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Originally Posted by Gidders
OK I understand profiles and colour spaces and I work in Adobe RGB in Photoshop, but before posting any images on the net I always convert to sRGB and so should everyone else. Why? Because if not, the vast majority of viewers will not be using browsers that can read icc profiles and will not therefore see your image as you intend. This <<<link>>> shows the proportions of users with which types of browser - & I bet less than 1% of Firefox users know about Duncan's tip - so ~96% of internet users will not be able to read icc profiles. |
I suspect that most people with visual awareness and certainly photographers will make up very large sections of the small percentages having better computers and decent screens.
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Originally Posted by Gidders
Images posted in Adobe RGB colour space will tend to look flat and lacking contrast when viewed without an icc profile. The attached printer test files have had the profiles stripped out of them so you guys using browsers that can read profiles can see how your beautiful profiled images will appear to the majority of the world. sRGB is the web 'standard' and if you use the Photoshop "save for web" option, the default settings convert your images to this - I had to turn the defaults off so you can see the difference  . If however you are using the usual "save" command you should remember to convert before saving to make sure your images look how you intend. |
Although your attachments behave as you predict (on mac anyway, will wire up the mouldering PC and try that later), my own actual photos, saved with 'adobe RGB' do not. Firefox on mac is the only place where they look flat. On PC/XP my pics look normal & identical in Safari & Firefox.
There is also the fact that on one's own computer, if you do not have all programmes set to use the same colour space, the same image will appear different according to in which prog a particular stage of editing is taking place. This is nothing to do with printing, where it is the printer colour profile that needs to be matched to printer and, ideally image. Fortunately NX 'soft proof' function works well for that.