SFW (Save for Web) is supposed to strip out all color profiles. Shel
> [Original Message] > From: Anders Hultman > On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Tom C wrote: > > > Recently I've noticed substantial (by that I mean someone as careless as > > myself can notice and do a double take) color shifts when I save images as > > .jpgs using the 'Save for Web' feature. I don't see the color shifts when I > > create a .jpg using 'Save As'. I've also seen changes in tonality when > > saving gray scale images with 'Save for Web'. > > > > I'm wondering if anyone knows the reason why. I don't ever recall seeing > > this happen prior to this version. > > I have noticed it in earlier versions as well, and I suppose it's > something intrinsic to the "save for web" function. Embedding of some > colour profile may be one answer (since this colour shift appears > different in different web browsers) or it may just be that the function > tries to remap colours to make the jpeg compression more efficient or > something. I never use the function myself, and don't see any reason to. > What does it give me that an ordinary "save" doesn't? > > Last month, I bought some illustrations to a web site I work on. The > background of the site is a very light blue, and I wanted the > illustrations to have the same background colour. But since the artist > used "save for web," the background colour was slightly different on > different computers (Win2000, WinXP, MacOSX, MacOS9). He had so re-save > using the ordinary "save" in order to make the background colour correct. > > anders > ------------------------- > http://anders.hultman.nu/ > med dagens bild och allt!
