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Safari and Firefox display different colors by Georgios Karamanis.
Today I started using Firefox for managing my photos in flickr. Greasemonkey scripts can make your life easier (unfortunately none of them works with Creammonkey in Safari).

I noticed that they display colors slightly differently.
After reading This is your Mac on drugs, I noticed that I had uploaded a PNG, saved by Photoshop.
It has to do with color profiles, I'm not sure how I can explain it correctly, you should read it yourselves! 
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Mad_T  Pro User  says:

I experienced the same recently.
I work with photoshop cs3 - and uploaded to flickr, the safari pics look more like their "originals" from photoshop than on firefox.
I save my files with a srgb colour profile thing.
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Paul Green (matadordesign.co.nz) says:

As the article explains Safari has a problem with PNGs. Try this again with jpegs in each, saved to sRGB (for web) and see what you get. Im interested,
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Georgios Karamanis  Pro User  says:

I used "save for web and devices" from the file menu and worked.
Jpegs both with and without embedded sRGB colour profile (in the normal 'save') are not displayed properly.
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Paul Green (matadordesign.co.nz) says:

Im not sure I understand.

Using save for web and using the optimized view, you should be shown a soft proof of the resulting optimized image. IE what happens when your original is crunched down to the sRGB colour space. If you embed that profile, any colour aware apps should display it correctly.

Saving as jpegs without embedding the profile will mean colour aware apps have to fly blind.

The normal save problem may just be that you dont get shown what that is doing to your image until you see it in the browser.

Is that what's happening?
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Georgios Karamanis  Pro User  says:

I think I understand now. I've found this:

Browsers also ignore profiles and assume every image is in sRGB, which is what Save for Web is showing you. (JPEGs can optionally embed a color profile, but only Safari recognizes them. If you want a JPEG with an Adobe RGB profile, you have to use Save As, not Save for Web. And hope all your site visitors are using Safari.)


So, embedding a profile is actually different from crunching down to sRGB and it makes no difference, since only Safari recognizes embedded profiles.

That's what I understand :)
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photoni says:

monitor calibration

www.flickr.com/photos/photoni/87444342/



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gatom0g  Pro User  says:

hey, just saw this yesterday :P

www.dria.org/wordpress/archives/2008/04/29/63 3/
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