Comments on: Re-purposing photos for e-mail and web display http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2005%2F06%2F09%2Fre-purposing-photos-for-e-mail-and-web-display%2F%23comment-&seed_title=Re-purposing+photos+for+e-mail+and+web+display bioneural.net is for stuff worth sharing: commentary by Bruce McKenzie. Major topics covered are gadgets, informatics, Internet, Mac, mobile, musings, New Zealand, photography, Project Koru, quicklinks, rant, rave, travel and Windows Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:59:08 +0000 By: Bruce http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2005%2F06%2F09%2Fre-purposing-photos-for-e-mail-and-web-display%2F%23comment-75644&seed_title=Re-purposing+photos+for+e-mail+and+web+display#comment-75644 Bruce Tue, 03 Jul 2007 23:56:06 +0000 http://www.bioneural.net/2005/06/09/re-purposing-photos-for-e-mail-and-web-display/#comment-75644 <p>After an e-mail exchange with Steve we determined that he was using the <a href="http://www.geeksrus.com/software/betterhtmlexport/">BetterHTMLExport</a> plug-in for iPhoto and thus was getting images with an sRGB profile attached i.e. the profile was appropriately converted to sRGB from the source profile. Bear in mind that if you use iPhoto's default file export option (i.e. no third-party plug-in) then iPhoto will not do colour profile conversion; the attached profile will be the same in both the exported and the source image.</p> After an e-mail exchange with Steve we determined that he was using the BetterHTMLExport plug-in for iPhoto and thus was getting images with an sRGB profile attached i.e. the profile was appropriately converted to sRGB from the source profile. Bear in mind that if you use iPhoto's default file export option (i.e. no third-party plug-in) then iPhoto will not do colour profile conversion; the attached profile will be the same in both the exported and the source image.

]]> By: Bruce http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2005%2F06%2F09%2Fre-purposing-photos-for-e-mail-and-web-display%2F%23comment-75643&seed_title=Re-purposing+photos+for+e-mail+and+web+display#comment-75643 Bruce Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:12:30 +0000 http://www.bioneural.net/2005/06/09/re-purposing-photos-for-e-mail-and-web-display/#comment-75643 <p>Thanks Steve. I tried this using iPhoto 6.0.6:</p> <p>Exported to scale at 450 x 225px, which resulted in a file 449 x 224px image with the Adobe RGB (1998) profile (same as source) at 52KB. My monitor was set to use a Cinema HD Calibrated display profile.</p> <p>I next set my monitor to sRGB and re-did the export. As expected this had no effect on the profile of the image: the file created was exactly the same, including the Adobe RGB (1998) profile.</p> <p>For comparison, I resized in CS3 and exported using the "JPEG High" preset with ICC Profile checked via the "Save for Web & Devices" option, producing a 450 x 225px image (correct) with an sRGB profile and 28KB file size (or 24KB with no attached profile).</p> <p>So iPhoto exported an image at the wrong dimensions, with the wrong profile, and at a larger file size.</p> Thanks Steve. I tried this using iPhoto 6.0.6:

Exported to scale at 450 x 225px, which resulted in a file 449 x 224px image with the Adobe RGB (1998) profile (same as source) at 52KB. My monitor was set to use a Cinema HD Calibrated display profile.

I next set my monitor to sRGB and re-did the export. As expected this had no effect on the profile of the image: the file created was exactly the same, including the Adobe RGB (1998) profile.

For comparison, I resized in CS3 and exported using the "JPEG High" preset with ICC Profile checked via the "Save for Web & Devices" option, producing a 450 x 225px image (correct) with an sRGB profile and 28KB file size (or 24KB with no attached profile).

So iPhoto exported an image at the wrong dimensions, with the wrong profile, and at a larger file size.

]]> By: steve http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2005%2F06%2F09%2Fre-purposing-photos-for-e-mail-and-web-display%2F%23comment-75642&seed_title=Re-purposing+photos+for+e-mail+and+web+display#comment-75642 steve Tue, 03 Jul 2007 18:16:44 +0000 http://www.bioneural.net/2005/06/09/re-purposing-photos-for-e-mail-and-web-display/#comment-75642 <p>iphoto will convert and resize anything other than greyscale or cmyk colourspaces for you, if you trick it to... simply activate the sRGB display profile in the monitor control panel, export your pics from iphoto, then return your monitor back to it's original (presumably calibrated) display profile.</p> iphoto will convert and resize anything other than greyscale or cmyk colourspaces for you, if you
trick it to... simply activate the sRGB display profile in the monitor control panel, export your pics from iphoto, then return your monitor back to it's original (presumably calibrated) display profile.

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