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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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Jao vdLCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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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.

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KK_Vijay
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March 27, 2025

Thanks Jao this is helpful - for some background i have a pc and use to edit on LR classic, but what i was exporting was so distinctly different, i went and bought a macbook to help tighten up color consistentcy.. So i do not use True Tone on my Iphone, so since i typically edit on my MBP and then export through my Iphone to upload to IG, can you explain to me how to export in P3? and I should have Internet and Web selected on my macbook LR cc? This is just such a frustrating process and to be frank a rabbithole that i never wanted to enter haha

 


Hi all,

I am using Lightroom iOS mobile v10.2.3 and with this in place I have observed my photos in jpeg format looks little bit unsaturated when it exported from RAW format.

 

Following are the settings used while exporting. Could anyone please let me know the root cause?

 

 1. Selected Max available dimensions 

2. image quality as 100%
3. Output sharpening as screen 

4. amount set it as standard 

5. color profile set it as sRGB

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