Uploading Images to Picasa - they appear lighter
When I upload images from Aperture to Picasa the images on Picasa appear to be somewhat lighter than the original in Aperture. The photos on Picasa appear to be overexpoxed by about 0.5 EV.
I save my images in Aperture in RAW format. Can the conversion from RAW to JPG by Picasa be the issue?
iMac Mac OS X (10.4.10) Apeture images are in RAW format
Do the images look the same in Firefox/Camino and Safari? Except for Safari (and its close relatives Omniweb and Shiira) no other current browser on any operating system is color-managed.
In non-color-managed applications photos will look different from computer to computer. Your best bet is to present the photos in a format that is close to the average calibration of monitors. sRGB is considered to be that for Windows PCs, for Mac systems using default factory settings you would need to use a variation of sRGB that uses a gamma of 1.8 (not sure if such a variation even exists) or calibrate the monitor using a gamma of 2.2. Or best use Safari which by virtue of being color-managed takes care of these differences.
To get really consistent results you should calibrate and profile your monitor using a hardware calibration device.
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