[edit: though, I'm perplexed as to why the colours render slightly differently in Firefox and in iPhoto. They look slightly washed out here. Maybe iPhoto has a different gamma setting? How un-mac, if that's so.]
The entire workflow (camera to mac to iphoto to screen and/or printer) is supposed to be completely color synchronized (ColorSync) so the output is as faithful as possible under the circumstances, given that the camera, the screen and the printer share only a tiny part of the color spectrum. I'm willing to bet that the browsers do not share that point of view, given that their objective in life is to try to bring everything down to a common denominator and make it possible to vaguely share stuff thru the web.
One thing you can check is System Preferences>Displays>Color and see what profile you are using. You can also choose Calibrate from there and see what is different about the screen -- you can even choose the gamma (1.8 is standard for Macs, 2.2 for TV/PCs) and choose the white point. I think it's possible to make the system adopt the same profile that browsers use, but in general I've had more luck printing stuff that is very much like the screen and the original picture by just using the mac standard.
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Date: Tuesday, 30 May 2006 04:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Tuesday, 30 May 2006 05:14 pm (UTC)It is a good pic of you two, though.
If you like, I could show you the one with similar composition which I didn't post, where you're kind of making a big grimmace at your screen.
"I hate that fucking wall!"
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Date: Tuesday, 30 May 2006 05:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Tuesday, 30 May 2006 07:02 pm (UTC)It's funny to me that since this mac is a new OS for me, my workflow is less obvious to /not/ send a photo somewhere public, than to do so. :)
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Date: Tuesday, 30 May 2006 07:04 pm (UTC)Heh. Nice picture.
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Date: Tuesday, 30 May 2006 05:10 pm (UTC)I'm surprised the lighting worked as well as it did, to be honest.
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Date: Wednesday, 31 May 2006 01:43 am (UTC)One thing you can check is System Preferences>Displays>Color and see what profile you are using. You can also choose Calibrate from there and see what is different about the screen -- you can even choose the gamma (1.8 is standard for Macs, 2.2 for TV/PCs) and choose the white point. I think it's possible to make the system adopt the same profile that browsers use, but in general I've had more luck printing stuff that is very much like the screen and the original picture by just using the mac standard.