Please help: Problem with web display

[Georg R. Baumann]

This file here is an example:

The problem:

If it looks on your's like on loko's and my screen, then the foreground is way too dark, you see only shadows and the water, but no stones let aside gras.

What I did is:

1. PP in photoshop
2. change bit depth to 8 bit
3. convert to srgb
4. save for web

Now, on my mac with eizo and nec it looks correct when opened in safari.

Transferring the file to PC to share it here or with people results in the way to darl picture.

How can I sove that? What am I doing wrong?

 

[Georg R. Baumann]

Loko suggested to try whether the same happens with olympus files

and it does in deed.... the output is way too dark

Any ideas about that?

 

[Nill Toulme]

How do you have your monitors on the Mac calibrated? Is the PC's monitor calibrated?

I can see a reasonable amount of detail in the first image, good detail in the second.

Nill

 

[Rhys Sage]

On my Macbook, the photos look fine.

 

[Rhys Sage]

I'm using right now an elderly Dell Dimension 4300S with its built-in graphics card and a new widescreen Samsung LCD monitor. The photos both look fine.

I contend that it could be that your monitor is an elderly CRT model that may need to be replaced.

 

[Anil Mungal]

Now, on my mac with eizo and nec it looks correct when opened in safari.

Safari will use your colorsync profile and display the image accordingly. What are you using to view the image with on the PC. Also are the PC and Mac calibrated to the same gamma?

 

[fahim mohammed]

Georg, on my mac it looks beautiful!

 

[nicolas claris]

Georg
Embbed the sRGB profile, and will be fine!

 

[Doug Kerr]

Hi, Georg,

If it looks on your's like on loko's and my screen, then the foreground is way too dark, you see only shadows and the water, but no stones let aside gras.

Looks lovely here as my browser renders if from the post. Very dark and brooding, but good detail in the foreground stones and grass (the grass is in deep shadow).

Great shot, by the way.

Best regards,

Doug

 

[Michael Fontana]

George

you' ve one of these widegamut-displays?
Then sRGB will look much different, if the browser isn't ICC-aware.

 

[Thierry Hagenauer]

same here on my Mac and Safari: looks good with details (grass is shadowed).

Thierry

Hi, Georg,



Looks lovely here as my browser renders if from the post. Very dark and brooding, but good detail in the foreground stones and grass (the grass is in deep shadow).

Great shot, by the way.

Best regards,

Doug

 

[Kathy Rappaport]

uh oh

On my office computer (made for numbers crunching) it's dark, grass not visible....Dell with a 24" ultra sharp monitor....

 

[Michael Fontana]

okay folks
this is interesting for people with wide gamut displays, beeing sick of these oversaturated sRGB-colors. Firefox 3 can be made colormanaged as well:

"Note: Color management in FireFox3 is off by default. TO ENABLE COLORMANAGEMENT:

type
about:config
into the address bar. To turn it on, change the value of gfx.color_management.enabled to true and restart the Fire Fox browser. In addition to enabling color management in Firefox, you also should enter the name of the monitor profile - it's next to the enable/disable parameter in the parameters list that you get to by entering about:config in the address field."

Source

works fine... and it's a huge difference...

or install a addon from here

 

[nicolas claris]

Great tip, Michael, thanks!

 

[Michael Fontana]

You' re welcome Nicolas.
I found it sometimes quite difficult to °guess° colors here in the forum.

So from now on, when saving for web, I'll save with the sRGB-Profile.

BTW: The monitor profile's name is in the user's Library/Colorsync/Profiles