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Image looks more dull than in the phone screen.

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Aug 29, 2023 Aug 29, 2023

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When i open phone taken on my phone using my desktop computer it looks very dull, especially red colors.

 

Source image is here: https://www.upload.ee/files/15627588/sRGB_Photo.zip.html

 

ICC-On.jpg

 

When i open image in FastStoneImageViewer or XnView MP viewers image looks vivid as on the phone screen, color management (ICC profiles) are off in the settings of image viewers by default (if ICC profiles are turned on image looks just as dull as in Photoshop).

 

ICC-Off.jpg

 

 

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Aug 29, 2023 Aug 29, 2023

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If color management is working as it should in Photoshop, that is the correct representation of the image.

 

Correct color management is a chain with three links:

  • an embedded document profile that defines the colors
  • an accurate monitor profile set up at system level. A calibrator will do that.
  • an application that supports color management and converts correctly from one into the other.

If those three conditions are met, the image will display correctly.

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Sep 01, 2023 Sep 01, 2023

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ICC profiles give you a correct view of your image in Adobe apps. But only on a correctly calibrated monitor display screen.

If the images look dull on your display screen, then it could be that the screen is set up incorrectly, handheld device screens (since about iPhone* 8) are quite consistent, one-to-the-other (other than brightness which is adjusted by the viewer)

 

*with iPhones, for consistency when testing TruTone and Night Shift mode need to be off because that will automatically make the screen yellower to compensate for ambient light as the sun sets. 

 

Try this

Recent models of iPad, Android (such as Samsung) and iPhone have factory calibration which is pretty reliable, so they are quite consistent - of course brightness is user adjustable. 

IF your main computer screen is correctly calibrated and profiled and if you save images with the sRGB ICC profile embedded they should reproduce well on an iOS or Android device. My iPhone X matches my calibrated Eizo Coloredge screen very well as long as the phone brighness is close.

Here's an Adobe RGB image to try on the computer - and a version for the 1Pad / Android / iPhone (view in a browser on the device)

With all set up correctly on your computer, these should match well

 

bit more for Mac users viewing this:

https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/ios/visual-design/color/

 

I hope this helps neil barstow, 
colourmanagement net :: adobe forum volunteer
google me "neil barstow colourmanagement" 
for lots of free articles on colour manageI hope this helps
neil barstow, colourmanagement net - adobe forum volunteer - co-author: 'getting colour right'
google me "neil barstow colourmanagement" for lots of free articles on colour management

 

 

 

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