First post -- Firefox image display issues

[Ralf Mardorf]

Basically, colour profiles cannot be adapted to other colour profiles.
One way or another, something must always be lost/adulterated.Basically,
colour profiles cannot be adapted to other colour profiles. One way or
another, something must always be lost/adulterated.

Who uses a web browser with a calibrated professional display? The
desktop work profile of my display is set so that reading wiki articles
and the like is comfortable and it automatically adapts to the lighting
conditions in the room. When I edit photos, I do this on an iPadPro and
check the images on the iPadPro with the display dimmed and not dimmed
and I also do a cross-check with my Linux desktop PC EIZO sRGB display
with both the aforementioned working profile and the DICOM profile, a
profile that is roughly intended to ensure that no breakage is
overlooked when viewing X-ray images. As a rule, I don't use any other
display profiles or additional displays, let alone a calibrated profile
and, above all, I only use the camera's sRGB profile when taking photos.
If you have photo prints made in photo labs for mere mortals, you have
to make sure that they offer an option to deactivate automatic image
correction, otherwise the image will be poorly post-processed
automatically. Anyone who works professionally for magazines should know
that an average of all the images printed in the magazine is calculated
for the print and that the print distorts all the images so that the
overall image of the magazine is consistent in the end.

Does music on the car radio sound like it does on the stereo system or
like it does in a disco? No, it doesn't. Are there sound profiles? No,
there are not, because they would make no sense at all.

Colour profiles make sense within narrow limits, in exceptions. The
digital colour space is limited by the number of bits, so you can say
that you want more variations for green tones, for example, but at the
expense of fewer variations for other colours. Of course, selecting such
a profile makes no sense if the images are edited or viewed on an sRGB
display.

If you mix music, you try to do it in such a way that you can listen to
it quietly in the kitchen, loudly in the disco on expensive and cheap
speakers, with the engine running in the car and with standing bass
waves in the small living room. Nobody mixes music so that it sounds
perfect down to the smallest detail in a professional recording studio,
because if they did, it would sound totally rubbish where it is normally
heard.

Anyone who presents photos on the Internet must know that they are
viewed on cheap and expensive sRGB displays and that the monitors are
all of different brightness and reproduce colours differently.

With a few exceptions, colour profiles don't help at all, on the
contrary, they usually make things much worse.

However, the picture quality will be significantly improved if you buy
my spiritually cleaned HDMI cables and display power cords! I only
charge 150,- € per cm of spiritually cleaned cable, this is only the
reimbursement of my expenses, for toad spit, unicorn glitter and the
like.