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Price: Free download from PhotoShelter
This is the fourth giveaway of a wallpaper, just to say thanks to our readers.
I took this shot at a local nursery, where many bees were humming around. The image was taken with a Canon Digital Rebel.
© 2006, Veit Irtenkauf
Simply right-click and Save As… on a Mac or PC. Then drag it into iPhoto or the image program of your choice, sync it with your iPhone, view it on your iPhone in the Photos app, tap the screen in the lower right and tap “Use as Wallpaper”.
Enjoy!
Sometimes, we don’t pay attention. Unfortunately, it happened to me with my wallpaper of the Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel. In this case, I did not pay attention to the color space I was working in.
What did the wallpaper look like to you? I bet it was more like what you see on the right:
Safari supports color management, so the image on the left looked the way I intended. You can turn on color management in Firefox. IE, Chrome and Opera do not support color management, thus the image on the right looked washed out, like in the screenshot I took in Internet Explorer
What happened? In short, it’s a matter of color management, or the lack thereof in many browsers. When you shoot images with your iPhone, it records them in the sRGB color space (the most popular color space for consumer devices), which is a well-defined way of telling various computing devices how to render colors. When you transfer your image to your PC, if any software on your PC does not support color management, the Operating System typically renders the image in the sRGB color space, thus it should look pretty similar to our original iPhone photo. Most of Apple’s software supports color management (iPhoto does and so does Safari), so it’s less of a problem there.
My problem was that I edited the wallpaper in the ProPhoto RGB color space, which is a color space used often when editing in 16 bit color in Photoshop. Before converting to JPG, I forgot to convert the color space to sRGB. Mea Culpa!
Of course, it would have been less of a problem for you, if browsers supported color management. Unfortunately, of the major browsers, only Safari supports it out of the box. You can turn it on in Firefox (about:config, then search for gfx.color_management.mode and set it to 1) and I highly recommend you do so. Internet Explorer, Opera and Chrome do not seem to support color management at this time.
For more details on color management, see Wikipedia. Also, there is a good article on how this problem rears its ugly head in your browser, especially on wide-screen LCDs.
Of course, I replaced the wallpaper in question – the correct wallpaper is also below:
© Veit Irtenkauf
My apologies to our readers.
Veit
This is the third giveaway of a wallpaper, just to say thanks to our readers.
This wallpaper is of a Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel, which are very common in the Sierra Nevada. This little bugger sat there just as the sun went down, so I slowly inched closer and closer while snapping away. This shot was actually taken with a Canon G3.
© Veit Irtenkauf
Simply right-click and Save As… on a Mac or PC. Then drag it into iPhoto or the image program of your choice, sync it with your iPhone, view it on your iPhone in the Photos app, tap the screen in the lower right and tap “Use as Wallpaper”.
Enjoy!
