Browser image color quality/saturation

[toddmkeller]

Howdy do,


I take a lot of pictures of my chameleons and noticed that when I was using my default browser which was firefox at the time that the images didn't look nearly as good on the internet as they did on my image browser on my laptop. My first thought was it was Photobucket compressing my file, however I did a little research and found that viewing the same link in both Safari and Firefox yielded completely different results. The color saturation of the images is much much better. So I ask you;

Mac Users: Please confirm this. Do a side by side comparison of the photo below.

Windows users: Here is a LINK for a free download of the Safari browser. Please try to confirm this for me too.

Thanks!

Todd

 

[Docility]

i didnt get a difference with any of Chrome (my default)/FireFox/ Internet Explorer/ Safari

it could be that you have a setting telling certain programs what to use/ what quality. that sounds more likely to me

 

[YoshiTheVeiled]

Todd works for apple I heard.
Btw, same image quality for me across multiple browsers.
Firefox <3

 

[merumontanus]

Todd,

I compared the two photographs using the beta version of Safari (4.0), which is my default browser, and Firefox 3.0.7, and the photograph clearly appears much more saturated on Safari. I don't know how that relates to the actual saturation of the original image on your monitor, but I will compare the browser image on the studio monitor at work later today, which has an adjusted color profile for print and design.

Have you tried using Flickr for hosting your photographs? It doesn't even come close to Photobucket's horrendous upload compression.

Cheers,

Fabián

*For your reference, my initial comparison was made on a unibody Mac Book Pro with an LED monitor.

 

[merumontanus]

Todd,

I am viewing your photograph on a monitor with a professionally-managed color profile, and the differences between the two browsers is still visible. When I drag and drop the image onto my desktop (on the unibody MacBook Pro) and open it using Preview or Photoshop CS4, the image looks much closer to the image shown on Safari. The problem most likely lies in the way Firefox handles (or doesn't handle) color profiles, as opposed to Safari, a browser considered to be "color-smart", in that it takes into account the color profile used to export the original photograph in your computer (and another reason why I will continue to use Safari as my default browser).

Here's what I would do:

Export all your images from now on using a sRGB color profile (jpeg) so that browsers without "color-aware" capabilities can display the photograph as it was intended, even if they lack the ability to correct unprofiled images.

Here's a grab of my comparison:

 

[YoshiTheVeiled]

For firefox users, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6891
I then pointed it to c/windows/system32/spool/drivers/color/sRGB Color Space Profile.icm and the image looks correct now.

Or try about:config, then filter gfx.color_management.enabled and make sure it is set to TRUE

 

[ConcertPhotog]

thanks for the info on the Firefox plugin!