Re: Monitor RGB and Flash
Re: Monitor RGB and Flash
- Subject: Re: Monitor RGB and Flash
- From: G Mike Adams <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 13:49:19 -0500
Kerry,
You're a little off base here. . "Monitor RGB" isn't any particular profile, outdated or otherwise. All the monitor RGB setting in Photoshop does is use whatever profile you have assigned to your monitor as your RGB working space. For instance, if you set your monitor profile to sRGB, then you'd be working in sRGb while set to the "monitor RGB" setting. Since only you have your monitor, however, using this setting isn't exactly conducive to creating images that are going to look good on anyone else's monitor. Also, of course, any color editing conclusions you come to in that setting apply only to people using your monitor...in other words, no one but you.
If you're interested, here's more info on the subject, as well as the command to make Flash display all images as SRGB in the final .swf file: http://correctcolor.org/cccommentary/?p=114
Regards,
Mike Adams
Correct Color
On Oct 5, 2010, at 2:20 PM, Kerry Mansfield wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This may be naive on my part regarding the color issues when viewing an sRGB
> embedded image in Safari. . .
> Quick question, are you viewing an HTML or Flash site?
> I ask because Flash actually doesn't use the sRGB profile to render images.
> Due to my last position working at an online video game that uses real
> photographs and NOT CGI, I did a lot of research to figure out why the color
> look of our images wasn't staying consistent from Lightroom to web. Well, it
> turns out that the current version of Flash actually uses an old school
> (read: way out of date) MONITOR RGB profile. If you take a Safari window
> with the image displayed in a flash-powered site and place it next to the
> image in Photoshop with a soft-proof of Monitor RGB, you will see that the
> images match. In general Monitor RGB will add about 10 points of yellow and
> about 15 points of saturation to an image that is embedded with an sRGB
> profile. Essentially, Flash makes images look pretty ugly.
> When prepping images for my personal flash-powered website I soft-proof with
> the Monitor RGB profile and adjust my jpegs before uploading to account for
> the shift.
> Again, this may be irrelevant to the highly knowledgable members of this
> group but I thought it couldn't hurt to add to the discussion.
> Thank you,
> Kerry
>
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