[Gllug] JPEG, GIMP, Macs & colours

[Richard Jones]

On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 11:57:18PM +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 23:54 +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> > This is the original photo, exported from iPhoto on a Mac:
> > 
> > http://www.annexia.org/tmp/saury-right.jpg
> > 
> > I loaded it into GIMP, switched it left<->right and saved it:
> > 
> > http://www.annexia.org/tmp/saury-left.jpg
> > 
> > The colour balance is completely different.  Can someone clue me in as
> > to what part of the JPEG standard / GIMP / Macs / browsers is causing
> > this?
> 
> 
> Looks the same to me. Mac displays have a different gamma from PCs

Hmmm - now interestingly they only look different on the Mac.

On a Linux machine the colour balance between the two is the same ...

Rich.

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