Re: Best Color Management Practices for Web Image Creation
Re: Best Color Management Practices for Web Image Creation
- Subject: Re: Best Color Management Practices for Web Image Creation
- From: Chris Murphy <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 23:32:08 -0400
On Jun 24, 2008, at 7:28 PM, Harmon, Jeff wrote:
I really need to hear my fellow color geeks' opinions on this. I have
clients who feel that evaluating color on their uncalibrated and
unprofiled
monitors make sense because "that's what the customer will see" and
want to
be sure I answer their concerns wisely.
sRGB is pretty much all we've got to base things on, so yes that is
the most rational thing to select and it will likely become even more
rational for at least three reasons as time goes on.
However, the notion that there is a "that" as in "that's what the
customer will see" is wishful thinking. It is a complete myth, and an
increasing myth as computer display technologies diverge from sRGB,
rather than converge on it. At the higher end, very affordable wide
gamut displays, but doesn't affect large numbers of people. However
large numbers of people use laptops and I still have yet to produce a
custom profile for one indicating close proximity to that of sRGB. Not
only are they smaller than sRGB, the primaries aren't even consistent
among the displays being used.
My LED MacBook Pro is radically different from sRGB. If sRGB were the
size of a shopping mall, the blue primary for the laptop would be in
the adjacent parking lot from where it would be if it were sRGB's blue
primary. And that's what's reported by Apple via EDID. Actually
measured with an Eye One Pro and it's a very cyan blue.
So we are in rather desperate need of full display compensation across
the board for all applications, but in particular web browsers.
It's good to see Flash 10 is color managed. It would be great to
coordinate the assuming of all untagged online content to be sRGB with
Safari, Firefox and Flash so there are few and short lived
discrepancies.
Chris Murphy
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