that you will convert the icon image to the profile of
each of your monitors separately, for use in each computer (yes, not very
practical).
At least on the Macintosh side, the monitor profile is what determines
appearance in all environments that are not actively color-managed (the
Finder, etc).
sRGB is second-best as a choice, but not quite as effective.
Regards.
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Marco Ugolini
Mill Valley, CA
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