RE: filmscanners: [OFF] problem with image brightness

[derek_c@cix.co.uk (Derek Clarke)]

michael@shaffer.net (shAf) wrote:

> Julie writes ...
> 
> > Does everyone here embed sRGB colour spaces into web
> > graphics? I wasn't sure if this was the best thing to do
> > I assume it would help standardise how the
> > images are displayed on different machines. ...
> 
>       You might want to consider embedding the profile ... that is, IE 
for
> the Mac already is able to determine the profile and properly display
> the image.  Who knows when this will happen for IE for Windows, or
> when Netscape will catch on.
>       It does of course, add to the file size ... but if it is intended 
to
> be a full page high quality image, it will add only a few percent to
> the JPEG.
>       Better than reading the embedded profile, would be if browsers
> "assumed" sRGB and displayed it accordingly.

I think the results of erroneously translating colour spaces are far worse 
than those of simply leaving the colours as originally defined.