Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Glenn Randers-Pehrson Glenn Randers-Pehrson 1, 1 1 gold badge 9 9 silver badges 15 15 bronze badges. Ok, it seems completely sensible that I don't need a color profile for web-destined images. Why would I need it for other images? TheChymera stereonet. In order to navigate between these points and any other point you need to know: where you are where you want to go what to do with the bits that exceed this conversion called intent So since intent is bundled with the CMS engine Color Management Systm settings of the image, you need to know two points the images profile and the target profile.
Why not encode all in sRGB? Summa summarum So if the image is not for web store the images defined working space and dont convert it until you need to if you want to retain as much data as possible.
Community Bot 1. This video explains it well. Super awesome displays look better with super awesome content, but regular content might look too saturated. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook.
Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. Featured on Meta. Now live: A fully responsive profile. Related Hot Network Questions. In Photoshop you can choose to include or exclude the ICC color profile metadata when you choose Save As to save an image for the web.
There are pros and cons to leaving the color profile off. Leaving the ICC color profile off can result is potentially a better option for images on the web:. If you want to find out more about color profiles and the rationale for using sRGB for your web images, here are some links:. OM4 is an Australian based web agency that helps you find customers and convert online. We specialise in creating custom designed WordPress and WooCommerce websites that our clients can update themselves.
On a wide-gamut monitor, the colors will pop a bit more. If you must leave the profile out, making sure that the image is in the sRGB color space will limit any resulting damage. Two or three of the more popular browsers will still display the color faithfully because they automatically guess the profile correctly i. Because the profile has been left out of this same ProPhoto RGB image, the brightness and color will look terrible in most browsers and on most monitors. By contrast, a missing profile for an sRGB file would be undetectable to a large number of people.
Embedding the profile into images is usually just a case of checking a box when you export the photo. If you want to check the color of your web images before publishing, open them directly in a browser preferably a reliable one like Chrome and see how they compare to the original in your photo-editing program. Be a little wary of uploading images to platforms that strip out the profile, though these will not typically be photo gallery sites.
Embedding or stripping out profiles usually only requires you to check or uncheck a box when saving. Be sure not to overwrite the original file and save it this way, because larger color spaces are a better choice for outputs such as inkjet printing. Color management needs at least two profiles to work image profile and monitor profile in this case.
When color management is absent from the browser or app for whatever reason, the following statements are true:. Note that an Adobe RGB image without a profile embedded looks muted in most situations and must be avoided. Browsers will guess the color space to be sRGB if they guess at all.
The graph above shows the difference between a standard-gamut Dell monitor colored outline and the sRGB profile dotted outline. Even on a regular desktop monitor, some colors are quite likely to exceed the sRGB color space and look too saturated when viewed in Microsoft browsers. To understand color profiles, it helps to know how different browsers behave with color.
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