Color is messed up on export to jpeg

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June 4, 2021
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I attached a few examples, both are using sRGB in Photoshop (left side), and exported as sRGB jpegs with the profile embeded (I tried without embedding as well).

As you can see the levels and saturation is quite different, I have no idea what's going on. Any ideas?

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Correct answer D Fosse

Windows "Photos" is not color managed and ignores both the document profile and your monitor profile. It will never display correctly, ever, under any circumstances. How close it is depends on the monitor you're using.

Photoshop can always be trusted as long as you have an accurate monitor profile, which you should preferably make with a calibrator. If you rely on manufacturer profiles, these are often inaccurate or defective in various ways.

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Tj HolowaychukAuthor

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Anyone else have ideas? Browsers should be displaying sRGB as I understand, however, exporting as sRGB w/ profile embedded is still doing nothing, the images are far too saturated.

D Fosse

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We've seen many cases where Chrome's color management is broken. I don't know why. It's supposed to be fully color managed and display identically to Photoshop. But sometimes it doesn't.

I use Firefox, which has always been very reliable. The only catch is that you need to go into the settings and set color management to mode 1 instead of mode 2 which is default. Mode 2 color manages correctly as long as there is an embedded profile, but not if the profile is missing. Mode 1 assigns sRGB in all scenarios, so that it always displays everything correctly.

One thing to note, however, is that browsers generally don't have multi-display support. They will use the monitor profile for your main/primary display as set in the OS, even if it's on another screen.

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