Re: Choosing a profile for an icon
Re: Choosing a profile for an icon
- Subject: Re: Choosing a profile for an icon
- From: Karsten Krüger <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 12:21:32 +0100
Am 04.02.2006 um 21:28 schrieb Adam Nohejl:
2006/02/04 v 19:16, Marco Ugolini:
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).
Yes, you're right. But as this is an application icon and I don't
know what displays/monitors the users have. I'd like to choose the
most "universal" profile and i don't think that the either
designer's LCD or my iBook's display are good choices for that.
The generalized question therefore is: What is an average Mac
display/monitor color profile? Is it closer to sRGB or to iBook's
LCD for example?
Adam,
The typical Mac display uses Gamma 1.8 while sRGB is somewhat similar
to a Gamma of 2.2.
At
/System/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/Generic RGB Profile.icc
you will find the default Mac OS X display profile.
Hope that helps,
Karsten
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