Opening the motorcycle pic in Safari on my Mac, it's green. If I save it and open it in photoshop, it's still green and I can see its color profile is Microsoft BGR Test Profile.
Paul On Mar 11, 2013, at 8:41 PM, Mark C <pdml-m...@charter.net> wrote: > Toine - > > Your thought got me thinking about a website I visited a few years ago. Never > thought I'd find it bu reading this thread again today I googled "vista color > management motorcycle image" and badda-bing badda-boom there it was. Check > out this image: > > http://www.mscwar.com/members/sniperx/greentest.jpg > > According the website - > > If the motorcycle is blue, the embedded profile was completely ignored. (you > don't have color mangment) > If the motorcycle is green, the embedded ICC profile was honored. (you have > color managment enabled > If the motorcycle is red, then you're running Windows Vista™ and you have > color mangment enabled > > The discussion thread for this is here: > > http://www.luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?topic=32115.0;wap2 > > FWIW - on my Windows 7 machine with color management enabled the motorcycle > is red. On the same machine, using Firefox with color management enabled, the > motorcycle is green. On another machine, running WinXP with no color > management (other than calibrize) the motorcyle is blue. > > Hopefully this is helpful. > > MCC > > > On 3/11/2013 3:52 AM, Toine wrote: >> What if the monitor is factory calibrated and has a devices specific profile? >> Calibration could/should be more accurate if you spend enough money on >> a accurate device. >> >> The real problem/suspect is Windows (and maybe OSX). Windows for sure >> can't handle wide gamut profiles with or without a PhD in color >> management. >> >> Toine >> >> On 11 March 2013 02:48, Mark Roberts <postmas...@robertstech.com> wrote: >>> I would also say that getting a wide gamut monitor before you get >>> calibration/profiling hardware and software is getting your priorities >>> wrong, but perhaps that's just me. >>> >>> -- >>> Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia >>> www.robertstech.com >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
