On Dec 20, 2005, at 10:44 AM, graywolf wrote:
I thought Windows shipped with Kodak's color management system, but
I do not find it on my current XP Pro system. It was certainly
there in Win 98, but turned off by default. There is a color
management option in my video driver however and it is set to my
calibrated monitor profile.
However to support my contention that SFW converts to sRGB I saved
an Adobe98 16bit .psd image, both pre-converted to 8bit sRGB and
without any manual conversion, via SFW. Both images are identical.
Now there may be an option otherwise, but I still contend that by
default SFW converts the image to sRGB. And as I said the
assumption of browsers is that web images are s(tandard)RGB and no
profile management is needed in that case. If your system is set to
something else, it, not the browser, should convert the web image
to system color space.
The problem is that there are multiple interpretations of the sRGB
colorspace spec. Without an embedded profile to define what sRGB was
used to render the image properly in the first place, the best you
can do is an approximation and get lucky. You can't adjust your
system color space to be consistent without a known sRGB profile to use.
Adobe Photoshop CS2 allows one to convert the sRGB profile to four
different sRGB profiles. I use the most standard one, which is "sRGB
IEC61966-2.1", and I embed it into every JPEG I post to the web.
Godfrey
