How to prepare photo colors for phones and Instagram

Thanks a lot! 

By colorless I meant soft, while on phones it appeard to be reddish, very reddish. I tried calibration, always convert to sRGB, tried save for web, embeding profile.

I am having that issue from the start, but it got worse with the latest photoshoot. I am wondering if the white balance could affect it? I tried something new, but when it looks great on computer, why it is awful on phones? I am taking RAW and exports to jpg, maybe here is the problem? 

I am using MSI gv628rc, tried photos on almost every phones- Xiaomi MI9t, few huaweis, iPhones...

Looking forward for some help 🙂 

Hi,

"on my computer photos is almost colorless (in Photohsop, chrome, picasa), while on the phones it is veeeeeeeeeeery reddish and yellowish"

don't they look right anywhere? maybe the photos actually do have a bad appearance? 

1:

work your images in Photoshop - ideally on a calibrated and profiled montor screen once you're happy they look right move onto the next step

[or use a test image for this test - such as: 

free testimage download here 

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the iomage has 'memory colours', you can tell if it looks way off

2:

don't trust chrome and picasa or any other app, unless a displayed image matches photoshop well, they may use colour management and give you an accurate result but its impoertant to test this

3:

convert the image to sRGB [edit/convert to profile in Photoshop] and embed the ICC profile when you save a copy for web use 

/ or use "save for web" but be sure the check to embed the sRGB ICC profile

4:

if you still have issues then tell us more about your setup, your procedure and on what hardware you are viewing images.

and where are those problem images coming from?

I hope this helps

if so, please "like" my reply and if you're OK now, please mark it as "correct", so that others who have similar issues can see the solution

thanks

neil barstow, colourmanagement.net :: adobe forum volunteer

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Without any specific info about your procedures nobody can really advise. Aside from the fact that most phones just plainly ignore color profiles it is thus usually best to not go crazy over color management other than working on a reasonably good monitor that is close to the default sRGB color. In turn this likely means that you are overdoing it and in the process screwing things up.

Mylenium