on 26/2/2003 11:56 AM, Keith Cooper wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Is there any reason NOT to profile tag images saved for web? >> The added profile appears to add hardly anything to the file size. >> >> I have been snooping around various highly respected photographers web sites >> (photographers from this list and known for advocating serious colour >> management) and I have been surprised to notice that the jpegs are not >> tagged. Is there any reason for this? >> >> Many thanks >> >> Simon
Adding a profile to each image adds about 4k. This would quickly add up if your webpage had several images on in. There is a better way, however. Instead of adding a profile to each image, you can specify an HTML tag which tells browsers that support icc profiles to use that profile for the whole page. This means that images are colour managed, but the whole page size only gowes up by 4k, not 4k per image. The HTML tag is as follows <body iccprofile="Profiles/srgb.icm"> where Profiles/srgb.icm is replaced by the link to where you store the profile on the server. This can easily be done in Adobe Golive using the Page Tag (where you can also set the page title etc) > Hi > > Browser/OS support for this is somewhat problematic. It also depends on who > you expect to be looking at the images, and on what platform. It is often > recommended to use sRGB for web images, since it will match things better on > more systems. For testing I'll often open up browsers on a Mac and Windows > on the same monitor (using Virtual PC) to show the differences. > As far as i know, no Windows browser supports profiles. IE & safari on the mac supports profiles. Netscape (up to version 6) doesn't. I've not loaded version 7, so I don't know about that one. > With any web based set-up, you have to accept that many of the machines that > are looking at your site will be set up in a way that would make most of us > wince... > Although I agree that everyones monitor is different, I think that by setting up your colour to an average standard helps. Also, as new browser versions become available, if your website is already using profiled images, the colour can only improve. Lee Badham Bodoni Systems Ltd - Key solutions in digital imaging. Tel: 01895 825776 Fax: 01895 825994 web: http://www.bodoni.co.uk =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
