On 03/03/2010 10:08 AM, Jay Smith wrote: > On 03/03/2010 09:22 AM, Jason Simanek wrote: >> Hello, >> > <snip> >> For web designers it is essential to have the option to either include >> or exclude color profiles on images that are created with Gimp. It would >> be great to have a checkbox on the save/export dialog or the Save for >> Web plugin dialog that would allow you to exclude the color profile. > <snip> > > Please excuse this ignorant question, but.... > > Could someone please explain or supply a link/reference that gives more > background to the statement "For web designers it is essential to have > the option to either include or exclude color profiles on images...". > > I am sure I am missing something important. Why would you specifically > want a color profile to NOT be present ... specifically for web-use images? > > Thank you. > > Jay I have answered my own question, but it took about half hour of searching to find this. Here is a great reference site exactly on this subject.... http://www.gballard.net/psd/go_live_page_profile/embeddedJPEGprofiles.html For people like me, I recommend reading it thoroughly AND following all his links. It does go on a bit, but there are many pearls in it. Too bad he does not seem to talk about Gimp, but the content is still great. Jay _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
