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Posted 19 September 2008 - 09:49 AM

Tutorial from Paul Cox Photography


One of the most common issues with images here and elsewhere on the web is that the photographer is using the wrong colour space. Regardless of the space you use for editing you should always convert to SRGB when it goes on the web. Unless you are using Safari the browser will not pick up on the colour profile and therefore treat it as if it were SRGB.

To overcome the problem in Photoshop all you have to do is got to Edit, Convert (NOT asign) profile and choose SRGB.

Here's an example. This photo was edited in ProPhotoRGB. It looks nice in PS but this is how is looks if you don't convert it



Not really what I wanted!

Things get a bit better if you convert it to AdobeRGB but not much



However for the closest match to what I intended it really needs to be converted to SRGB



I have an action that converts the colour profile as well as convert to 8 bit and resize ready for the web.

Hope this is useful as it's a question that has been raised quite often over the years.



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Posted 19 September 2008 - 04:32 PM

I am assuming there is meant to be a difference ph34r.gif
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Posted 19 September 2008 - 04:34 PM

If you can't see a difference, then it's not a problem you should worry about!
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Posted 19 September 2008 - 04:41 PM

Try saving the images then loading in your fav photo manipulation software. They have been deliberatly exagerated to show the issues.

Actually, if you look at the red in the corset on this page you should be able to see what he is on about

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Posted 19 September 2008 - 04:50 PM

i thought the last one had more real skin tones - warmer
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Posted 19 September 2008 - 05:06 PM

QUOTE (mikey2cv @ Sep 19 2008, 05:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
If you can't see a difference, then it's not a problem you should worry about!


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Posted 20 September 2008 - 07:05 PM

It's a bit of a hassle but Firefox is also colour-aware, it's just not activated by default.

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