I use an iMac which has color management built in. I was just on an older MS PC to look at my website and everything looked awful. The brouser was Internet Explorer. It occurred to me that the older MS PC may not have had color management built in which could possibly account for the horrible appearance of my website photographs.
To create an image for my website, I set Photoshop color settings as follows:
Work Spaces settings:
RGB: sRGB IE61966-2.1
SMYK: U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2
Gray: Gray Gamma 2.2
Spot: DOT Gain 20%
Color Management Policies:
RGB: Off
SMYK: Off
Gray: Off
Preview is clicked on.
When I load a scanned print into Photoshop I remove any profiles embedded in the tiff file. After making all my changes with Photoshop I then save the file using File/Save for Web...
I do not believe that a profile is embedded in the file when I save the changes using Save for Web..., but I am not sure. My thinking is that most browsers will default to sRGB IE61966-2.1 if no profile is embedded and that the jpeg files will be a lot smaller. I believe when I placed a profile in the jpeg it almost doubled in size.
I also calibrate my new iMac using huey with the System Preference/Display brightness scale set to approximately 75% of a 100% in a dark room.
Am I doing everything correctly? Please note that I am not Photoshop or color management savvy.
Thanks for any considerations.
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