On Feb 25, 2005, at 6:59 PM, Anders Hultman wrote:
Embedding of some colour profile may be one answer (since this colour shift appears
different in different web browsers)
Unfortunately it won't help. I only know of two browsers that support colour profiles: Mac Internet Explorer and Safari. I think in IE it was disabled by default, as well. Oh and Mac IE has been discontinued anyway.
Without going into great technical detail, my advice is to convert your file to sRGB before saving. You can embed a profile if you want, but it does slightly increase the filesize while only benefiting a miniscule proportion of viewers.
Last month, I bought some illustrations to a web site I work on. The
background of the site is a very light blue, and I wanted the
illustrations to have the same background colour. But since the artist
used "save for web," the background colour was slightly different on
different computers (Win2000, WinXP, MacOSX, MacOS9). He had so re-save
using the ordinary "save" in order to make the background colour correct.
I've struck this problem as well. As a result I've learned to save without embedding profiles for web graphics (I do embed profiles for photos though, as they don't need to blend into the background). Be warned that if you do save with a profile, the colours will still be changed in Safari.
I don't know what Save For Web does... it might convert the image into sRGB as part of the process, which will alter the colour numbers if the document was edited in some other colour space.
Cheers,
- Dave
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
