colorful Aneta

[drdave]

the left half is Aneta on a webpage as displayed by firefox 11.0. i dragged her (she didnt kick or scream ) onto my hd, opened her up in my native viewer, and she had magically changed colors! after a lot of head scratching, i deprived the local file of its embedded color profile, and opened it up in firefox. the result is the right half. so, firefox reads color profiles. what's weird is no other software i have could reproduce the color difference. Gimp will tell you the profile is there, and give you two options, but both options serve up the browner pic. MS Paint, Irfan, quicktime, windows pic & fax viewer? they dont know nuthin. another strange thing: the profiled version (left half) is inferior in color, imho.

I don't know what's going on, exactly. I think the profile should have been removed before publication. color profiles are used by people whose job is color, not by people whose hobby is looking at colorful pictures. Either that or end-user software is supposed to ignore profiles and for some reason firefox doesnt.

any insight, peeps?

 

[drdave]

colorful cindy

colorful cindy

since i posted about Aneta, i've seen a few more examples of color change. i've also read some relevant web pages here and there. firefox does manage colors, and most other apps do not. i still dont know why sometimes there are color profiles in our porn, but you can turn ff's "feature" on/off in the about:config page (see pic). requires ff restart.




here's the gallery if you want to test your browser

 

[drdave]

colorful Irfan

colorful Irfan

IrfanView does have an option to use color profiles. off by default. i have not explored the effect of turning it on

 

[Batman]

I don't know about color profiles, but I agree, the right ones look better imo. The yellowish skin in the left ones, look a bit unhealthier. Also the black levels are more detailed in the right ones.