Image/Color/B&W quality

[ivar olsen]

From time to time we all have a discussion about the color/brigthness/contrast

in pictures. I've just discovered that I didn't utalize the full possibility in my

browser.

I use a MAC, (with Explorer 5.2 for MAC, Adobe CS) , the Adobe and screen

have been set up with Adobe RGB (1998) colour profile. Recently I

discovered a tick box in the Internet Expolorer preferences called "Use

ColorSync " and when doing so I can see a noticable difference in the

pictures brightness/contrast when viewing them in Explorer. Just a tip...and it

would be cool to hear if others have been plaing around with the same result.

Below is a picture I attached to show what I mean.

 

Cheers! Ivar :-)<div></div>

[david_h._hartman]

Ivar,<br>

<br>

Im feeling a touch of McEnvy so Im going to brazenly

use your post for a test. Ive been wondering if PHOTO.NET

supports *.PNG files as it does *.JPG files.<br>

<br>

BTW, does anyone have comments on Win2000 or XP and color control

with IE or FireFox? I can't find anything similar to what Ivar

points out in these Windows browsers. Have I missed something?<br>

<br>

Best,<br>

<br>

Dave Hartman.

[david_h._hartman]

One more test and a question: the upload instructions mention

JPG and GIF files as the only files that most browsers display

but PNG file support is quite common now (at least IE 5.5, 6.0

and FireFox 1.0 for Windows supports PNG). Is there any advantage

to using PNG for color images v. JPG? I do find I can deeply

compress B&W line art with PNG.<br>

<br>

Again, its there anything similar to what Ivar demonstrates here

for color control with Windows browsers? Thanks!

[mottershead]

photo.net expects JPEG files for photos uploaded to the Gallery and in the No Words forum. The code assumes JPEG files. For image attachments on other types of posts, you can probably get away with a wider assortment of image types. In the Gallery, you can actually trick the software to take some other graphics formats by putting a ".JPG" or ".JPEG" extension on the filename, since the software will sometimes look inside the file to see what the file actually is, and may do the right thing anyway. If you pay close attention, you might notice that some people have figured this out and done it; but it is a bug, and relying on this behaviour working in the future will probably lead to grief.

[ivar olsen]

Thanks for getting back Brian! :-))

 

Ivar