Is your browser/OS colour managed?

[RickS]

What colour is the car?

http://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2012/06/S2fzq.jpg

[multiweb]

Dijon mustard with a touch of beetroot when you save it. :P

[RickS]

You must be on a Mac :lol:

[multiweb]

PC, Windows 7 64. That's a weird one. The histogram looks exactly the same.

[RickS]

So, it appeared correctly (yellow) in your browser and then purple (not colour managed) after you saved it, Marc? What browser were you using? Sounds like it stripped the profile when it downloaded the file.

Cheers,
Rick.

[multiweb]

I was viewing in IE11.0.20. When I saved the file I saved two version. Funny thing is when I load the purple car in PS and the orange one in a separate file the histogram is similar. When I copy paste the orange car in a new layer in the purple file then the orange turns gray scale and looses the color.

[multiweb]

Got it. The RGB palette is rotated. Swap RGB to GBR :)

[DavidTrap]

Yellow when saved on my Mac Rick.

DT

[LewisM]

Looked orange/yellow in all versions I opened in PS UNLESS I selected NOT to colour manage, then it was Sidonio Magenta/Purple.

[troypiggo]

Interesting.

Yellow when viewed in:
Chrome
PixInsight
Adobe Photoshop CS2
Windows Photo Viewer
thumbnail in Windows Explorer

Purple when viewed in:
Irfanview
MaximDL
MS Paint

[pluto]

Yellow in Chrome, FF, PS, windows pic viewer and some other viewers.
But purple in MS Paint (and thanks for getting me to open Paint for the first time this millennium...)

Also tried on a Mac, and yellow in everything.

[FlashDrive]

same here .... yellow in Firefox.
.... purple in MS Paint.

interesting...!! :shrug: ... how so....?

Col.....

[RickS]

The image has RGB values that would normally be interpreted as a purple colour in any typical colour space. A couple of samples are <R=103,G=0,B=177> and <R=165,G=0,B=235>. If you display these values directly on almost any screen you'll get a purple colour.

The image also has an embedded colour profile called "Jeffrey's Funky RGB." This instructs the colour management system, if one is being used, to map these values to a yellow colour before displaying them.

So, if the image is displayed without colour management the car is purple. If colour management is active then the car will be yellow.

Cool, eh? :)

Cheers,
Rick.

[Slawomir]

Purple in IE (Windows8) and purple on iPhone.

[OICURMT]

Yellow in GIMP (Win7) ... :P

[LewisM]

Hmmm... never checked it in other browsers. Let's see:

Chrome: yellow
IE: would not open the page (who cares... who uses IE????!!!!!!!!!)
Firefox: yellow
Maxthon: yellow

PS: yellow with management on, purple if turned off.
Paint: purple (I too had NEVER opened paint since installing Win 7...)
PixInsite: purple
MaxIM: Purple

[FlashDrive]

Thanks Rick ... well there yah go...:thanx:

[Geoff45]

Yellow on my 2 (calibrated) PC's. Purple on the iPad.
Geoff

[pluto]

Seeing this I tried my phone and it's purple on both Chrome and FF on Android.

[Steffen]

Yellow in Safari on the Mac and, after saving, in Preview.

Purple in Safari on iOS and, after saving, in Photos.

[troypiggo]

You haven't set colour management in PI then ;)

[LewisM]

Narp, 'cause I don't use PI. I still can't get my head around it - mostly due to NOT trying. I just stick to my old workhorses - CCDStack stretch, into PS CS5.

[RickS]

Interesting results... Despite the survey numbers it looks like it's not that hard to to get a purple car :) Even some apps that do colour management quite well don't have it turned on by default :shrug: