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CandyStripes05
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i just recently did a quick update on my portfolio ( i want to re-haul it sometime down the road ) but for now i just added new images of a project i just complete

and it looks terrible (colour wise) in firefox, and i dont recall noticing this before. i have firefox 8.0 running right now and love it vs. say explorer... but i opened my portfolio in both, and explorer has the more accurate colour going on

i also noticed windows photo viewer messes up the colours, and i now use quicktime pictureviewer instead

so i was wondering if anyone has came across this before? or does anyone know of or have a favorite browser they use when it comes down to art?

i have windows 7 64bit if maybe that has a contributing factor to this problem
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  • glynnsmith
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    glynnsmith polycounter lvl 17
    Since I calibrated my monitors with a colorimeter, Windows photo viewer doesn't display my colour profile properly, which forced me to use XnView to view images.

    Perhaps you've got something similar going on?
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  • [HP]
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    [HP] polycounter lvl 13
    From personal experience, just stay the fuck away from those monitor calibrators. What a scam, those things never worked.
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  • CandyStripes05
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    CandyStripes05 polycounter lvl 9
    never used a colourimeter, i have dual screens both the same monitor, they display slightly different results but nothing as harsh as firefox and explorer are doing right now
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  • Farfarer
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    Farfarer
    Aside from layout differences, FF8 and IE8 look identical to me (colour-wise).

    Opera11 appears to display the images slightly darker, but it's not a noticeable difference unless you're looking for it.
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  • glynnsmith
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    glynnsmith polycounter lvl 17
    Helder, I swear by mine. Makes all the difference and makes both my monitors look identical.

    I know some of the cheaper ones are a bit shit. Maybe you've had bad luck with them, but I wouldn't swap mine for anything.
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  • Michael Knubben
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    Firefox has colour profiles built in since a few versions, although I forget if they now enable it by default or not. Google it, and tell us if disabling (or enabling?) fixed it.
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  • CandyStripes05
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    CandyStripes05 polycounter lvl 9
    thanks MightyPea, i check on a different computer and it look proper (running an old version of firefox) so i installed an older version on my comp and still had the bad results. then i saw your post about colour management, mine was defaulted at disabled - switched it and now it looks way better : )

    its slightly more faded now then IE, before it was way darker. but definitely a massive improvement - thanks everyone : )
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