Browser not displaying colour correctly

[redhed17]

Hello, I use Firefox as my browser, and I was looking at one of the images I have posted on 500px. I then opened Internet Explorer to see what site looked like when I was logged out, rather than logging out and back in again. The image suddenly looked more saturated in IE.

The image was saved with the sRGB colourspace, and the FF image looks exactly the same as it looks like in Adobe Bridge.

I've heard of images looking duller if they were saved in the Adobe RGB colourspace and then viewed in a browser that can't display the Adobe RBG colourspace, but I've never heard of a browser making a sRGB image look more saturated.

Anyway, here's the FF and IE images cropped together. The FF image is on the left.

Any ideas? :shrug:

 

[redhed17]

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Does no one know what has happened with my images looking different, or experienced the same thing? :shrug:

 

[POAH]

IE does not colour manage images

 

[Musicman]

IE does not colour manage images

That used to be true about IE8 and earlier (and a long-standing gripe) but IE9 does.

However

http://gearoracle.com/guides/web-browser-color-management-guide/

Microsoft Internet Explorer


Internet Explorer 9, released on March 15th 2011, is the first version to support color management. Like webKit-based browsers, untagged images and page elements are assumed to be on the full monitor gamut. All previous Internet Explorer versions aren’t color managed.

There's a key flaw in IE9 color management implementation: Unlike Firefox and Safari, the monitor profile is ignored during the color conversion. Internet Explorer 9 assumes your display is sRGB and ignores any color profile associated with it. This means that IE9 cannot be trusted for any critical color evaluation and wide gamut displays will still show overly saturated images. More information at this Luminous Landscape forum topic and also this thread at Adobe.com.

Which answers the OP's question