my color managed jpgs look oversaturated and wrong when viewed from websites (tumblr, smugmug) and in my own photoshop compared to safari and icab
- i am viewing my pictures on a color managed NEC PA241 screen - plus, the firefox browser itself is over saturated
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This can be caused by a problem with the color profile for your display monitor or color profiles embedded in images.
Try to disable color management to test if it is caused by a problem with color management.
You can set the gfx.color_management.mode pref to 0 on the about:config page to disable Color Management.
You need to close and restart Firefox to make the change effective.
See:
Hi cor-el,
Thanks for this - unfortunately your suggestion did not fix the over saturation of my firefox 25.0.1 browser -
The skin of the browser itself is over saturated -
icab and Safari both show correct color from my srgb jpegs - i do photography so color accuracy is important, i color manage the files, monitor, ‘puter and everything agrees that my pictures look the same except firefox -
Just looking at the tumblr site, i’d say that all the pictures are over saturated via firefox -
I’m using OSX 10.9, thank you
Did you close the Firefox menu bar (Firefox > Quit) or possibly reboot the computer after setting the gfx.color_management.mode pref to 0?
Novain'i cor-el t@
yes I did restart firefox and then checked that the gfx.color_management.mode pref was at 0 -
I can’t restart the computer at this stage (too much else happening), but i will also do that when I can after an hour or so and will post a message with the results - thanks
You can also try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox.
- Firefox > Preferences > Advanced > General > Browsing: "Use hardware acceleration when available"
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
well cor-el, disabling the hardware acceleration button has solved the problem, maybe combined with gfx colour management = 0 also
firefox looks like everything else now so I can use it for my pictures - bliss -
thank you for your help, keith
Novain'i kglb t@
You're welcome.
It may not be necessary to disable color management if disabling hardware acceleration fixed it, so you can try to reset the pref to its default value.
yes you’re right - so it was just hardware acceleration that caused the problem (gfx=2 works) - I should have checked this before I wrote my previous message - sorry and thanks for the fix, keith
You're welcome and glad that you were able to fix it.