Firefox 3 - Colour Management

[Kym]

Refer: http://www.gballard.net/psd/go_live_page_profile/embeddedJPEGprofiles.html

The next major release of Firefox (3.5) has Colour Management turned on by default.

You can turn it on now (3.0.x) using this method...

Type "about:config" in the address bar of Firefox 3.
Click thru confirmation page and find: gfx.color_management.enabled
Double click that until it says "true".
Then restart Firefox 3.

Hint: Images posted for comps should be in sRGB colour space as not everyone has colour managed browsers and that is the only way to ensure your image presents well to all potential voters.

[Jcas]

Nice one!!!! thanks Kym:)

[Chris G]

Cheer's kym, did not know that about firefox 3.x :)

[jim]

This proved helpful. I've been having an odd problem with colour management, in that colours displayed the way I wanted them in Photoshop.(and seemed to match the prints I get from DigitalWorks) but came out oversaturated in every other program (Irfanview, Firefox, Explorer). Photoshop seemed the odd one out, which was a bit of a worry...

Going from Irfanview 4.20 to 4.25 caused it to match Photoshop without my changing any settings (!?), and now this hint has brought Firefox into line.

They still display wrong in Windows Explorer though.

[Tannin]

What's happening, Jim, is that your colour-managed programs are displaying correctly, and your other programs are not. Some people would say tha you need to get more colour-manged programs. But a much, much more practical and effective answer is to adjust your display system - monitor and graphics card settings - so that you always get good colour. If you adjust the display system correctly in the first place, you don't have to touch anything else. Do it once, do it right. Much easier.

[Kym]

Refer: http://www.ausphotography.net.au/forum/showthread.php?t=33561

1. Get your monitor calibrated (manually if you have to or with a device)
http://www.ausphotography.net.au/forum/showthread.php?p=232445#post232445

2. use sRGB for publishing to the web

That keeps everything simple

[jim]

Ok, ta.

Kym, I've been using sRGB for a couple of years now. It didn't take much experimenting with other colour spaces to show me I didn't need the headache.

As for monitor calibration, that's where the problems started. I clearly messed it up, and I'll have to do it again some time. Meanwhile I'm using the profile I downloaded from my monitor's manufacturer, and colours seem to display properly in the programs that matter.

I haven't finished with this but I'm on a plateau. Feel like doing something else for a while.