Hi all,<div><br></div><div>I have a couple of questions that may be a bit silly due to my beginner level knowledge of color management.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm an amateur/hobby photographer and I've been using ubuntu for a while (currently using 10.04). For a while now I've realized the importance of having a color managed workflow, but have put off getting the hardware as I thought getting everything installed, set up and configured would be tough in linux. I recently purchased a Pantone Huey monitor calibration device and you could imagine my pleasant surprise when I found how extremely easy everything was to use with gnome color manager. In no time, with almost zero effort I had everything up and running. Kudos to the developer(s) - this is excellent software!</div>
<div><br></div><div>So, to test how color management works in a browser, I found this web site: <a href="http://www.gballard.net/psd/go_live_page_profile/embeddedJPEGprofiles.html">http://www.gballard.net/psd/go_live_page_profile/embeddedJPEGprofiles.html</a>. Using google chrome (a non color managed browser) this page is a mess of incorrectly rendered photo's - I expected this. Using Firefox, things are a lot better - imbedded color profiles are now honored and the photos display fine. However, about half-way down the page at the heading "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif; ">sRGB / Standard RGB 2.2 gamma" I've come across a problem. This photo is a tagged/untagged rollover of an sRGB image. It says that "</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif; ">If your monitor is profiled to 2.2 gamma and D65- 6500 kelvin, there should be minimum change in the Un-tagged sRGB rollover." In my Firefox window, the change is not minor, and I'm trying to figure out why this is.</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif; ">In my workflow all exif data is stripped from my photo's before I upload to the web. I thought that this wouldn't matter, as long as my final image was created in an sRGB colorspace. However, I have now found that my photo's look subtly but definitely different in the software I use (gimp, digikam) and my browsers.</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif; ">My limited understanding of color management led me to believe that un-tagged sRGB images should look the same in a browser on a color-managed system. However, on my system they don't and its causing a problem for me - my photo's don't display the way I intended. How can I resolve this? Is my understanding wrong, should I educate myself a bit more? Did I do something wrong when I calibrated my monitor?</span></div>
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