On Wednesday, November 28, 2001, at 02:35 PM, Patrick White wrote: > This makes the images produced on a > Mac appear too light (or is it too dark?) on PCs. > Basically, there are three apropaches to dealing with this: 1) > make it look > goon on a Mac and forget about the PC users, 2) make it look good on > PCs and > forget about the Mac users, 3) make it look slightly crappy on both PCs > and > Macs and, well, live with the crappiness.
Or option 4, when preparing images for the web, convert them to use the sRGB color profile and embed the profile in the image. This does two things: sRGB is basically a crude approximation of your typical PeeCee color display so it will look reasonable when Windows users view it. Mac users using Internet Exploder (or OmniWeb on MacOS X) will will have the image automatically corrected by ColorSync to match their monitor configuration regardless of what gamma they choose. (Well, in IE you have to turn colorsync on in preferences, then the correction is automatic.) > One of these days, some bright person will get around to designing a > popular image encoding format that stores the image data and the gamma > that > that data was encoded with. Already done. You can embed ICC profiles in jpeg and tiff files. -john - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
