exported photos losing contrast, black point and vignette

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July 21, 2023
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Heyah! So I just recently switched from Affinify to photoshop and Lightroom and am having strange issues that I've never had before.

when exporting from Photoshop to my iPhone photos don't necessarily look bad, but they really,really(!) lack some contrast, black point and vignettes. In fact, those three barely show up in my photos at all!

I've watched a bunch of YouTube videos on what to do with some changes but nothing that fixed the issue.

Ive taken pics of settings in Photoshop. I will add them to this post.

Also I'm using a Samsung monitor with Radeon RX 5500 XT. I am not very tech savvy (a friend built my PC) so I can provide other specs if that would be helpful.

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Also to everyone sorry if I'm annoying. On this level of technical things I am not knowledgeable at all really.

NB, colourmanagement

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@scarrie0612

IMO recent handhelds tend to be pretty consistent, one to the next, that’s my experience (mostly testing with iPhones since the 8, to be honest).

Try opening this test image in Photoshop

And this one on a phone browser - it was set up for an iPhone but it is still worth testing if you have an Android phone.

how do they compare?

I hope this helps
neil barstow, colourmanagement net - adobe forum volunteer - co-author: 'getting colour right'
google me "neil barstow colourmanagement" for lots of free articles on colour management

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scarrie0612Author

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iPhone is a bit warmer but every Pc monitor i used is like that. So I'm not worried there. It does look closer then the past. I used the spyder pro today and not calibrated it was very noticeably much more blue then it is now.

My next question is, I reset all photoshop settings. It is set to sRGB but when exporting to photoshop from Lightroom it always shows the color profile is in Pro photo. Is there something I should do to get it to sRGB or ks this something to not really worry about?

D Fosse

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First of all - this would be much easier if you made actual screenshots instead of photographing your screen.

Second - there is no reason to trust your phone for anything. Photoshop is the reference, as long as you observe some basic color management guidelines. They're not complicated, and it basically works out of the box.

Leave Photoshop color settings at defaults. I see you have policies set to "convert to working RGB". Don't do that. It should always be set to "preserve embedded profiles". That's the way Photoshop is designed to work, and that's how modern color management is intended to work. With this setting, the embedded profile always takes precedence and overrides the working space. It follows from this that you always need to make sure there is an embedded profile. For the pruposes of this discussion it doesn't matter which one, as long as it's there.

The next link in the color management chain is the monitor profile. This is set at system level, not in Photoshop. The monitor profile is a standard icc profile, and it is used in a standard profile conversion like any other profile conversion - but executed by Photoshop on the fly, as you work. Photoshop loads the monitor profile at startup. It uses whatever profile it gets from the operating system.

The monitor profile has one job: it needs to describe the monitor's behavior in its current state, in detail. The profile is a map, and like any map it needs to describe the actual terrain accurately. If it doesn't, Photoshop cannot display correctly.

If both these profiles are present and correct, Photoshop will display correctly. And then you need to view the exported file in an application that also supports full color management and reads both these profiles and converts from one into the other.

The monitor profile should ideally be made by a calibrator, based on direct measurement off the display. Any serious Photoshop user will have and use a calibrator. If you want accurate color, it's an essential piece of equipment.