Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 7th Sep 2009 18:29 UTC, submitted by Moulinneuf
"If you're a Web designer, expect your CSS colors & your untagged/unmanaged images to look darker on Snow Leopard than on previous versions of the Mac OS. You'll also see less of a visible color shift when going from Photoshop to Flash or other unmanaged environments (e.g. Internet Explorer). Why is that? Apple has switched to a default gamma of 2.2, which is what Windows has used for years. Colors that aren't color-managed are going to look darker on the whole. Your whole display will now be closer to what Windows users see."
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RE[3]: Preprocess graphics?
by CaptainN- on Tue 8th Sep 2009 20:16
in reply to "RE[2]: Preprocess graphics?"
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I think that's a mistake that many color management advocates make - it should not be just for images. Windows and OS X's basic interface should be color managed as if they contained an sRGB profile (in fact, so should anything with no embedded profile), if that was the case then higher gamut monitors would actually look better in most cases (right now OS elements are far too bright in general, unless you adjust settings on the monitor, which the industry should ban outright, if they are serious about color management). Complex topic.
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2006-06-03
I imagine that a theme which uses images with embedded profiles will display correctly