Colour management in Chrome?

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I was uploading some recent images, which are all sRGB jpegs, and I saw that they looked very dark/high contrast and the colours looked very oversaturated. Viewing them in IE10 shows them as intended. So what's going wrong here? Using win8 if it makes a difference.
 
No love? I can't find anything on the web bar people saying that chrome now has built in colour management so my ICC profiles should be accurate.

I'm not sure why chrome is messing up my images, but others I see on the web look alright, so I'm still not 100% as to why mine only look good in IE, and why everyone elses look fine in chrome?

IE on the left, chrome on the right

AgCtD.jpg

And oddly enough chrome shows that image correctly for me (rather than doubling the effect) so it has to be some colour setting I'm using that chrome is picking up on?
 
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Right, I enabled colour management in chrome by adding --enable-monitor-profile to the end of the chrome path and now everything is consistent, but now I'm worried everyone is seeing my images and thinking they look terrible.
 
This sounds strange. Most (all?) software, unless specifically including colour management, will assume that the photo uses the sRGB colour space, which ought to mean that your photos should like right wherever they are viewed.
 
Philip Perfect said:
This sounds strange. Most (all?) software, unless specifically including colour management, will assume that the photo uses the sRGB colour space, which ought to mean that your photos should like right wherever they are viewed.
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That's what I thought. I think it';s some issue with my specific pc though, because chrome shows the images fine on my gf's pc.
 
Some of mine look a bit rubbish in Chrome too. The thumbnails on the right in the screenshots below are the same on both browsers - the difference is I used 'Save for Web' for those. So for me it must be how the images are saved, I'd guess it might be for you? I'm using Windows XP.

Chrome:
chrome-colour.jpg


IE:
ie-colour.jpg


I'd noticed they were different already, but not to the extent I have since I've seen your post! I need to fix this myself now...
 
It does sound like it's an issue with handling the colour profile you've got set up for your monitor. As a test, you could save a picture from a colour-managed program (such as Lightroom) as sRGB, which will embed an ICC profile into the file, and save another copy from a non-colour-managed program (for example IrfanView), which won't...

If the image without the embedded profile looks ok in the browser and the image with the profile looks wonky, I'd guess the browser is failing to handle your default monitor profile.

Do you have a "wide-gamut" monitor? For one of my monitors I have to add an extra config setting to Firefox (gxf.color_management.enablev4=true) otherwise it will mangle my photos that have embedded profiles. Apparently this allows Firefox to handle v4 ICC profiles instead of just v2. Sadly enabling that setting causes a bug that's been in there for years which stops it from displaying PNG files, but that's another story..!

I've noticed that the latest version of Chrome is also wrecking my images (they were fine in earlier versions), so it could be the same issue there.
 
That all sounds complicated! I still use a CRT monitor and Photoshop 7.

The profile the image I posted is set to is "Working RGB: sRGB IEC61966-2.1".

I suppose it's something I'll have to look into. It is possible to save from my Photoshop without an ICC profile so I'll try that. :)

Edit: I've just checked and my "Save for Web" settings don't include an ICC profile and they look fine, so your suggestion must be my problem. Is it advisable to include ICC profiles for web-based images? What percentage of people could this mess images up for? Have you seen any stats?
 
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