[Openicc] Questions about color pickers and graphics libraries under LINUX

[Chris Murphy]

On Feb 12, 2008, at 1:27 PM, Hal V. Engel wrote:

> On Tuesday 12 February 2008 09:19:42 Tim Rowley wrote:
>> On Feb 12, 2008 10:22 AM, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com>  
>> wrote:
>>> On Feb 12, 2008, at 1:38 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
>>>> I can optionally turn it on in FireFox 3 and then magic
>>>> happens.
>>>
>>> it = color management
>>>
>>> FF then assumes sRGB for untagged images, html and css content;  
>>> grabs
>>> the display profile from the OS and has ColorSync do display
>>> compensation.
>>
>> Firefox uses lcms to do the color correction for all platforms  
>> (rather
>> than ColorSync on OS-X, for example).  Due to this, its color
>> corrected results may be different from other applications.
>
> But these differences are likely very small compared to differences  
> between
> individual displays and to a greater extent the differences between  
> consummer
> quality and high end wide gamut displays.


Actually you will see quite a discrepancy between Photoshop and  
Firefox due to the lack of black point compensation to the display.  
It's not always small, although I wouldn't call it a disaster by any  
means.

Chris