Adobe Photoshop is exporting images brighter than they show on the canvas

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December 13, 2020
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As it says in the title, in the Export window in PS, the image is much brighter than it looks in the canvas, and the image is exported brighter too. I have checked the Color Profile under Edit>Color Settings and it's set to 'North America General Purpose 2'

I have checked my monitor calibration, and it's the Windows 10 default profile(s).

I've also looked through the settings to see if there's some option somewhere that brightens up the image during export that's not shown on the canvas, but I didn't find anything.

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Correct answer davescm

a. What is the document profile? Check here:

b. What is your monitor profile set to? Your monitor profile in your operating system should be set to the profile for your specific monitor (prefereably one made with a hardware calibration device)

c. When you export are you checking both Convert to sRGB and Embed Color Profile?

d. The 10 million dollar question 🙂 What specific application are you using to view and compare the exported images when you say you are viewing outside of Photoshop ?

Dave

davescm

Correct answer

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a. What is the document profile? Check here:

b. What is your monitor profile set to? Your monitor profile in your operating system should be set to the profile for your specific monitor (prefereably one made with a hardware calibration device)

c. When you export are you checking both Convert to sRGB and Embed Color Profile?

d. The 10 million dollar question 🙂 What specific application are you using to view and compare the exported images when you say you are viewing outside of Photoshop ?

Dave

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Branden5FAAAuthor

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Thank you for your help on this!

a. I don't see that at the bottom of Photoshop, but it's just an .png opened via the File>Open box (or sometimes I click and drag from file explorer into PS)

b. Windows 10 Color Management says Device Profile is set to: System Default (sRGB IEC61966-2.1). Interesting thing about that though, when I opened up Color Management I noticed a checkbox that says 'Use my settings for this device' that was checked, and in the list it didn't have any profiles, so I unchecked that box and restarted PS, and NOW what's shown on the canvas matches up with what shown on the Export box and external programs, like Firefox or the windows file explorer.

So the issue has been fixed! Thank you for your help in nailing down the possibilities, I appreciate it

D Fosse

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You got this all wrong, and you have just managed to turn all color management off. That's a recipe for disaster down the road.

Recheck "use my settings", and reassign sRGB IEC61966-2.1 as default monitor profile. This should optimally be a profile made by a calibrator, but if you don't have one, sRGB will often be close enough for non-critical use.

Now, here's where you missed Dave's point: you need to have an embedded color profile in the document. So you need to check "embed color profile" in the Export dialog. With this checked, you see the fully color managed version in Export, and to the point: it will now match Photoshop.

It will also match in Firefox. At default settings Firefox has all color management disabled for files that don't have an embedded profile. With the profile there, color management is turned on. You can change this in Firefox preferences, but for now the important thing is to always embed the profile.

Windows Explorer doesn't support color management at all, and is a lost cause. It will never display correctly, ever, under any circumstances. Disregard it.

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