Color Discrepancy Crossing Over Browsers
While messing around on the computer this morning, I was starting to check out Safari, as I've been told it deserves a worthwhile look. Typically, I'm an exclusive Firefox user. However, that may change. I'm pretty sure I'm not crazy, but I see a color discrepancy on my flickr page when using safari vs. firefox. The safari colors are a bit richer and less flat. Not that firefox is awful or anything, but I'd never noticed this.
So, questions for you computer guys
1) Do you see it in the image below? (or am I just crazy)
2) Is this even possible?
3) What could be causing it? (same webpage, same computer, must be different browers, right?
Any thoughts would be helpful...
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3 comments:
1) Yeah, I see the discrepancy.
2) Yeah, that is possible.
3) Ideas I have of possible causes:
-The browser use different rendering engines, and Safari's image rendering algorithms are more than likely enhanced to improve the aesthetic of the image.
-The OS uses something called a color profile to maintain consistency over multiple display types (monitors, printers, etc.). I don't know a great deal about these, but it's possible Safari uses a different color profile.
Look at the image in your editing suite, and that will be the true view of the image.
from an image standpoint, it looks like the left has enhanced gamma value
Sorta like Strom was saying...
This is because of the way Safari (or Webkit) handles images vs. Firefox.
Safari supports color profiles by default, so the data that your image suite or camera embedded is read and applied. Firefox has the support for it, it's just off by default now cause it was recently added in 3.0.
You can enable it in firefox if you want:
1) Open firefox
2) go to about:config (accept the warning)
3) scroll till you find
"gfx.color_management.enabled"
4) Double click it to toggle it to true
Here seems to be an interesting link from Apple about it:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2026?viewlocale=en_US
~ nick
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