Colour rendering differences between firefox and IE ?

tfboy

I can't get my head around this.

Uploaded a load of photos from lightroom, they look find when browsing the gallery in Firefox (v3.6.3). Then went to IE (8.0 both 32 and 64 bit version) and the photos render in a far more vivid manner, too vivid in fact. People's faces look burnt, violet in colour!

I've checked the URL in the lightbox view and the photo is the same, and so can't understand the difference between the browsers. When looking at the photo in Lightroom, it's kind of between the two! And yes, the photo was exported as sRGB

OS is W7 64-bit, viewing on a calibrated HP LP2475w monitor.



Any ideas?

jfriend

Firefox is color managed (if your monitor color profile is accurate, then Firefox will use it so it can correct the color display for your particular monitor to show accurate colors).

IE is not color managed so it will not show accurate colors - never has.

There is nothing you can do about this other than recommend Firefox or Safari (both color managed browsers). It's a good reason not to use IE. The error in IE is worse on today's wide-gamut displays than it was on older displays (because their profile is further from sRGB).

tfboy

jfriend wrote: »

Firefox is color managed (if your monitor color profile is accurate, then Firefox will use it so it can correct the color display for your particular monitor to show accurate colors).

IE is not color managed so it will not show accurate colors - never has.

There is nothing you can do about this other than recommend Firefox or Safari (both color managed browsers). It's a good reason not to use IE. The error in IE is worse on today's wide-gamut displays than it was on older displays (because their profile is further from sRGB).

Thanks John. Makes perfect sense and just gives me one more argument not to use IE