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Calbear198
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August 13, 2019
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Color shifts after exporting in JPEG 100% quality, sRGB

  • August 13, 2019
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Hi,

I am experiencing colors shits, and large ranges of color and shadow changes when I export my images at 100% quality, JPEG, sRGB. Not sure why this is happening or is this what happens when you edit in RAW and export in JPEG? From what I gather, it's not supposed to happen. Even worse, when the image gets put on an iphone for social media (I end up having to edit twice!...images are underexposed, too many shadows, colors are not bright, etc etc). I can't think of what the issue might be! I am editing in Prophoto RGB but also have edited in sRGB and adobe RGB and all of those settings do the same thing when I export. Anything you can think of, of why this might be happening?

Much appreciated!

Thank you!

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Jao vdLCommunity Expert
Community Expert
August 15, 2019

It seems you are using the built-in screen of a MacBook Air. For those displays you absolutely have to turn off night shift and TrueTone (in the monitor preferences). Those settings will shift the display to warmer tones when you're inside and in the evening. You should do the same on your iPhone. Also, the older mac book airs had low quality screens that will strongly shift with angle and with small color gamut. They are great little light weight laptops for travel but not that good for color fidelity even if you calibrate them.

dj_paige
dj_paige
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August 13, 2019

Calbear198  wrote

I am editing in Prophoto RGB but also have edited in sRGB and adobe RGB and all of those settings do the same thing when I export. Anything you can think of, of why this might be happening?

Is this a Lightroom question?

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Calbear198Author
Participant
August 14, 2019

yes, lightroom classic

Akash Sharma
Akash Sharma
Legend
August 13, 2019

Hi Calbear198,

That shouldn't be happening, as Lightroom is showing a shift in the image color after the image is exported. Let us help make this right.

Please provide us some more information.

  • Which exact version of Lightroom Classic are you using and on which operating system?
  • How are the colors changing? Please post screenshots.
  • Exactly what different program are you using to view the exported images?
  • What is the make and model of your monitor? Is it calibrated using a calibration tool? See How to manage color in Lightroom Classic ​

Thanks,

Akash

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Calbear198Author
Participant
August 14, 2019

may or may not be able to tell from this, but hopefully you can. The one on the computer is more white/blue...overall much better picture. When exported to iphone, it's really yellow, very dull, and overall looks very sickly. This happens with every pic. The change is pretty dramatic perhaps even if you can't tell in this image.

I have calibrated my monitor with spyder x pro. using mac air 2015.

Using the latest version of LIghtroom Classic.

dj_paige
dj_paige
Legend
August 14, 2019

Calbear198  wrote

may or may not be able to tell from this, but hopefully you can. The one on the computer is more white/blue...overall much better picture. When exported to iphone, it's really yellow, very dull, and overall looks very sickly. This happens with every pic. The change is pretty dramatic perhaps even if you can't tell in this image.

I have calibrated my monitor with spyder x pro. using mac air 2015.

Using the latest version of LIghtroom Classic.

Either your monitor is not properly calibrated, or your cell phone is not properly calibrated (or both)

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