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POSTED BY: ThorstenM on 14/08/2008 18:39:03


I've noticed more and more photographers making the mistake of not converting their images to the sRGB colourspace before posting their images here (or elsewhere on the WWW). This results in the image looking completely different when viewed in a non-colour managed environment, which is the case with most browsers. Furthermore, even if being viewed in a colour aware browser such as Firefox or Apple's Safari, the initial image in the gallery will still suffer, because the gallery software isn't colour aware and unless you view the full size image in a colour managed browser, then it's going to look flat and dull.

There's more on this in an article on the Microsoft Professional Photography portal (written by Rob Galbraith).

If you want to show your images off at their best on the WWW, my advice is to use the sRGB colourspace as a default colour space, unless you are well versed in the in's and out's of colour management and know when and when not to use a wider gamut.

The wider your chosen colour space, the worse the problem will be when it comes to viewing it in a non-colour managed environment, so if you post an image in the ProPhoto RGB space it will look worse than one posted in the Adobe RGB space.

- Thorsten.





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POSTED BY: SeanMcC on 14/08/2008 20:16:09


The key here being web images as a final output. Reducing your print output to sRGB can be reducing your print quality as printing technology advances. 

Anything you post on the web should be sRGB as Thorsten mentions. 





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POSTED BY: samwak on 15/08/2008 02:55:04


Thanks for the info Thorsten. Still grappling with this.

My default photoshop colour profile is the working RGB set by spyder express. Should I keep this profile when posting the jpg or should I convert it to sRGB? My problem is the sRGB profile actually shows the colours differently to the spyder profile. Would you advice editing all photos in the sRGB format as oppose to the monitor colour profile?

Sean mention something about degrading physical prints. Should I use adobe RGB for those instead of sRGB? What's the best colour profile to use that will look as good in jpg as well as physical print? Am getting a little confused here.





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POSTED BY: ciaran on 16/08/2008 11:14:22


It's worth noting that FireFox 3.x and Safari are now profile aware browsers so can handle images in any colour space. My guess is most browsers will soon follow.





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POSTED BY: SeanMcC on 24/08/2008 01:33:11


Hi Ciaran,

The issue is that FF3 doesn't hav it on by default and is still considered experimental.

I'm all for the day when browsers are colour aware...





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