Web browsers and ICC colour profiles


A web browser is software that allows to gather text, images, multimedia files and other stuff from the internet. Examples are MS Internet Browser, Mozilla Firefox, Safari. Many web browsers are not very good at displaying true colours of photographic images. The reason is, that they do not read ICC colour profiles that are embedded in properly saved images.

To test your browser, read the text below and look at the test image.


The image below, was created and then split into two vertical halves - each saved with different ICC colour profile.

Test image - leftTest image - right
   
If you see the entire image with correct colours, the web browser supports ICC Colour Management. If the left half of the image has incorrect colours, it doesn't.

 

The images below are examples of how the test image may look in a web browser.

ICC profiles supported ICC Profiles not supported
The web browser supports ICC profiles
The web browser doesn't support ICC profiles

NOTE: ICC colour profiles embedded in the images are property of Adobe Systems.

Back to the top