OhLook wrote in post #18371948
Although this machine isn't the latest model, I bought it new. Whatever it's got, Apple provided. As Color LCD Calibrated looks just like Color LCD, I think it's there to choose after calibration.
Unfortunately, I don't have the vocabulary to understand everything you wrote. My preferred browser is Firefox.
The default looks best to me, the most realistic and most appealing. Some of the others are very dark, even muddy. sRGB isn't very different from Color LCD.
Thank you, Alan.
OK you are not really working in a colour managed workflow, which means that all of your hardware has been calibrated with a hardware device. You can be semi managed if you are at least using the correct manufacturers profiles for each device. This gets harder when you start to add printing, since changing any one of physical printer, the ink used, and the paper make/type will mean that you will need a different .icc profile for correct colour matching. Using the default profile on a new computer should be pretty close to good.
The .icc profile is the system that matches RGB values in an image, to make sure that all devices actually output the correct colour. It is essentially a big table of offset values to use to make different hardware produce the same rose pink colour for example. There are generally two types of profile, working and device. Generally working give you a standard to work from, which then makes converting the image to hardware much easier. sRGB although a working profile, was designed to match a "standard" monitor, so it should normally be very close if used as a hardware option. The other profiles are not designed to be used as display profiles.
Checking the show profiles for this display only box would be a very good idea, since it will show the profiles that Apple provided for the display, and none of the profiles for other devices, or any working spaces.
If Apple did a hardware calibration at the factory that would be the one with calibrated in the name, this seems most likely, as you normally name your own profile when you calibrate. If the Apple default profile is any good, then you should see no difference between it and the "calibrated" profile.
I would strongly suggest getting some standard test images to check, There are some links to standard images here, as well as some useful information on colour. I believe Keith is a POTN member. It is always useful to have some good standard images to hand.
Firefox as a browser is fully colour managed, but you do need to turn it on in the preferences. That way if anyone has been foolish enough to use a profile other than sRGB you should see the correct colours. That does still rely on the icc profile in the EXIF data not getting stripped out at some point. Unfortunately that can happen a lot, so in general it is best to stick to using the sRGB profile, which is the standard for the net.
Alan
