Gray Cast Disappears/Reappears Upon Export - Photos Look Contrasty on Phone

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January 7, 2023
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Hello! I'm new to Lightroom (Version 6.1) and am wondering if anyone can explain why I'm having this issue.

When editing in Lightroom on my Surface, I like to raise the blacks to add that sort of grayed out film look to my photos. But when I view the photos on my iPhone, they look super contrasty.

At first, I just thought the photos looked different because the colors on my laptop are calibrated differently. (They look good when I view the exported photos on my laptop!)

But then, I realized that the photos on my phone looked how they do when the export preview is loading in Lightroom (see screenshots). That's right, when the export preview is loading in Lighroom, the photos get super contrasty,...but then once the export preview is fully loaded, they go back to normal.

I don't understand why Lightroom is briefly showing me the "phone version" upon loading the export preview, and I obviously want my photos to look the same accross the board. Can anyone explain this? Thanks!

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Jao vdL

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Just reread your post and the actual culprit might actually be the calibration on the Surface. How are you doing that? If it is not a color calibration puck such as a Spyder Pro or Colormunki or similar, your Surface is not actually calibrated.

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Jao vdL

Community Expert

Probably has to do with your settings on your phone if you calibrate the surface using calibration hardware. iPhones have a number of settings that you need to turn off or you get bad color rendering. They are True Tone and Night Shift. Both destroy color accuracy. Also try installing Lightroom app on your phone and logging onto the same account. Do the images look differently there? If they look close (they will never look exactly the same), it is the image viewer you are using on the phone that is the issue.

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Shelby23894285hzos作成者

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I tried installing the Lightroom app on my phone and they also look constrasty there, just like in the export preview on my laptop. It was a good idea to check that.

To answer your other question, I have not actually calibrated my Surface, so that's why I was just assuming it was off. What I'm confused about, though, is how the Surface is capable of showing me the contrasty version, it just doesn't most of the time. The culprit has gotta be the Surface, right?

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Jao vdL

Community Expert

Ah yeah then it is the calibration. What probably happens is that the Surface shows you first the non-color corrected version before it applies the screen profile to it. This would normally improve the image but if the profile is not actually a calibrated profile, it can make it look more wrong. Do realize however that even though iPhone screens are usually quite well calibrated they are not perfect and especially the deep shadows can be too punchy on devices such as this. Don't expect perfect correspondence. That unfortunately will never happen.

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Shelby23894285hzos作成者

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Note that if I view the two attached screenshots on my iPhone, they look about the same. The grayed out version looks grayed out, and the contrasy version looks contrasty. It's only when I view the actual exported photo that it looks contrasty instead of grayed out, like I want it.

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