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Mac browser colour issues

PostPosted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 7:48 pm
by jben_net
Just was checking out my photos on flicker ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/jben_net/ ) and i've noticed some surprising colour differences between apples safari, and mozillas firefox.

Firefox seems much more contrasty, whilst stripping back warm tones

Apples safari is much more accurate.

Anyone else notice this?

PostPosted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 11:12 pm
by pharmer
Your images appear to be PNG instead of jpeg. This may adversely affect the colour profile in a web browser.

The color space of your PNG's is also RGB with an Apple Cinema Display profile

Perhaps Safari has much better support for PNG's

For best display on the web, use JPG's with sRGB colorspace

I see no difference with JPG's between Safari and Firefox on my Mac, but with PNG's there is a marked contrast and brightness difference

PostPosted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 11:38 pm
by big pix
I had colour issue's with smugmug as my images posted lossed a lot of colour......... this was fixed by uploading images with sRBG profile.....

PostPosted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 12:54 pm
by jben_net
ahhhh cool. Good thing I found this out before I uploaded heaps of PNG's

It's more of a convenience thing for me - holding down apple-shift-four takes a screenshot and dumps it to the desktop - that way I don't have to be worried about resizing etc....another problem besides colour accuracy is the PNG files are also quite large......

I'll go back and re-upload sRGB colourspace JPGs when I get a chance.....