First post -- Firefox image display issues

[MR]

Top post - please forgive.

Thank you, Ralf, for the best, most enjoyable and most complete post I've
read here in a long time. With no disrespect to any others here, of course.

I loved the piece at the end. Fabulous wrap-up.

With many thanks to all here,

Mark
44+ years Software Engineer


On Sun, May 12, 2024, 09:00 Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users <
ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
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