How do you get images on web and on CD to look the same on both MAC and PC

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Reuven_Wallack
Feb 4, 2007
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Hi-

I really need someone’s help bad. I am an artist, who perhaps unwisely purchased another Dell because Dell assured me that images of my artwork that I toned (utilizing Photoshop) on my Dell(PC) would look the same on both MAC and PC platforms. After getting my website on line, www.reuvenwallack.com, I learned from my brother that indeed this wasn’t the case. He said the images on his PC looked correct, but on his MAC they looked flat. Not only does this mean that MAC users are viewing my art incredibly skewed, but more importantly when I send galleries my images, because most of them use MACS, they are viewing very poor representations of my artwork.

I really don’t want to return my Dell, but if I cannot correct this problem in a workable fashion–both for on the Web and gallery purposes–then this Dell becomes useless to me for I am trying to make a career as an artist. So the question I’m putting out there is: Is there a workable way to make images appear identical across platforms? If so, how? I have started to read a little about this PNG format, is this a possibility? Or do need to just get a MAC like everyone has in the visual community–it would be a lot of extra work to go this route, but if it has to happen, then I will do it. I am hoping there is a way out of this problem. By the way, right now the images on my website are JPEGs and typically galleries want JPEGS (I believe because of file size, though I’m not sure.)

Thanks for any help from a very frustrated artist.

Reuven
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Klaas Visser
Feb 4, 2007
One thing you need to remember, is that not everyone (either Mac or PC) will have a colour calibrated display. This may account for the differences your brother is seeing between his Mac and his PC.

Also, it’s not so much the file type you use, as the colour space you are using. I’m assuming that any image you are sending out is in the sRGB colour space? This is pretty much the lowest common denominator as far as colour spaces go.
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Ed_Hannigan
Feb 4, 2007
Mac, not MAC please!
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LenHewitt
Feb 4, 2007
Reuven,

Remember that the web is (largely) not a colour managed environment. The vast majority of UserAgents (browsers) will interpret images as sRGB, so it is important to make sure your images are in that colour space.
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Daryl_Pritchard
Feb 4, 2007
Reuven,

Adding a bit more to Len’s comment, as he said the images will be interpreted as sRGB, whether the sRGB color space is tagged to that image or not. So, if your working color space is other than sRGB, save your file when done editing it, then make a copy and use Convert to Profile to convert the copy to the sRGB color space. Now, whether or not you save the file with an embedded ICC profile and whether or not any application reading the file looks for that information, you have at least ensured the color data is based upon sRGB.

Regards,

Daryl
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Michael_D_Sullivan
Feb 4, 2007
There are a number of other factors at work. Many Macs are set to use a gamma of 1.8, while PCs generally use a gamma of 2.2, so the same photo viewed on both will look lighter on the Mac with a lower gamma setting. Also, browsers vary in their degree of color management. I recall seeing a web page recently (don’t remember where) showing how an image will display differently on the Mac in Safari, Thunderbird, and IE, which all use different color management techniques. Also, if the image has the sRGB profile in it, a browser that is color managed may display it differently from how it displays an untagged image that was created as sRGB.
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Bob
Feb 5, 2007
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Mac, not MAC please!

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