Inconsistent colour
It is quite normal to put a border around an image and choose one that will show off images to their best effect. Border colour is quite important when trying to convey subtleties of gradation in tone and colour. Quite often the border around the image is supposed to merge with the background page colour. HA! HA! some hope even though the same colour has been chosen.
- Safari, opera and some other browsers do not work in the same way as explorer or firefox. This may lead to the border around images looking different to the background page instead of merging with it. Fortunately the images themselves are not degraded.
- Page colours in browsers are defined by png and photographers usually put their images as jpeg's. In addition to make their images look much the same on any system they put colour space information usually sRGB.
- Browsers like explorer and firefox will read the information and adjust the background page and image information in exactly the same way in particular the gamma (meaning contrast and brightness) correction.
- Unfortunately the page information in some versions of some browsers is handled differently to the image information. This may result in one gamma correction for the page and another for the overlaying image. Sometimes they are different and sometimes the same, it will depend on the configuration of the machine viewing the website, and I guess the exact hardware and how it is configured (eg gamma 1.8, 2.0, 2.2 etc.)
- We are currently looking for a solution which does not compromise the look of this site. If you have suggestions which we have not thought of or are experiencing similar problems then please e-mail me at the address on the left.
Poor resolution of images.
As a photographer I take a lot of care to present images in the best possible way. Rather than scale to fit, we tend to scale by an exact factor to retain quality and resolution and use high quality jpeg's. However some servers and maybe browsers may work differently
- They will reduce resolution of the image to reduce loading time,which then loses the careful sharpening applied by the photographer.
- Similarly they will take our high level jpeg images of 8,9 or 10 and lower them to a lower level of 4,5 or 6 with correspondingly poorer rendering. This makes gradual changes in tone and colour now appear blocky or abrupt.
- Obviously I thought this would become less of a problem with time as more people logged on to broadband but with far more handheld devices now entering the market place this may be premature of me.
- Currently I am aware that AOL has a problem in this way, but it can usually be resolved by setting a different configuration within AOL, or use a different browser like firefox.
If you would like to communicate or link to this site because you have similar problems and would like to know more please contact me via my email address terry@t2landscapes.co.uk