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July 17, 2023
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Edited photos look completely different after I export them from my computer to my phone

  • July 17, 2023
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I've been editing on Lightroom mobile for a while and decided to step it up and use Lightroom Classic. After an hour or so of editing, I transferred the photos over to my iPhone and noticed that the exposure and colors were decreased by a lot. I've tried to look into the issue and verified that I have the correct photo export setting set at JPEG with sRGB color space. After a long time of looking online, the only other thing I could find is how displays on PCs look different compared to iPhones. If that's the case, why would I have even gotten Lightroom Classic vs just editing on my phone?

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Keith Reeder
Keith Reeder
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July 17, 2023

"If that's the case, why would I have even gotten Lightroom Classic vs just editing on my phone?"

 

If you really are only viewing on your  phone - no point whatsoever, really.

 

Lr is intended for (I'm not being judgemental) more serious applications than generating something that looks OK on a phone. As D Fosse points out, phones aren't meaningfully colour-managed, and really aren't intended to be definitive image-viewing devices. 

 

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/why-dosent-my-edited-photos-look-the-same-on-my-phone-as-they-did-on-my-computer/td-p/10835303

 

https://community.adobe.com/t5/color-management-discussions/photos-look-different-on-my-phone-compared-to-photos-on-the-computer/td-p/10051780

D Fosse
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D FosseCommunity Expert
Community Expert
July 17, 2023

Short answer: this is why color management was invented.

 

There is absolutely no reason to trust your phone for anything. Most of them have a generic and rudimentary form of color management, but not where it matters.

 

Lightroom supports full color management, but to take full advantage of it you need to calibrate and profile your display. This ensures that the file is correctly represented on screen. This is the reference.

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