Sorry for the distraction, but Capture One just released an upgrade. Here's one of the last files regenerated with the new release. Could someone with a browser that sees the previous file wrong tell me if anything has changed?
L1010040 2 by
scott kirkpatrick, on Flickr
thanks,
scott
Edit: I replaced the second try with a third, using sRGB output -- previously my JPEGs were in Adobe RGB.
The ones that appear washed out in Firefox on my system show this when I look at them with EXIFtool:
ProfileCreator: POne
ProfileDescription: GenericDngFile-Neutral
ProfileCopyright: Copyright (c) 2005-2007 Phase One A/S. All rights reserved.
ProfileCMMType:
ProfileClass: Input Device Profile
ProfileConnectionSpace: Lab
ProfileDateTime: 2007:08:10 18:51:51
The ones that render properly in Firefox on my system show this when I look at them with EXIFtool:
ProfileCreator: HP
ProfileDescription: sRGB IEC61966-2.1
ProfileCopyright: Copyright (c) 1998 Hewlett-Packard Company
ProfileCMMType: Lino
ProfileClass: Display Device Profile
ProfileConnectionSpace: XYZ
ProfileDateTime: 1998:02:09 06:49:00
Both render properly in Safari (on OS X or iOS devices, likely Windows too but I don't have a Windows system to check against) because Safari is color-managed and honors the profiles. The same is true of Chrome, I believe, although I never run Chrome. Firefox does not color-manage and honor profiles by default.
You should always output image files you intend to post to the web with sRGB color calibration profile, not Adobe RGB (1998) or any other.
G