Colour management in Chrome?

Devrij · 11 Jan 2013 at 23:08

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.

Devrij · 12 Jan 2013 at 11:59

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

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?

Devrij · 12 Jan 2013 at 12:44

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.

Devrij · 12 Jan 2013 at 17:35

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.

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.