MacBook Pro and Web Color

*Last edited by blinking8s : 2006-07-23 at 20:22.*

I must really not know much about hardware or color to have to ask this question...but I got a macbook pro a month ago, been totally loving it, my web dev days have pretty much ended and this week was the first time I decided to try to work on some web design stuff.

Anyways...I dont know much about monitor calibration or color, I have an old Sony LCD and it always just worked...the macbook pro seems to do the same for photography/print, but the web is another story.

When I save an image out of photoshop, save as, save for web, png, gif, jpeg...whatever...it doesnt match the html background color on a mac. On a PC it looks fine, but on a mac its different.

does anyone know why? or how to fix that?

*edit*
it appears to only happen with safari or browsers with similar engines.

http://blog.blnking8s.com

blinking8s · 2006-07-24 #2

ok, no reply here yet, but after some testing, there is a really random mixture of ways different browsers appear to render out different images (prfiles, file types and saving methods) as well as some minor variations in hex color codes.

curious to know more though, I cant seem to make much of it.

Pixelcache · 2006-07-28 #3

I've noticed the same thing myself on Safari as far as color shifts. I am designing a flash site and the background in flash is the same as the background for the html page, but Safari renders it in two different colors. This is frustrating for me because I know there will be color shifts between the PC and the Mac, and I am fine with that, but when Safari renders the same image in two different colors in the browser window it drives me nuts. Get this Firefox displays the same image in the same color for both the swf and html page.

I followed the same priniciples as Adobe gave in their tutorial, and have followed those prinicples for quite some time. I say down with Safari.

v1q · 2006-07-28 #4

yes its a commonly known problem, i see it alot around the web, only on safari tho. i dont get it why apple didnt address this problem yet.

Pixelcache · 2006-07-28 #5

Very sorry on Apple's part if you ask me. I have noticed alot of glitches with Safari. Parts of Adobe's site just do not work well or at all with Safari. It seems Apple is getting just as bad as Microsoft with somethings. I hope they will address this issue, if not down with Safari.

Firefox is the king.

blinking8s · 2006-07-28 #6

its not just safari though, each browser on mac seems to handle the rendering a different way, based on its engine.

i was always led to assume that it was caused by the reasoning of srgb, like the tutorial in flash, but some browsers strip the profile right out, some hate png, some hate jpegs...its weird and i cant seem to find any pattern.

I will post the test my friend is conducting on the different file formats in the different browsers if anyone is interested at trying to find some logical pattern. We tested opera, firefox, safari, and camino.

v1q · 2006-07-28 #7

no ie?

blinking8s · 2006-07-28 #8

haha, no...no ie, i dont even know where to go to get ie for my macbook pro...lol. It hardly ever shows up on my stats, so I pretty much ignore it, unless I have a project where lots of education mac users are hitting it or something, still runing their os 9 and nasty browser ie tookc redit for.

Justin of encytemedia.com whipped up this when we were talking about the issue

http://encytemedia.com/demo/color/test1.html

http://encytemedia.com/demo/color/test2.html

you can look at the difference in results between browsers

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	blinking8s	2006-07-24 #2
	ok, no reply here yet, but after some testing, there is a really random mixture of ways different browsers appear to render out different images (prfiles, file types and saving methods) as well as some minor variations in hex color codes. curious to know more though, I cant seem to make much of it.

	Pixelcache	2006-07-28 #3
	I've noticed the same thing myself on Safari as far as color shifts. I am designing a flash site and the background in flash is the same as the background for the html page, but Safari renders it in two different colors. This is frustrating for me because I know there will be color shifts between the PC and the Mac, and I am fine with that, but when Safari renders the same image in two different colors in the browser window it drives me nuts. Get this Firefox displays the same image in the same color for both the swf and html page. I followed the same priniciples as Adobe gave in their tutorial, and have followed those prinicples for quite some time. I say down with Safari.

	v1q	2006-07-28 #4
	yes its a commonly known problem, i see it alot around the web, only on safari tho. i dont get it why apple didnt address this problem yet.

	Pixelcache	2006-07-28 #5
	Very sorry on Apple's part if you ask me. I have noticed alot of glitches with Safari. Parts of Adobe's site just do not work well or at all with Safari. It seems Apple is getting just as bad as Microsoft with somethings. I hope they will address this issue, if not down with Safari. Firefox is the king.

	blinking8s	2006-07-28 #6
	its not just safari though, each browser on mac seems to handle the rendering a different way, based on its engine. i was always led to assume that it was caused by the reasoning of srgb, like the tutorial in flash, but some browsers strip the profile right out, some hate png, some hate jpegs...its weird and i cant seem to find any pattern. I will post the test my friend is conducting on the different file formats in the different browsers if anyone is interested at trying to find some logical pattern. We tested opera, firefox, safari, and camino.

	blinking8s	2006-07-28 #8
	haha, no...no ie, i dont even know where to go to get ie for my macbook pro...lol. It hardly ever shows up on my stats, so I pretty much ignore it, unless I have a project where lots of education mac users are hitting it or something, still runing their os 9 and nasty browser ie tookc redit for. Justin of encytemedia.com whipped up this when we were talking about the issue http://encytemedia.com/demo/color/test1.html http://encytemedia.com/demo/color/test2.html you can look at the difference in results between browsers