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October 18, 2024
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Oversaturation on facebook on other devices

  • October 18, 2024
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Hello! Ive been having an issue where I upload photos directly from my computer I have windows 11. When I upload them to facebook they look fine on my computer screen, but when i go to view them in facebook on a different device like my cell phone they are over saturated and faces look orange. 
Ive tried to play with color setting in photoshop to fix the issue but no luck. 
I've uploaded photos before without this happening, so I dont  know if its just windows 11 or facebook trying to condence the photo? Or if its photoshop? 


all my devices and programs are up to date. 

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D Fosse
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 5, 2024

To sum it all up:

 

Oversaturation means that sRGB is displayed on a wide gamut screen without proper color management.

 

Do not touch anything in Photoshop color settings!

Participating Frequently
November 5, 2024

I do not think this is the problem givin I have uploaded photos on the same computer without any issue before. This has obly happened once so its not my screen. 

D Fosse
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 5, 2024

@Miss_Val22 

The problem isn't your screen, but whether the application performs color management when sending data to the screen. It's not the hardware, it's the software.

 

Some applications don't support color management at all, they will never display correctly under any circumstances.

 

What is certain, is that Photoshop is not the problem. That's why you shouldn't change anything in Photoshop.

 

The point is that if you see sRGB oversaturated, the color management chain isn't operating - whether it's because the application doesn't support it, or there's a defective component like an icc profile. If the latter, it's usually the monitor profile.

Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 5, 2024

Have you color-calibrated your display recently?  That's important.

https://www.microsoft.com/windows/learning-center/how-to-color-calibrate-your-monitor

 

Also, when exporting images for the web, always use sRGB Color Space which is a common web standard.  Without it, some browsers like Firefox will render colors in unexpected ways.

 

From Photoshop, go to File > Export > ExportAs.   See screenshot.

 

 

Hope that helps.

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
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November 5, 2024

Thank you!! This is also helpful! 🙂

NB, colourmanagement
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October 21, 2024

@Miss_Val22 Please don't 'play with' the colour settings in Photoshop. (I know the feeling though, I did it myself back in the 90's) That’s way you'll only get into a tangle.

Do your image files have an embedded ICC profile? Thats vital. 

Next step, when you save images to be viewed on Facebook etc, it's best to convert the image colourspace to sRGB and embed the ICC profile. 

 

Please let us know how that goes

 

I hope this helps
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Participating Frequently
November 4, 2024

I'm not sure about the icc profiles because I've never had an issue before this previous upload. 
steps on how to embed icc profiles would be appreciated. 

ThioJoe
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 4, 2024

It's almost certainly a color management issue of some kind, but that's an entire can of worms. The problem could be occurring at the photoshop level, like due to the chosen working color space or exported/embedded color space, or it could be at the windows level with a weird ICC profile set, it could be the monitor (though if you didn't change monitors probably unlikely), or it could even be a change in how the facebook app assumes color spaces on photos. Though the fact that you mention it happens on multiple other devices that says to me there is a mismatch of chosen color space somehow on the device you're editing the pictures.

If you want the simplest potential solution, take a look at these two options in the Export As menu when you go to save a photo:

If they are checked, try unchecking them, and vice-versa, etc. You can also try just checking to Convert to sRGB without embedding the color profile.

Another thing you could check is for this setting in Windows to "Automatically manage color for apps". If it's enabled, you can try disabling it, and vice-versa.

 

 

I have an entire video about the topic which should be a pretty good primer, it's pretty long but you should have a better idea of why it's happening if you can sit through it. Ignore the semi-clickbait title, you don't necessarily need to change ICC profiles for your monitor, but you'll still have a better understanding of why different devices look oversaturated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdFpJFSTMVw