Check your Browser Colours
Just a quick tip!
If you use Firefox 3.x then it supports ICC profiles. This enables the browser to display photos with embedded profiles more accurately, and helps you to see the photograph as the photographer intended. Although the web is unregulated colourspace, sRGB is adopted as a standard for posting photographs by the majority of photographers.
Here is a link to a handy page which will enable you to see whether your current browser recognises standard ICC profiles. Although the current Firefox browser engine supports profiles, it is supplied with that facility turned off! This page explains how to turn it on (it's very simple!).
If you use Photoshop, Adobe Elements or many other competent graphics programs then you can easily save your photos with an sRGB profile attached to them. Viewers using a profile-enabled browser will then stand a better chance of seeing your pictures with reasonable accuracy.
Here's the link:
http://spyder.datacolor.com/learn_expert.php
Bob 
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Hey, thanks for that Bob. I use Firefox all the time and PS for all my band photography, where most of my stuff ends up on bands myspace or web pages. I'll see what difference this makes.
Tony
www.stagedivephotography.co.uk
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Just checked google chrome , the GREEN shows up RED, BLUE shows GREEN and RED shows BLUE
and the shot of the boy on the bike is a mess , my only problem with this is why don't all the pictures I view in google chrome look ****, take a look at this shot on two browsers
http://www.myfinepix.co.uk/gallery/157/13089
I can see no difference what so ever , my monitor is ICC profiled , I am not saying the ICC profile in firefox is not a good thing , just a bit dubious about the google chrome being so far out as to show solid green has solid red , or am I missing something
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Hi Barry,
I don't use Chrome myself (just Firefox) but I was amazed that, although Firefox supports ICC profiles, it is supplied with the colour management turned off!
I'm just wondering whether this is also the case with Chrome?
I think the main point about using a colour-managed browser is consistency! I got fed up with viewing pics processed on my PC on my laptop in IE because there were subtle (and sometimes not so subtle!) differences. Both laptop and PC are carefully profiled to the same standard parameters (6500K gamma 2.2 etc). Viewing a pic in CS3 on the laptop all is good - but then posting it on the net and viewing in IE there are changes. Using Firefox with ICC profile support enabled at last gets me some consistency....
Of course there is a guy out there somewhere viewing your pics on an 18 year old CRT that is about to give up the ghost - he will not see the same thing....
Bob
http://www.myfinepix.co.uk/competition/entry/125267
David Bowie may be a star man but I'm not! (Can do CC though if required)
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Don't know if the is ICC in chrome , but there is no way the colours should be that much out , go view it in IE and see what I mean , if it were like that on all the shots we viewed ( when not using firefox) then we would feel sick , I have not looked at the code but the must be a switch on that page to check for the profile . I agree with some old monitor's but i wonder how many people even bother to set up their GPU's to profile their monitor
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I think the point here Barry is that the illustrations are 'trick' pictures designed to indicate very positively whether ICC profile support was enabled or not.
In order to make it very very obvious they have done something clever (I don't know what!) to cause the displayed colours to shift so dramatically.
With real life pictures, the difference will be relatively small. However I have found it quite significant. I uploaded a number of pics to a website (all with sRGB embedded profiles) and viewed then on a friends computer in IE and Firefox. I then turned on the colour management in Firefox (my friend did not realise it was not automatically turned on). The difference was very noticeable. With colour management enabled, the pics in Firefox were close to what I saw on my monitor at home when I uploaded the pics. They will never be actually identical due to differences in individual monitors' native capabilities.
I admit to being fussy though - and I use a good quality monitor whih I profile every fortnight with a decent colorimeter. I agree that most people don't do this.
Bob
http://www.myfinepix.co.uk/competition/entry/125267
David Bowie may be a star man but I'm not! (Can do CC though if required)
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Thanks Bob.
Very useful information.
I've now got my 'turned on'.
Jo
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I couldn't find that option in FF 3.5.
Tim