Color profiles in ImageKind

Turns out that I am wrong. They do support arbitrary color spaces! Now up to see whether they will automatically convert to sRGB for web display. My guess is yes.
Update, big surprise! It does not convert the preview images to sRGB. This means desaturated colors in the preview image if you are not using a color-managed browser as 95% of the web-using public is! A little unfortunate.

Imagekind observations

Just started peddling prints over at ImageKind. My first impressions are pretty good. The focus on art and presentation is really nice. The selection of papers, canvases, mattes, and framing is quite extraordinary. This being a new site, there are some annoyances however. I. signing up does not work in Safari, the best browser out there, but the site does not warn you about this. Fortunately, my second choice, Firefox, works fine. Firefox, however, does not do color correction of images on web pages. II.Images on the ImageKind webpages are in untagged color space, even if you upload a tagged image. This is bad form (see here for an example why this important. Luckily, when you click on an image, the resulting large preview is in a tagged color space. This is good, however, it causes color shifts between the small framed preview and the larger image. Flickr, for example, keeps the color space tag intact in their scaled images, assuring correct color in smart browsers. This is a little disappointing for a fine art oriented website. It is details like that that make me love flickr. III. They do not seem to support wider color spaces than sRGB, at least I cannot find any evidence of it. Now I could be wrong, but if true, this is strange for a website that sells prints from fine art, which very generally falls outside of the very limited sRGB gamut! IV. When uploading images, the website ignores all the exif tags, so all the keywords you assign in advance are ignored, just like the title tag. This causes a LOT of extra work tagging and describing your images. Again, flickr gets this right. Now, I really appreciate the service, but they need to address the pesky little details.

Imagekind

I found this very promising website that delivers the awesome service of selling prints from my digital files. They print on an amazing variety of papers and will even frame the prints for you. I am trying out their service with a small gallery of images to start. Please check it out over here. And buy a few prints while you're at it ;).