Thanks very much for your replies...good ideas. I'm pretty amateurish at this stuff.

The image opens as lighter in SV and normal if I just link directly to the exact same image. See the first image at:

http://www.kristuphir.net/photos/121706

versus the image directly at:

http://www.kristuphir.net/photos/121706 … G_4910.jpg

I tried the screen grab too - the values do come up way differently.

I'm using the latest SV version, if that helps any.

I don't actually have a program that creates or edits Flash on my computer...I wonder if I did, if I'd be able to change a setting somewhere?

BTW - Great photos!

The 'problem' is that Safari handles colors a lot better than any other browser, if you compare the photo's in Fire Fox you won't notice any difference, on Safari however the difference is huge.

Fire Fox.

Safari.

I think that the only thing you can do is hope that there will be a better Flash player that handles colors better (I guess that that the Flash Player is the problem).

Limited SRGB? Could you explain that, It would be really helpful for one of my own websites :)

I'm using SimpleViewer for the first time and I notice some lightening of images in SV. I hadn't noticed it until I had an image with some very white areas with a small amount of detail. Those white areas get completely blown out. I also now am aware of an overall lightening.

I haven't noticed a difference between Safari and FireFox. I'm using sRGB.

Yep, you have to use sRGB to flatten out the differing responses between browsers and Os.

I was using mac flavoured unix for post on my images until i discovered that
the OS was using high jpeg compression, so had to revert to web export in phtoshop.

this saved me a whopping 60% overhead in filesize ie 168k vs 60k

cheers Oyster

You need to run some tests on the conversion to sRGB.

Choose "saturation" intent and the "apple color sync" on mac.
Saturation intent distorts the int
ended colour space to favour high saturation.

If you on a MAc, check out /utilities and colorsync you can preview the differing colour spaces in 3d.

I agree that you should always use sRGB when preparing files for display on computers. That is what sRGB is for, it is the standard for computers and the internet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRGB_color_space

I usually need to adjust contrast and color saturation for display on computers. Even if you go to a lot of trouble to get the images exactly as you want them you will find that the images will look different on nearly every single monitor they are viewed on. I have two supposedly identical ldc monitors side by side and even they look different. Graphics cards, monitors, drivers etc will all effect how the image is displayed.

So if I were you I would get the images as close as you can using sRGB but don't spend too much time on it as oyu cannot gurantee how everyone else wil lsee them.

Also I generally do not imbed the color profile when saving for web, especially Simpleviewer. Not embedding also has the advantage of smaller file sizes especially in thumbnails.

See this post http://www.airtightinteractive.com/foru … php?t=4493

Felix do you see any chance to get that fixed in the future? color profiles are the only way on mac to display colors the right way (in safari or firefox3).

just have bought postcardviewer source script today ... but dont want to have that fade colors ... bad luck  :cry:
regards
thomas

well ... seems i have to live with it. just sad since other flash applications support color profiles like mentioned before in this thread. however i understand that the problem is complex in this case :rolleyes: 

regards
thomas

that's right only if the browser handles pics without profile like sRGB. that's the way windows does it. but (dont ask me why???) mac OS X handles pics without profile like monitorRGB which is different on every mac - in the case of macbook the colors are less saturated with a cooler tint. the new firefox beta5 can handle profiles and (thats new) reads pics without profiles as if they would be sRGB's.
for some reason thats not working with simpleviewer(/postcardviewer) neither with firefox not with safari or opera.
thats one of the strange things on mac computers as there is absolutely no reason for using monitorRGB for pics without profile.

since me and many of my friends and clients use mac's i won't use postcardviewer (which i've paid 45$ for yesterday) because the colors are too important for me.

regards
thomas