Getting the colors of your photos looking right in all browsers
I had this problem of all my pictures looking really washed out in some web browsers. The problem is that a lot of browsers don’t support color profiles, so even if include a profile it will be ignored. Instead the sRGB color profile is used. This makes pictures that look good in Photoshop look bland in your browser (unless of course you use Safari on Mac that use included color profiles)
Here’s a picture that originally has a the Adobe RGB(1998) which has a larger color gammut than the more used sRGB. But if you export the image without any modifications using “Export to Web…” in Photoshop, this is how it looks.


Compare the left one that’s exported without doing anything to it to the right one that has had color profile settings changed. The left one looks a bit bland and missing information?
How to fix this?
I did a lot of experiments, and this works for me. There’s probably a better way of doing this, so please feel free to correct me in the comments.
Open the picture in Photoshop and do the normal stuff like changing size and other adjustments.
When you are finished and want to export it, first do this:
I’m going to convert the image to my profile for my screen and as you can see my calibrated profile name is “New Profile (2009-01-13 04-43), but If you don’t have a calibrated screen, use “Color LCD”.

Under the Edit menu, select “Convert to Profile…”

Select your screen profile under “Destination Space”, in my case New Profile (2009-01-13 03-43) and press return.

Now it’s time to export for web.

Try to upload to the web and see if it makes a differense. It should.
To get the best result you really should get a screen calibrator. This is a device that makes sure that the colors on screen is correct. Here’s a couple.
“ColorVision S3P100 Spyder3 pro” (ColorVision, Inc.)
I have this one, and I’m very satisfied.
“GretagMacbeth Eye-One Photo – Colorimeter / color calibrator” (GretagMacbeth AG.)
Now we’re talking more money but also more exact results.
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