Exporting photos for web use - colors?

[Olli Vainio]

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Here's an illustration of the photo in LR, Firefox and Safari. I've exported the photo with sRGB as I'm going to use it on web. Safari seems to show it correctly - as seen in LR. However, with Firefox(or any other browser on Mac and Windows), colors seem washout/desaturated. Is there any way to make the photo on LR look as it's going for look for 95% of the viewers? It's really hard to adjust photo when you don't see how it's going too look at the end.

[Fraxinus]

I'm curious about this because I regularly export pictures from Lightroom as sRGB for use on the web and they look pretty much identical to Lightroom in all browsers on my Mac - Colour Comparison example here - and on a PC too using Opera, Firefox, IE6/7.

I understood that only Safari was colour managed, but if you use sRGB then all browsers should render the image the same. Is there any chance that the image you used as an example may not have been sRGB as you intended?

http://kapsi.fi/~odo/Picture%201.png (photo's colors have been oversaturated to illustrate the point)

Here's an illustration of the photo in LR, Firefox and Safari. I've exported the photo with sRGB as I'm going to use it on web. Safari seems to show it correctly - as seen in LR. However, with Firefox(or any other browser on Mac and Windows), colors seem washout/desaturated. Is there any way to make the photo on LR look as it's going for look for 95% of the viewers? It's really hard to adjust photo when you don't see how it's going too look at the end.
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[larsrc]

Is there any way to make the photo on LR look as it's going for look for 95% of the viewers?
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First get 94% of viewers to get better monitors and hardware calibrate them:) Then make sure you have your color profile in there -- Safari might just be assuming sRGB when nothing is found.

-Lars

[madmanchan]

I understood that only Safari was colour managed, but if you use sRGB then all browsers should render the image the same.
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Not quite. There's more to getting accurate color reproduction even if the assumption that the image is sRGB is correct. You still have to apply the monitor profile to get accurate colors. Color-managed apps like Photoshop, Lightroom, and Safari make proper use of the monitor profile. Color-unmanaged apps (other browsers, Windows XP, etc.) don't.