New SLR user, problem with color

Safari is color managed, but only the recent Firefox is. If the PC on which they're being viewed hasn't been display calibrated, that could also account for such issues.

have you changed the colour profile on the camera from sRGB to Adobe RGB?

please do this it's the first thing you should do on a DSLR, it might help. The Adobe RGB gives much nicer, richer colours imho

I'm not sure but i know a place that does:

http://photography-on-the.net/forum

it's the Canon users forum and they know loads (too much in fact) about canon cameras. They'll help you out.

fluidedge said:

have you changed the colour profile on the camera from sRGB to Adobe RGB?

please do this it's the first thing you should do on a DSLR, it might help. The Adobe RGB gives much nicer, richer colours imho

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He said he is shooting RAW. If true the above does not apply. An image is not yet in any color space until it is converted from raw to jpg, or tiff. If he is using some third party software to do the raw-->jpg converson then he has to tell that software what color space to use.

So? What color space are your JPG files in? non color manged displays are mostly built to assume all files are in sRGB. So if your jpg files are in sRGB the dumb Windows browsers will be making the correct guess. But if your files are in Adobe RGB or any space other then sRGB then the dumb browser is guessing wrong. Bottom line is that anything you put on the web had best be in sRGB.

What you your self use for your own work can be anything. Use Adobe RGB if you like. It has a wider range. Of course wider range means bigger jumps between steps. So you decide. I use raw as my archive format mostly so I don't have to decide. But I do use PS CS3 to edit some images. My workspace is set to aRGB but I convert when I export from .psd to .jpg All the jpg files I send to the web, email or to a printer are sRGB

I bow to your superior knowledge! Interesting comments.

killmoms said:

Since iPhoto doesn't yet recognize the XS's RAW files I have to import them through Kodak's software.

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Are you sure you have all the right updates installed? I don't see why iPhoto would recognize the XSi's RAW files, but not those from the XS.

By default firefox does not turn colour profiles on.

To check or put it on read this blog it tells you how. I had this problem and it was a real pain!

http://joi.ito.com/weblog/2008/06/21/firefox-3-and-c.html

bertpalmer said:

By default firefox does not turn colour profiles on.
To check or put it on read this blog it tells you how......

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You are correct. But the problem is that you'd have to get every Firefox user to turn on color profiles. That would be hard. When you put your files on the web it's best to just assume that people will be looking at them without color management enabled. Also 99% of the screens out there are un-calibrated. So it's best to just make the file so they will look good on these un-mangaged screens. The best you can do is convert whatever you publish to sRGB from whatever you like to use yourself.