Dave T , Jan 24, 2012; 04:21 a.m.
Back in my CS2 days I finally had my color management setup so that my photos would appear the same on the web as they did in photoshop. Furthermore I even finally had my print workflow setup properly as well. Here's my post from quite some time ago:
http://photo.net/digital-darkroom-forum/00WYrZ
I've now upgraded to CS5 and I'm having troubles getting my images to match web displayed images once again. Here's a current example:
On the web, the image seems more saturated than in photoshop, especially the blues and reds. Here are my current color settings:
If I set my "Proof Setup" to use my profiled monitor proof (profiled by Spyder 3), then the colors match, although this isn't a step that I had to take under CS2. Am I now forced to work under the monitor's profiled settings in order to get a match? Are there any other settings that I have incorrect above? In CS2 it always matched, in both Firefox and Internet Explorer, now I can't get it unless I work under the proof setup (CTRL+Y).
Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
Roger Leale 
, Jan 24, 2012; 05:49 a.m.
If you proof to your calibrated monitor's profile you are greatly increasing the possibility that other computers will mangle the colours in your image. If proofing for web display it would be wiser to proof to sRGB.
Roger
Dave T , Jan 24, 2012; 06:19 a.m.
That is ultimately the issue, even when proofed to sRGB, the image doesn't reflect what appears in the web browser, see the attached image:
Howard M , Jan 24, 2012; 06:56 a.m.
did you turn ON color management in firefox? Do a 'about:config', filter for 'gfx', set color_management_mode to '1'
Dave T , Jan 24, 2012; 07:04 a.m.
The problem still persists and appears exactly the same as above.
Roger Leale , Jan 24, 2012; 07:44 a.m.
Hi there.
From your screenshots it seems that you work with 'OFF' selected in CS5's colour management policies. I'm not expert enough to know the full results of this, but I do know that it disables CS5's ability to handle different profiles internally, most of the experts I have read recommend that this is set to "Preserve Embedded Profile".
Worth a try maybe?
Roger
Dave T , Jan 24, 2012; 07:46 a.m.
Thanks again for the tip, still have the same result though!
Roger Leale , Jan 24, 2012; 07:52 a.m.
Hi Dave,
Are you looking at this only on your machine or are you exporting the image to a web site before you view it in FF?
Roger
Dave T , Jan 24, 2012; 07:57 a.m.
Hi Roger, I've also tried saving the image to the desktop and opening it directly in Firefox via file -> open, the results are still the same.
Dave T , Jan 24, 2012; 10:04 a.m.
Ok, the problem seems to stem from the fact that the non-proofed image looks exactly the same as an image proofed in sRGB. I've tried a new sRGB ICC profile to no avail, this is getting frustrating, any other ideas? In an effort to troubleshoot, I've also opened my CS2 files and compared them to their online JPG counterparts, the same issue still exists.
