Hey guys so I ran into an odd issue with my LR and PS. When I export a photo it looks completely different but if I take a screen shot of that same photo when editing the screen shot looks perfect and normal. There seems to be something going on with the color management. I tried messing around with a lot of things in preferences but with no luck. I also connected different calibrated displays to my pc and it shows the same result for some reason so it is not to do with a display but rather something within lightroom and photoshop, camera raw, or something color management wise. My maching is a dell xps 15. I am leaving some examples below.
As we can see there is a dramatic color and contrast shift for some reason during the export. The differences are consistant on multiple viewers such as google chrome, my iphone, etc.
There were no changes to the settings at all.
Thank you.
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This is most likely an issue with the monitor profile.
Windows 10 is known to install low quality monitor profiles from monitor manufacturers when doing updates.
These are often defective out of the box, and Dell is no exception to this.
Try setting the monitor profile to sRGB (use Adobe RGB if you have a wide gamut monitor).
If this fixes the issue, it is recommended that you calibrate the monitor with a hardware calibrator.
This will also create and install a custom monitor profile that accurately describes your monitor.
Close all color managed applications, then press the Windows key + R, type colorcpl in the box and press Enter.
Add the sRGB profile, then set it as default.
Phones are not color managed, so you cannot expect to see correct colors on your iPhone.
Chrome is color managed, and should display accurate colors, but a defective profile may affect some applications and not others.
Note that no native Windows applications (Edge, Photos, Paint, File explorer, Desktop) are color managed, and will not display correct colors.
And if you've been playing around with Photoshop's color settings, set everything back to default.
Thank you Pat for the help. I have tried what you said but still getting the same result. I am also working on a BenQsw 2700 pt which is hardware calibrated. When I edit videos and such in premiere and aftereffects all the colors are accurate. Only when bringing the media into LR and PS do things start getting weird. I have tried making the AdobeRGB as well as the SRG my deafult in the windows color management application. Do you think there may be an other solutions.
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