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All images are not equal

8th February, 2010 - Posted by admin - No Comments

When designing the technology on our website for accepting image uploads, it was clear we’d have to handle images from many contributors  who were submitting JPEGs with embedded color profiles.  Embedded profiles are great news as they allow you to experiment with the image by removing the profile and applying a different one and contrast the before/after effect.

These days many images are used on the web and many browsers do not honor embedded color profile (yes yes… Safari does I know, I know..).  But even if all browsers did honor the color profile, embedding the thing into every thumbnail results in bloated image sizes.  So what to do?

Throw it away like 123rf?

123rf jpg of Pasta Sauce by Ed Bock

And Dreamstime?

Dreamstime jpg of Ed Bock's Pasta Sauce

Or how about (and I know this sounds crazy) we show the image as the photographer intended..

vivozoom's color corrected version as the Photographer intended

The colors are vibrant, the ingredients look appetizing rather than anaemic.  Download the high-resolution from vivozoom and you will have access to the color profile to swap out or modify as you please.  Download the web resolution from vivozoom and you get the real deal.  Not a washed out version.

If you purchase web-resolution images, make sure you buy from a business that knows images… vivozoom.   We convert color profiles on all images that are destined for web display to sRGB in the working space.

All images are not equal.