Yet more color disparity

[rajah sulayman]

I sweartagod, color management is gonna give me an aneurysm. Suspecting something was "off" with my display's color reproduction, I did a quick non-scientific test.

First, I re-calibrated my monitor with my x-rite i1.

Then, I opened up Photoshop CS4 and Ultraedit's Color Picker and manually selected full red (ff0000) and saved a screenshot as a PNG.

Then, I opened up the PNG in two browsers -- Firefox, with color profiles enabled via about:config, and Chrome, which does not support color profiles -- as well as in Photoshop, which is supposed to support color profiles.

Looking at the screenshot of all three apps below, two things strike me as curious.

If Firefox and Photoshop are supposed to support color profiles but Chrome isn't, why does the color look the same in Photoshop and Chrome, but not Firefox?
Why does it look more like red in PS and Chrome, but not FF? Shouldn't it be looking like red in PS and FF, but not Chrome?


What am I doing wrong here?

The screenshot:

http://i43.tinypic.com/1hz4t2.png

[Adamora]

Looks like different dynamic ranges in each program.

dont worry yourself over trivial stuff like this, if you calibrated right and the print comes out right, you have nothing to worry about.

[rajah sulayman]

The reason I'm stressing over it is because I want to cook up some new graphics for my website and I'm afraid to if Photoshop and Firefox aren't reporting the same colors.

For example, my pages (sample at http://focalmatter.com/portfolio/) use the bgcolor #4E6378. Yet that color looks wildly different in Photoshop and Firefox.

Look at the screenshot below. That's the same color value. #4E6378. I included Photoshop's info box for reference, and if you go to the URL above you can check the code to verify it's using the same hex values. Yet the color representation is incredibly different. And now I'm not sure which one to believe, which makes it impossible to do graphic work with any confidence.

http://i43.tinypic.com/2uogvpg.png

[Adamora]

i just checked, all the images in mozilla appeared...washed out, Chrome added more dynamic range to them.

But holy cow the above image is too radical in differences, someone proffesional step in here puleez

[rajah sulayman]

Yeah. I'm seriously lost as to why the disparity is so huge. Even when I turn profile management off in FF, the change in color is only subtle. It doesn't end up anything like how it looks in PS.

Could the issue be with PS?

[Adamora]

maybe...or it may be an issue with firefox...

[rajah sulayman]

Or, as it turns out, maybe it's an issue with me being an idiot.

I was still in ProPhoto mode. I forgot to switch to sRGB for webwork.

[Adamora]

yay, your an idiot ^-^! jking ;p

lol, thankfully your problem is solved :D have fun

[rajah sulayman]

yay, your an idiot ^-^! jking ;p
No, you pretty much had it right the first time. 99% of my Photoshop use is image tweaking, so I just leave it in ProPhoto 24/7. Which is great most of the time, but a pain in the ass when I forget to switch it back to sRGB for webwork.

[Adamora]

Get 2 monitors then, one with a notepad open reminding you to close prophoto with bright flashing colors, and one for work :3

[René Damkot]

I was still in ProPhoto mode. I forgot to switch to sRGB for webwork.

Even then, if a profile is embedded in the image, PS and FF3 should display identical...