Web views of pictures having various profiles

Tagged with AdobeRGB (1998) profile	Tagged with sRGB profile	No profile - was AdobeRGB but profile stripped out	No profile - was sRGB but profile stripped out

Because many web browsers aren't color managed and they assume pictures to be in the sRGB color space, pictures tagged with the sRGB profile (or pictures with no profile that were originally sRGB) look best. Safari is a partially color-managed web browser, and should reproduce the left two pictures very similarly. Windows' forthcoming Internet Explorer 9 will have the option to color manage too.

Remember that color managed applications like Photoshop or desktop publishing programs like Quark or InDesign can take advantage of higher-gamut color spaces like AdobeRGB (1998) to produce better results than sRGB, especially for print applications. For Print uses, keep using AdobeRGB.

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Production notes:
The left picture is the Photodisk picture resized down to fit the web page, and saved as a JPG file saving the original AdobeRGB profile tag.

The second from left picture was changed to sRGB using Photoshop's Edit>Convert to Profile command, and resaved with the sRGB tag intact.

The third picture, originally tagged with the AdobeRGB(1998) profile, was saved using Photoshop's File>Save for Web command, and configured to omit the ICC profile tag in the file. This process strips out color tags, but keeps the color numbers.

The right-most picture, originally tagged with the sRGB profile, was created using Photoshop's File>Save for Web command, and configured to omit the ICC profile tag in the file. This process strips out color tags, but keeps the color numbers.