Photoshop Changing Color Profile on Every Export

Appreciate all the helpful responses. I'm looking more into browser color management now and see that most desktop browsers do in fact finally color manage (even if mobile is still a complete mess). However it still doesn't add up why Chrome on Windows here is still showing the above image so severely different, even though other tests seem to indicate my browser is color managing fine. I have the color profile embedded and it's still displaying these incorrectly on Chrome.

Hi


1: Always embed the ICC profile on saving, even for the web, sRGB is tiny so adds hardly any size*

*(which is why folk used to avoid embedding profiles on web destined image).

you write -" all are set as Untagged RGB with "Convert to sRGB" selected by default when exporting"

if you think about it that’s dangerous, definitely not how it should be. "converting" untagged files is risky, what is the conversion FROM -

that has to be assumed by Photoshop, so it takes the current working colour space as source.

If you change the default photoshop working space that changes the source. bad.

2: "universal" data is mostly best saved as sRGB [not ideal if going to print], but far safer for screen display
 - it seems you’re doing that sometimes.

3: on ANY wide gamut device colour management is essential for appearance to be correct.

So ONLY colour managed apps can show your files correctly.

Sending files out and that’s a worry?

All those folk with wide gamut display devices that don't know any better are used to what they see, so we just have to let them get on with it.

I hope this helps 


thanks

neil barstow, colourmanagement

"what surprises me then is that it still shows up incorrectly on other apps and devices too"

Don't be surprised. Windows Photo Viewer isn't a strange exception,it's just a normal Windows app. Almost all Windows apps are not colour managed. Almost all browsers cannot colour managed. Most mobile devices aren't colour managed at all. Systems have gone backwards, not forwards. Welcome to the brave new world of Similar Looking Colour.

"I don't even know what the point of correct color is in the first place."

It is for workflows that are ENTIRELY colour managed. In the context of today's world, that largely means design for print.

"Also the device in question is an XPS 15 OLED with 239% sRGB gamut. "

The important thing about wide gamut monitors is this. Use them ONLY with colour managed apps. Not for other apps, including browsers. They are a wonderful tool, a very specialist tool, and not for general use at all. They should be, but sadly the colour management just isn't there and nobody (who might fix it) cares. You need a regular monitor too for other work.

That's absolutely correct. This isn't a mystery at all - "Photos" simply isn't color managed, and all profiles, both document and monitor, are ignored.

You always need to separate between those applications that support color management, and those that don't. The latter category is useless if accuracy is important. Throw them out, don't use them. Find something else.

If you have a wide gamut monitor that becomes a rather urgent consideration.

Always, always, always embed the color profile. An untagged image has no reference and can display like anything at all.

You aren't using a colour managed app to view the file. Yes, unbelievably, Windows photo viewer cannot show correct colours. Most Windows browsers can't either. Windows users just don't seem to care enough to get Microsoft to fix it.

Choosing sRGB often looks about right, but if you have a high gamut monitor NOTHING can make such apps show correct colour. If you have such a monitor and want accurate colour stick only to colour managed apps, or else you have the wrong monitor.

If you aren't sure whether your monitor is wide gamut, let us know the model, please.