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Re: [OM] Colour Space, a cautionary tale.

Subject: Re: [OM] Colour Space, a cautionary tale.
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:48:49 -0400
I love the night shot along the river.  I also liked the twig and leaves 
but wish the DOF had covered the second leaf.

Chuck Norcutt

Patrick Moore wrote:
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> I was sitting at the computer at the weekend, looking at the photos I'd       
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> just developed in Lightroom.  I was happy with the results.  I uploaded       
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> them to my (rather disfunctional) website and thought they looked rather      
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> dull and uninteresting in comparison.   Initially I thought it was the        
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> gallery software I was using;  perhaps something was going wrong in the       
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> conversion.    Swapping between the uploaded copy and the local copy, I saw   
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> the uploaded one was significantly less vibrant, interesting and frankly,     
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> not how it looked in the local copy.                                          
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> Originall I was looking at it in Firefox,  so switched to Safari and          
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> noticed that it seemed fine there.  *click* went the switch in my head, and   
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> I remembered about colour profiles.  Firefox was using it's internal          
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> profile, not that embedded in the image.  Firefox 3 can use embedded          
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> profiles, it just chooses not to by default.  My bad. I tuned on using        
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> embedded profiles, and it all just worked.  Everything looked as I wanted.    
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> I went back to Lightroom, realised I had exported as AdobeRGB rather than     
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> sRGB.   I've now fixed this and subsequent exports should be fine.            
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> So yes.                                                                       
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> For what it's worth, this was the set that prompted me to look into this,     
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> though previous ones were affected too.                                       
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> http://the.earth.li/~paddy/cgi-bin/range.pl?dir=april_2009_assorted_blend     
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> p. 
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