Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I, too, work on everything in ProPhoto RGB but for anything that will be posted on the web, I convert to sRGB. It makes a HUGE difference. Someday all websites will probably be color managed, but until they are, it's just safer to go with the much smaller color space of sRGB. Tina On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 11:24 AM, John Nebel <john.nebel at csdco.com> wrote: > This is probably old hat to many or most. > > When I was testing clickable "where's Waldo" pictures of the Boulder Mall, > they looked horrible in Firefox 3.0.x on a PC, but fine on Firefox 3.6 on a > Mac. > > http://photos.csd.net/spring_mall_01.html > > http://photos.csd.net/spring_mall_02.html > > This was after using ProPhoto RGB (the default?) in Lightroom which carried > through to the web images; Adobe 1998 had not been as bad. > > The solution was simple for Firefox, use the URL about:config and turn on > the > optional gfx.color_management_enabled switch on Firefox 3.0.x. The later > Firefox which was running on the Mac had color management enabled by > default. > > http://www.dria.org/wordpress/archives/2008/04/29/633/ > has examples of Firefox vs Photoshop. More on: > http://www.gballard.net/psd/go_live_page_profile/embeddedJPEGprofiles.html > > I can't figure out how to make Explorer behave, so one must use sRGB or be > out of luck there? > > Safari does use color management on both platforms. > > John > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com