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jjc97158674
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April 28, 2023
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LR Mobile export to Camera Roll (Photos - IOS) Colors are washed..

  • April 28, 2023
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This is becoming super frustrating and continues to drive me to the brink of madness. Attached is the photo i'm editing in LR Mobile on the left (which has the correct color and contrast, detail etc) and when i save it to my Iphone 13 Pro you can see the color is chalky, washed, and loss of contrast; on the right. This is one unacceptable and infuriating, to spend all this money on equipment and software just to get an inaccurate photo is mind boggling. I have also turned off my 'HRD' settings in my Photos app so this is the direct comparison. Any help is super appreciated!!!

Correct answer Jao vdL

The reason this is happening is that you are selecting a too narrow colorspace for the color of the sea in that image. You are probably chosing sRGB and that jade color is not possible in sRGB. So simply make sure you export to display P3 instead (the colorspace your iPhone's display is in).

Here is the proof. Soft proofing your screenshot to sRGB in Classic. You can see the left (your Lightroom app) is way out of sRGB gamut (red areas). That color simply cannot be displayed in sRGB. Right is not clipped because the export already clipped it to sRGB and dulled the colors as a result. You can set the options on how to export using the tiny little buttons on the right hand side of of the share button, then choose "More options"->Color Space

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April 28, 2023

The reason this is happening is that you are selecting a too narrow colorspace for the color of the sea in that image. You are probably chosing sRGB and that jade color is not possible in sRGB. So simply make sure you export to display P3 instead (the colorspace your iPhone's display is in).

Here is the proof. Soft proofing your screenshot to sRGB in Classic. You can see the left (your Lightroom app) is way out of sRGB gamut (red areas). That color simply cannot be displayed in sRGB. Right is not clipped because the export already clipped it to sRGB and dulled the colors as a result. You can set the options on how to export using the tiny little buttons on the right hand side of of the share button, then choose "More options"->Color Space

Rick.Williams
Rick.Williams
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April 29, 2023

I really wish Adobe would offer more guidence, or ever default to P3. I bet a lot of users are affected by this and don't even realize it.

jjc97158674
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May 3, 2023

A few things to understand. The color space you edit in does not matter because the display is color managed and more importantly cannot be changed! You also cannot fully control what people see as most displays on phones, especially android phones that vary all over the place, are not calibrated and will show wildly different colors no matter what you do. Worse, many online services such as facebook and instagram convert the color space your image is in into sRGB or worse, strip the color profile. So you simply cannot control it completely, no matter what you do. So you unfortunately have to give up on the dream of being able to control this. You can get close but not perfect.

What matters a bit is what color space you export to. Most Mac Book Pros have display P3 capable displays as do recent iPhones. All Apple devices color manage nowadays so all that is great. Doesn't mean they show the correct color though as most people will have true tone enabled which completely destroys color accuracy. Regardless, if you want to have a chance of seeing similar the same color as on your display, export to display P3 color space. Do know that if your device uses true tone, or is a android device, it won't be perfect. Worse, if you upload to instagram or such, the color space will change. If you want to control for the latter, you need to soft proof to the sRGB color space and edit your images while soft proofing. Unfortunately the cloud based Lightroom cannot soft proof (a big missing feature in the cloud based Lightroom). You can only do that in Lightroom Classic or in Photoshop. There is a bit of a trick if you have a recent MacBookPro. You can set the display profile on the mac book to "Internet and Web (sRGB)" and the operating system will limit the display to sRGB and will sort of soft proof for you, even in cloudy Lightroom. You can't do that on the phone though. 

 


So i was able to change my MBP color profile but once applied the Internet Web it killed my brightness, so it was impossible to edit. Im not sure how this doesnt affect more users and isn't an issue for the majority.

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