AdobeRGB->SRGB=Over saturated

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October 10, 2019
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Hello everybody,

I'm using Adobe RGB color settings on my camera (RAW), monitor and Photoshop. It looks great in Photoshop and on my pc, but as soon as i export it to SRGB, it looks to saturated. No matter if i include the profile. Also, when i upload the picture (to facebook or instagram) in Adobe RGB or SRGB, it both also looks overly saturated on my phone.

I want to work in Adobe RGB, because i would like to print my work every now and then. Is this a difference i have to live with when converting, or am i doing something wrong?

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You say you "export it to sRGB". There are multiple ways this might be done. Please show screen shots of the dialogs you go though to do that, showing all your settings. There's a lot to it, and maybe there is some simple explanation. The colours should not become more saturated.

Ghost13Author

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Done. It's in Dutch, but i guess it still makes sence.

davescm

Community Expert

Hi

All you can do is convert to sRGB and Embed the colour profile.

On a colour managed system and in a colour managed browser it will look correct. On a none colour managed application/browser with a monitor close to sRGB it will look close to correct. On a none colour managed system with a wide gamut monitor it is guaranteed to look incorrect - but no-one should be using wide gamut monitors without full colour management (despite what the marketing people may say).
Phones are a prime example. They are not colour managed (whether iOS or Android) and yet they are fitted with wide gamut displays. A perfect recipe for incorrect colour!

Dave

Ghost13Author

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Would it make a difference to switch to SRGB all together? Or will the colors still be incorrect?

davescm

Community Expert

Viewed on wide gamut monitors using applications without colour management, colours will look incorrect. It's the part that marketing folk fail to tell people when they say our monitor/tablet/phone has all these extra colours.......