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Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM

11/15/2007 06:23:42 PM · #1

Am I alone, or are there others also starting to rejoice: Safari now gives windows users a browser that recognizes and renders color profiles accurately.

Check it out: Save a photo for web in photoshop, and then open the result file. Voila'! an exact match!
(Which should also help for voting).

The previous Safari beta (3.03) read the profiles accurately, but did not render them with the monitor profile, but the present update (3.04) gets it right.

Let the joy flow....!

& mac users, please spare us the gloating

Gordon

RIM BlackBerry Curve

Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM

11/15/2007 06:28:00 PM · #2

Originally posted by Medoomi:

Am I alone, or are there others also starting to rejoice: Safari now gives windows users a browser that recognizes and renders color profiles accurately.

Except if you save and publish your images in anything but sRGB, around 90%(*) of the viewers won't see them properly.

(*) 80%/ 88% whatever the current IE adoption is

Photologist

Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max

11/15/2007 06:56:15 PM · #3

I guess that brings his "rejoicing" and "joy flowing" to an abrupt halt, don't you think? LOL! ;-)

Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark III

11/15/2007 07:26:10 PM · #4

Originally posted by AperturePriority:

I guess that brings his "rejoicing" and "joy flowing" to an abrupt halt, don't you think? LOL! ;-)

I don't get you... Safari reads and renders profiles accurately, something that I could not get IE or firefox to do...

Yo_Spiff

Olympus 12-100mm f/4.0 M.Zuiko ED IS PRO

11/15/2007 07:26:48 PM · #5

It's promising, and I may try it out at some time, but I am sticking with Mozilla Firefox as my weapon of choice for now.

Apple iPhone 5

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 ED

11/15/2007 07:28:52 PM · #6

I've never had a problem with my JPGs appearing differently in IE or Firefox than they do in Photoshop.

11/15/2007 07:50:43 PM · #7

Originally posted by Gordon:

(*) 80%/ 88% whatever the current IE adoption is

Not quite the issue: the problem I noticed was not over jpgs saved in other profiles than srgb. Safari would not help with that because, like you say, almost all jpegs are saved in the srgb colorspace anyway. The problem was that browsers would not utilise the monitor profile in order to render the image accurately. This made all jpegs appear incorrectly (including srgb jpgs), even though I had hardware-calibrated my monitor.

Those whose monitor's color space is close to srgb will probably notice no benefit, but if your monitior's color space is different, and you have profiled your monitor, the only way to browse and see internet images accurately at present (including srgb color space images) is with Safari.

I'm just glad that there's a browser available to do this.

fotomann_forever

11/15/2007 07:56:56 PM · #8

Originally posted by jhonan:

I've never had a problem with my JPGs appearing differently in IE or Firefox than they do in Photoshop.

Well, if you stick with sRGB color space you won't. Until ALL web browsers can display the other profiles, using Safari would be a mistake for anyone that uses a color managed workflow, in that we might miss that we had published the wrong color space to the web.