[andybarton]

Apologies for posting here, but I find that most images posted on the web look better when opened in Photoshop than they do when viewed through a browser.

The way I understand it, browsers are not "colour aware" and take no notice of profiles, as Photoshop does.

That said, if you assign a sRGB profile to an image posted on the web, you will get just a little closer to the image you see in PS.

The software used to display the image (i.e. this site, my site or any other site) makes no difference to the way the image looks on screen.

If someone (Adobe?) were to write or contribute a plug-in for a web-browser that did allow for profile information to be used to show the image as seen in PS, they would make an even bigger fortune than they have now. I am surprised that this hasn't been done already, to be honest.

I only have the freebie MS Picture Editor thing on this PC in the office. That is obviously as un-aware of profiles and true colours as Internet Explorer, as your download image looks identical here whether viewed on the web or from the downloaded copy.