Re: 10.8.3 Finder Colour Management
Re: 10.8.3 Finder Colour Management
- Subject: Re: 10.8.3 Finder Colour Management
- From: Ben Goren <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:19:21 -0700
On Mar 25, 2013, at 2:15 PM, John Gnaegy <email@hidden> wrote:
> Really the take away here should be not to rely on the behavior of untagged data, there is no assumption that can be made that will be correct all the time.
While strictly true, as a practical matter this is one of those technically correct but practically useless answers.
In this day and age, and for quite some time now, untagged data should be assumed to be sRGB. That's the official specification for the Web, and the actual behavior of most (all?) modern browsers. And sRGB has long been the standard space that consumer monitors are adjusted for at the factory, and the default working space of nearly all cameras practically since the dawn of the digital photography revolution. And the most common working space of image editing applications.
Further, the worst that happens if you assume that an untagged image is sRGB, is that you see the same basic thing that you'd see if you display it in your Web browser. On the other hand, if you assume that an untagged image is some other random profile, especially your display profile...well, if that profile is close to sRGB, you won't hurt yourself too badly, but, if not, you get the sorts of complaints that have been dominating this list since the start of this thread.
If you have any sway at all with anybody at Apple who can do something about this, please, please, please convince them to just globally change everything everywhere to assume sRGB for untagged data. It's high past time Apple did this...and, really, The Powers That Be at Apple should know better by now.
*Especially* considering how popular Apple products are amongst creative professionals, most of whom would tell you that it's obvious that untagged images should be assumed to be sRGB.
And, while you're at it, in addition to my pony, I'd really like iOS to respect embedded ICC profiles, too....
Cheers,
b&
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