Comments on: Digital-Image Color Spaces, Page 7: Recommendations and Links

By: Agro Rachmatullah

Agro Rachmatullah — Sat, 05 May 2012 05:50:06 +0000

Wow, thanks for the thorough explanation!

I’m practicing photography and edit my images in Photoshop. I save RAW with my camera, and unknowingly uses AdobeRGB in Photoshop’s Camera Raw. Thus AdobeRGB is used all the way up to the saved JPEGs. The result is that:

1) Images I upload to Google+, viewed Using Chrome 18 are unsaturated
2) Images I upload to Google+, viewed using Firefox 11 are correct
3) Images I upload to Facebook appear correct

It seems that Chrome is still color stupid so my AdobeRGB images aren’t interpreted properly.

The interesting thing is that when I upload to Facebook, Facebook will compress the image and in the process convert the image to sRGB so that it appears with the correct color in any browser.

I’ll be sure to save to sRGB when saving to the web from now on, well at least until the state of affair gets better. Once again thanks!

By: DonW

DonW — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 19:19:13 +0000

•JEITA’s EXIF Standard (Ver 2.1)
•JEITA’s DCF Standard (Ver 1.0)

These 2 “LINKS” are broken

Thanks, I’ve fixed them. —Jeffrey

By: William Barrow

William Barrow — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:41:28 +0000

This has cleared up all my questions about this mysterious colour gamut/profile/mgt thing. Now I will not proceed willy-nilly as before. Thanks a lot for the time an effort you have put into educating us “colour-stupid” folks.

Hailing from Port of Spain, Trinidad.

By: Elliot

Elliot — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:00:11 +0000

Many thanks!
I have had the problem before, and hit it again – creating an image for my website and finding it doesn’t match the CSS colours. I use Safari at home and Firefox/IE at work. Oddly, this time Safari caused the problem and it took your article to teach me that it was because Safari was properly interpreting the image.
You have saved me a lot of time, energy and frustration. My website now works, having removed the profile!
Thanks for taking the time to write such an excellent article.

By: Nelson Guzman

Nelson Guzman — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:43:47 +0000

Super article, Jeffrey, a BIG BIG thank you. For the first time I understand the reasons behind my color problems.

Can you please comment on the topic of monitor calibration. I am taking your suggested steps to ensure I have the best possible color for photos that I post to the web: I have my monitor calibrated, use Lightroom, export to sRGB. You have pointed out, however, that Internet Explorer is Color Stupid, and also does not honor the monitor’s calibration profile. Does this mean that even if my friends calibrate their monitors, and I have been encouraging them to do so, they will not benefit from it–at least not for viewing photos on the web?

Nelson Guzman

By: Fx3

Fx3 — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:55:47 +0000

http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2007/08/color-management-support-added-to-firefox-3/

Firefox 3.0 support color management, why does these pages not mention it? Safari isn’t the only color management aware browser.

By: robert jakab

robert jakab — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:11:28 +0000

i am into photography since ages but this is the one article it made me understand the whole color profile “hell” the first time

By: Cosmin

Cosmin — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 11:05:36 +0000

Thank you for your effort in writing this article. It was an enlightening post for me. I finally understood why, when exporting to JPEG from Lightroom or Photoshop and watching the photo with another software, I was loosing the greys I loved in my original photo.
I now have a clear image of what color management means.

By: Joe M

Joe M — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 05:24:08 +0000

Wow. As a scientist, I think I have at least some appreciation of the amount of work that went into this article, and I want to thank you for putting in the effort to educate me (and others, of course). This article really connects a lot of dots for me, and I’ve actually worked with color. I’ve bookmarked this blog and will probably be reading much of what you write. Thanks again.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:35:17 +0000

What can I say – this has been one of the best photography / design articles I’ve ever read. It really should be picked up by one of the bigger print mags. The clarity of information in your article is top level. You have helped myself and I’m sure a lot of other people understand some very complicated crap put out by different companies with proprietary interests. At least in understanding, we can control the limitations and use them to our advantage.