I've been getting a little more serious with the photoshopping as of late, and as I put most of my photos on the web, the issue of colour management eventually came up. In short, you spend hours getting things to look just right in photoshop only to see the browser mangle the colours for you. The good news is that Firefox 3 supports colour management and promises to respect embedded colour profiles. The bad news is a) it's not enabled by default, and b) I can't seem to get it to work anyway. So for the time being I will just convert my web photos to sRGB and leave it at that.
For web publishing, and anything that is meant to be viewed on screen, sRGB is of course _the_ colour space to use. But even if you get the colour space right, most monitors are not even calibrated. Mostly too blue, too bright (apparently, that sells better). So, people are not seeing your pictures how you've intended anyway. Of course, I'm assuming _your_ monitor is correctly calibrated =)
Good point. My monitor is calibrated so that my pictures look good AND I can spend hours reading PDFs under incandescent lighting. However, assuming* that people who care about my photos don't set their colour temperature to 9300K, uploading as sRGB at least means that they'll get to see more saturated colours.
*I don't know if that's a good assumption. Hi mom!
If you're anything near serious about colour space correctness, you of course need some hardware calibration gizmo. Without it, you're really just guessing. If you stop by, you can borrow mine for a sec =) I have a huey, but there are others that perhaps perform better (and are a little more expensive).
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