Re: In-browser monitor profiling?
Re: In-browser monitor profiling?
- Subject: Re: In-browser monitor profiling?
- From: Rick Gordon <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 01:58:25 -0800
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Neil, I totally agree. Actually my NEC with SpectraView II has the same
kind of toggle between different calibrated spaces, so I keep my monitor
calibrated to a wide-gamut setting suitable for print production and
photo work, and also to "sRGB" (kinda-sorta).
But since the OS seems to have no facility to map monitor calibration
options to particular applications, and I'm often multitasking, I most
often leave it at wide-gamut for convenience.
I would love it if there were a way to map the monitor profile choice to
particular applications, and/or to different Mission Control spaces. But
if anyone has ever implemented something like that, I'm unaware of it.
Rick Gordon
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On 12/7/16, 12:54 AM Neil Barstow said:
Hi Rick, Jeff,
To me this is one of the big disadvantages with wide gamut displays.
Non colour managed applications.
And those displays are becoming rather common
It's amazing that users in the field just get used to the
oversaturated web - but, then, have you seen how some set their TV
saturation.
I have found this browser colourmanagement test illuminating:
http://cameratico.com/tools/web-browser-color-management-test/
According to that test, my version of Chrome 54.0.2840.98 (64-bit) on
Mac OSX 10.10.5 is supporting v2 profiles but not v4.
With Eizo coloredge screens there is a solution, as the calibration
process can be set to restrict the display gamut to sRGB; which would
be ideal for non colour managed web.
Of course, for image editing, you may like to switch back to a full
gamut calibration. That's a different subject though.
I mention the Eizo solution because there may be a solution for your
system that allows restriction of the calibrated gamut.
In practice:
Some who work in, or advise in, the area of putting up material online
feel that if the general public may be viewing on high gamut screens
without any sophisticated colour management add-ons, then people who
put stuff up online just have to be prepared to see that happen to
their carefully crafted images and graphics.
Each image may be viewed in 2 distinct ways, high gamut and "sRGB
like" gamut.
Then there's user settings of course. Out of the box many screens are
WAY bright and "blue".
Perhaps there is some solace in the fact that the users of these
various screens have become accustomed to how images etc. are shown.
It's not ideal though, for sure.
It's a tough one to crack. In a world with 2 distinct types of screen
and many users who don't know what they've got, web browsers
definitely need colour management (which is ON by default), placed
images need to either be tagged, or in the absence of tags [to save
space] presumed to be sRGB.
just my 2p worth
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RICK GORDON
EMERALD VALLEY GRAPHICS AND CONSULTING
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WWW: http://www.shelterpub.com
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