If you read this you'll understand when to use each and how to resolve
the confusion. You may have to sign up to read this (give them your
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some (mostly people related) photography tips. They don't share it with
others. Recommended. <http://www.shootsmarter.com/content/view/151/>
Chuck Norcutt
Jan Steinman wrote:
>> From: Richard Man <evpuneq.yvfgf@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> For web and printing, you MUST convert to sRGB, not Adobe RGB.
>
> May I qualify that statement a bit?
>
> I'd say, "For obsolete or out-of-date web browsers and inexpensive
> photo-finishing shops, you must convert to sRGB."
>
> Safari (and I think, Firefox and other Mozilla-based browsers) do just
> fine with arbitrary embedded colour profiles. I think (and I'm sure
> someone will correct me if wrong!) that MIE is still colour-profile
> blind.
>
> What you need to be extra careful of is not necessarily converting to
> sRGB, but stripping the embedded colour profile when you haven't
> converted, because in the absence of a colour profile, even profile-
> aware browsers will assume it's sRGB.
>
> For drug-store kiosk printing, it's probably a good idea to convert to
> sRGB. Certainly for home printing, or for using a professional
> printer, you can get better results (sometimes dramatically better
> results) with larger colour spaces, with the image properly tagged
> with the embedded profile.
>
> It all depends on whether you consider yourself "golden eyes" or not.
> If you're not too picky, by all means, do everything in sRGB and don't
> worry. But if you're discerning enough to tell the difference between
> a Zuiko 50/1.8 that says "Made in Japan" from one that says "Japan,"
> you probably would benefit from learning more about colour profiles,
> rather than simply converting everything to sRGB for printing.
>
>
> :::: The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable
> one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
> progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw ::::
> :::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality http://www.EcoReality.org ::::
>
>
>
>
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