[filmscanners] RE: Thumbnails looking flat

["Paul D. DeRocco" <pderocco@ix.netcom.com>]

As I said, web browsers (at least under Windows--I don't know about the Mac)
don't do any color management. They just give the RGB data to the video
display. This means that the data are interpreted as though they were in a
color space defined by the monitor profile. My monitor profile is very close
to sRGB, and indeed I understand that sRGB was designed to be comparable to
a typical monitor. My LCD has an even smaller gamut.

I doubt the original poster's dullness problem comes from the conversion
from Adobe RGB to sRGB. If you're looking at the images on a typical
monitor, then those extra colors that Adobe RGB contains aren't visible
anyway. If an image really contains those colors, then the ICM engine may
indeed be desaturating all colors, rather than clipping them (that's what
"perceptual" rendering intent means), but not that many images really have
such saturated colors in my experience.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@ix.netcom.com

> From: Joe
>
> It's my understanding the sRGB is the narrowest RGB gamut available in
> PS's default color space options. I know that Adobe RGB is wider, and so
> it is clipping some colors in moving from one to the other.
>
> Perhaps this is causing the dullness. Is the concensus RGB color space
> for  web display of jpegs sRGB? If that's the case, I can't see any real
> reason why, aside from overcautiousness.

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