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zenfiretrading
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August 18, 2019
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My JPEG is coming up as different colors on different screens

  • August 18, 2019
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Hey guys new here. I took some RAW photos the other day. I uploaded them into light room and got the color how I wanted to get them. Then sent them to photoshop and saved as a .jpeg,

Here is the photo on my desktop. Looks great.

Now when I view the same page on my Iphone. It looks like this

Looks not great. Can you guys help me solve this problem? Thanks alot for your help!

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zenfiretradingAuthor
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August 19, 2019

Wow I never knew that! Very interesting. Any books or resources you guys could recommend for me to learn more about this from?

Per Berntsen
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Per BerntsenCommunity Expert
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August 19, 2019

I've written some articles that you may find helpful –

What is a digital image?

File formats

Lightroom basics

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zenfiretradingAuthor
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August 19, 2019

Fantastic thank you very much!!

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zenfiretradingAuthor
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August 18, 2019

Also got it fixed, displays fine on my phone. Man this whole world of raw is new to me. What a pain in the ass LOL. I appreciate you guys. Anyone got any good links to some courses on raw files so I can learn all this?

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zenfiretradingAuthor
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August 18, 2019

Can I just open up the JPEG and resave it or do I have to start the process over from the raw file?

davescm
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davescmCommunity Expert
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August 18, 2019

Whilst you can open the jpeg and then Export it in the new colour space, opening and resaving jpegs is not advisable as each save degrades the image due to lossless lossy compression.

If you have the original available i.e the raw file, go back to that and export with sRGB as the color space

Dave

Edited to correct lossless to lossy - thanks Per Bernstien

Per Berntsen
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Per BerntsenCommunity Expert
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August 18, 2019

davescm  wrote

each save degrades the image due to lossless compression.

Dave, I'm pretty sure you mean lossy compression

Per Berntsen
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Per BerntsenCommunity Expert
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August 18, 2019

I suspect that the jpg has been saved in the ProPhoto color space, which is unsuitable for web use. Use sRGB instead.

And there is no need to go to Photoshop unless you need to do further editing.

Export the file from Lightroom, and choose sRGB for color space.

If you need to use Photoshop, don't Save as, but use Save for Web or Export, and make sure that both Convert to sRGB and Embed profile are checked.

davescm
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davescmCommunity Expert
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August 18, 2019

Hi

Photoshop is color managed which means that the colour information in the image is translated using both the document colour space profile and  the monitor profile to ensure that the colours are displayed correctly on your screen.  Phones (both iOS and Android) are not colour managed. The data in the document is just sent to the screen regardless of document colour space or monitor capability. So the phone colours display incorrectly.

The best you can do is Export the image and  tick the boxes to Convert to sRGB and Embed Color Profile. On phones, the color profile will still be ignored but at least the conversion to sRGB will deliver the image in a web standard colour space.

Dave

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