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Some thoughts about Color Profiles: Prophoto vs sRGB

Saturday, October 2nd, 2010

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The Horseshoe bend of the Colorado River, Arizona

(This post was orignally part of the story accompanying the photo of the HorseShoe bend in Arizona, see also the comments there)

The Horseshoe bend of the Colorado River, Arizona

The Horseshoe bend of the Colorado River, Arizona

I had added the following originally:
“This small version/preview does not do justice to the image and the scenery. I guess that some info was lost when I downsized this 300mb Tiff file :)”

I reuploaded the file as the original was in the Prophoto RGB color profile and only Safari would show it properly (and tweaked FireFox as well). With the current Adobe sRGB colourspace, all browsers should show the same and now the print you will receive when ordering an enlargement will resemble the above much better.

Thanks to the ImageKind community for some insights and discussions, see the thread here on the forum, where I just posted this comment:

“Hmm, many hours, 50 websites, several terabytes and one migraine later, I think it is starting to dawn on me.

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