On Nov 29, 2005, at 8:50 AM, Adam Maas wrote:
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
Some of the problem is certainly there. PLEASE please please,
always convert JPEG versions to sRGB and embed the sRGB profile
you are using in the process. Without that, there's no way to
predict what the image will look like on someone else's system
and screen.
What I see in your photos comes down to excellent composition but
poor quality rendering. The foregrounds appear muddy with poorly
differentiated tonal values and apparent lack of sharpness.
Adjusting the black point and revising the curves as I did helps
bring them up to a better point, within the limits of a crude
editing system and the capabilities of a low-rez JPEG original.
Godfrey
Even embedding sRGB won't necessarily do much. Safari is the only
browser to respect profiles.
Both Safari and Microsoft Internet Explorer specifically honor
profiles on Mac OS X, the latter when you set the option in
Preferences. Others rely upon the system-wide profiling calibration
provided by the QuickTime rendering of graphics file formats. Safari
is the only browser I use to view photographs so I always get the
benefit of embedded profiles.
However, in a series of tests with another friend running Windows, we
found that embedding a profile helped consistency with several
different browsers on the Windows XP platform and also provided
improved consistency with nine different browsers on Mac OS X.
Whether they actually honor the profile properly or not, the results
were at least less variable.
Godfrey
