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.
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| 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.
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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.




