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Poor colour management

Hi,


I just updated my MBP to Mavericks and found some weird colour issues in the system.

Especially the red, it is over saturated and some icons become darker.

Hope Apple can fix it, because for the designers and I need the perfect colour accuracy.


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left is Mavericks, right is mountain lion



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top is mountain lion, bottom is Mavericks



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left is mountain lion and right is Mavericks



References:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1649988&highlight=saturation

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1651041

http://apple.slashdot.org/story/13/10/22/225215/os-x-109-mavericks-review?utm_so urce=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Oct 23, 2013 10:22 AM

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Posted on Oct 26, 2013 3:52 AM

Same problem here. And that's TERRIBLE for who have to work with images and graphics. Also, a big problem for me:


If you go to mine website (http://www.aformulaonehistory.com) you can see that with Safari is quite ridicolous: reds are all the same and oversaturated. That's because Safari reads the color profile of the monitor, not like Firefox, Chrome and Opera that use sRGB as color profile.


Please Apple fix this!!!!

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Oct 26, 2013 3:52 AM in response to Wolnivek

Same problem here. And that's TERRIBLE for who have to work with images and graphics. Also, a big problem for me:


If you go to mine website (http://www.aformulaonehistory.com) you can see that with Safari is quite ridicolous: reds are all the same and oversaturated. That's because Safari reads the color profile of the monitor, not like Firefox, Chrome and Opera that use sRGB as color profile.


Please Apple fix this!!!!

Nov 1, 2013 5:49 AM in response to Wolnivek

I am doing Web Design in Japan.

"Safari previous" had been discoloration, If you have to "repeat-x" of the CSS.

In "mavericks", the bugs have been fixed.

However, it is in a different color of obviously "Chrome" or "Firefox".

Red is strong

In order to design, this is very awkward.

I want information.

I think this would be very important for us Web Design.

"Apple" is would have noticed?

Or would not comment for this?

Dec 5, 2013 8:04 AM in response to Wolnivek

Did anyone find a fix yet? I'm experiencing the same issues... I think it affects icons but also photos: colors appear too contrasted and saturated, especially reds, crushed blacks, loss of detail in dark areas, and overall darker images. Both in Safari and when I browse and preview pics in Finder. For whatever reason, the color change is especially noticeable in thumbnails... This is unacceptable for me. I don't want any filters whatsoever. Anyone got a clue on how to reverse this behavior? Please Apple, fix this.

Dec 13, 2013 7:40 AM in response to Menphis2

For what it's worth, Safari 7.0 (in Mavericks) seems to be doing a better job at color management now than FireFox 26. I have a high gamut monitor and was forced to switch to FireFox after I got the monitor because the colors (especially red) were way off in Safari. If you enable the color management mode in FireFox, it does a pretty good job. At least I thought it was, until I discovered this page: http://davidjohnstone.net/blog/2013/06/be-careful-when-buying-a-wide-gamut-monit or


This has a comparison of 9 different implementations of the same color. You can test your browser and see which boxes are displaying the unnaturally vibrant red. Safari 7.0 displays all of the boxes the correct color. FireFox 26 does not.


As for the rest of the Mavericks interface, all is displaying correctly for me on my high gamut monitor. No crazy reds or oversatured colors. I am running a color managed setup with calibration. YMMV.

Apr 2, 2014 6:11 AM in response to Wolnivek

For me this has definitely the „quality“ of a bug.

For in web design there are colors clearly to define in css with #…

And it is a fact that Safari 7 changes those colors a little. One can take a screenshot and read the color in Photoshop and see the result differing from CSS value. Only browser I have ever seen who does that. Absolutely NO GO in my eyes, whatever improvement of contrast or anything this might be…

Poor colour management

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