Something is puzzling me - why does this image appear different in every browser?
Image in IE9 (and Windows Photo Viewer):
Image in Firefox (and Photoshop):
Image in Chrome (and Irfanview):
What is going on in their decoding processes of the JPEG to make the eventual output so different?
(View it in IE, Firefox, Chrome, etc. to see what I mean.)
JPEG can be encoded in RGB or CMYK. These nicities usually occur when it's CMYK. Open the file in an image editing program and save it as RGB JPEG, and salute the CMYK printers, which will now have the different results you previously had in the browser.
I'm only guessing.
If the image was created to show these differences perhaps it's not a normal image which was encoded, but an invalid one where the calculated colors are outside of the 0 to 255 range and different decoders handle these differently.
If you change the color profile of that particular image from CMYK to sRGB in Photoshop, for instance, it will appear more or less equally in all browsers.
