Maybe someone out there can help me, or at the very least sympathize. For all that I know about computers and the internet, I lack vital knowledge in how to best represent my images for print and electronic display. I know basics, like RGB for web and CMYK for print, but I’m a little baffled as how the color can be so different on two browers. It’s subtle with most of my art, but whenever I use a bright color, like hot pink/bright magenta, it becomes an issue. The actual print falls between the two. Firefox tends to dull it a bit, while safari saturates way too intensely (although my screencap of Safari looks almost accurate on Firefox, ha). Is there a way to find a happy medium? A secret program or plugin I’m not hip to? I guess this is kind of rhetorical at this point. I suppose in the future I need to whine on forums for help and get trolled by its members for being a “n00b.” Poot.
-Megan
Edit: More images and a slightly sad realization (click on the links to see them larger):
and this one:
Okay, so Safari actually represents the colors to the most accuracy. What I realized was that I apparently save it that bright to work around Firefox’s color changing ways. It comes somewhat close, the last image shows the photograph of the print and I was right, it does fall between the two versions. Anyway, I got some reccommendations on how to work with this:
http://www.viget.com/inspire/the-mysterious-save-for-web-color-shift/
I’m sure there’s other sites, but basically, I need to be more aware of my color adjusting and image exporting. Dur. I’ll probably get to fixing the worst batch of images over christmas break.
