I was posting pictures of my mom coming for vacation and had a couple pictures that were looking quite flat. I know a few things about color management and I’ve been slowly giving up on Safari, switching in Firefox for most of its duties. Well, I saw the red flowers from the Schulz Museum and discovered they were mostly grey with some red in them. I knew for a fact that they had been exported properly, so what gives?
Test 1: Open in Preview. That looked good. Hmm.
Test 2: Open in Safari (sRGB encoded, default Aperture setting). Looked good as well. Less red, but still very red.
Test 3: Open in Firefox. Gag. What is going on here?
Well, a short search later, and you discover that the latest 2.x releases don’t do any color matching support. AND even if you DO get version 3 beta, you have to go to the hidden settings screen (about:config in the address bar) and turn it on, then restart the browser.
But.
Once it’s done, it’s right. I opened Adobe RGB, sRGB, and Generic RGB encodings of the same brilliantly red flowers, and they all looked almost identical to what Aperture showed them to be. Close enough that I didn’t notice. Score one for the Mozilla folks, this one does work. But for all love, turn it on by default.
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