Colour Exporting

Question

Hello, I am having trouble with the colours that fill a object I created on illustrator and Photoshop, everytime I export, the colours are darker and sometimes just completely off, I have tried saving as a PNG, JPEG, GIF, I have tried exporting as a web preference, making sure colour embed is on, sRG something is selected, nothing is working, once I export them they look fine loaded up on my laptop (I am using a windows hp) its when I send them to my iPhone via email I load them up and the colours are wrong, could anyone help, is it Photoshop, my email or my phone, I've tried everything for a few days now.

Thanks,

Chris

davescm · Answer

HiThe answer is simple (but probably not what you want to hear).Applications such as Photoshop and some web browsers and viewers use colour management. That means they use the embeded document profile (such as sRGB) and the monitor profile to convert colours on the fly and ensure they are displayed correctly. Phones (Android and iphones) are not colour managed. They just take the RGB values in teh document and send them to the screen without any translation. It is one of the shortcomings of phones that they are marketed as having superb screens capable of displaying a vast range of colours yet they do not incorporate proper colour management in their operating systems.The bext you can do when exporting is check both "Convert to sRGB" and "Embed colour profile". That way they will look correct in colour managed applications and close on non color managed applications with sRGB monitors. As for phones, or other non colour managed applications with wide gamut monitors, they will look incorrect - how incorrect depends on the phone / system.Dave

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