shifting sRGB red
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- nuggler
What an old and well-worn topic. I've been doing this forever but I'm still never sure whether there's a better way to keep my colors true. My old method was just to always work and save in sRGB, with poor results especially with bright reds.
Most browsers support embedded color profiles now, except in some tablets, but embedding the sRGB IEC61966-2.1 profile doesn't seem to help. I've got a red logo that always turns a little darker and duller. Maybe this red just doesn't exist in sRGB?
Any advice for getting my red across?
- detritus-2
Go faster. Much, much faster. Redshift that fucker.
- uan0
last time I checked the right method was to NOT embed or convert to any color profile, just output a pure image.
jpeg compression will always alter your colors slightly due to the compression algorithm, so only gif, png or svg will be true color.
- yes, and monitor profiles can often fuck up previews on your endmonospaced
- mugwart0
Might be an overkill but I can only recommend Charles Poynton.
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- mekk1
Depends on what your target medium is. Having your open work files limited to sRGB is a bad idea.
My workflow is as such: Working color space and display is set to eciRGB v2 for everything. For export, I convert to sRGB for screen work.