The long and short: Mac users with Safari enjoy color management and expanded gamut already enabled. Firefox 3 users must enable it, though the browser is capable of it. IE, Opera, and Chrome lack the ability to show expanded color gamut.

Sometime in January, I was very disappointed that many shots I had posted on dA looked nothing like what I knew I had uploaded; I would view them on my system and they looked vibrant and fine, I would view them on my dA account and they seemed lifeless and dull. After long searching and much reading about colorspace usage, I found this information( I thought it might be helpful to share with other dA members). This is useful to anyone, but especially those viewing or posting images with Adobe RGB colorspace. If you happen to use Firefox 3, you may want to check this out: [link]
The end result, I now see on my dA account exactly the file which I saw on my computer before I posted it. Hopefully this will improve when I replace my monitor later this year with an Adobe RGB capable model. (see below).

I must also mention that while this does allow your browser to actually show the color values from Adobe RGB, it is quite another story as to whether your monitor can show them or not. My Samsung T240 only has a color Gamut of 82%, therefore some color values are going to be approximated and rendered as a value within the sRGB colorspace. What those colors are, will be completely dependent upon our individual monitors, and their technical characteristics (where in the gamut, the display parameters fall).

Feel free to ask any questions, I will help if I can.

Also for those interested, here is a useful link for Color Management in CS, very helpful for newcomers to Photoshop: [link]


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