Solution to make colours match with photoshop after exporting web or in a non-color manage software.

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March 30, 2020
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I found a solution to make sure that the color match with photoshop after exporting images to the web or in a non-color manage software. While on photoshop click on Edit > convert to profile > under "destination Space" chose "adobe RGB (1998)"

tip: Remember to convert the file before you do any editing that should make the color look the same after you export.

I haven't managed to do that in lightroom yet but work 100% in photoshop

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D Fosse

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That doesn't solve anything. The proper solution is to check "embed color profile" in Export/SFW and use a color managed web browser. Get it right, instead of all wrong.

The only way to make Photoshop match a non-color managed application - if you want to dumb it down to that level (and ruin your files in the process) - is to make your document profile the same as the monitor profile. It doesn't matter which profile, as long as they're the same. This disables all color management. It means that no conversion from document profile to monitor profile happens. This is known as a null transform. In plain English, nothing happens.

So if that gets them to match, that means you're using Adobe RGB as monitor profile. Which is wrong. The monitor profile needs to describe the actual and current response of your monitor, not some generic "ideal" profile. Your monitor does not match Adobe RGB. This is why people use calibrators.

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đứcn14598057Author

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What you failed to understand is that for some users, they only create content to be publish on social media. With most web platforms, they seem to be still using the older colour space, including the default application on window which use to open jpeg file. That is why this work. It will help you to achieve the same consistentcy through most platforms given that you use the same monitor. Now monitor colour calibration is another topic altogether. I personally calibrated my monitor to match my Iphone.

D Fosse

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You're missing the point. You cannot match Photoshop to a non-color managed application, ever, except by disabling color management in Photoshop.

And what would be the purpose? Without color management, it will display differently on every screen and unit. There is no reference. Everybody will see it differently. Your phone is an outlier, a special case, not relevant to anyone else. A phone screen is very diffferent from a standard monitor.

This is the problem that color management solves. It sets a reference where there previously was none. It takes the display out of the equation and shows the file correctly whatever the screen characteristics.

But the application has to do it. Photoshop does, but a phone doesn't.

You're probably familiar with a standard profile conversion in Photoshop. You may have noticed that it goes way beyond simple color balance. It's saturation, tone curve, a complete color space. The whole file has to be recalculated to maintain its appearance in the target color space. This is what happens when Photoshop displays an image. The data are converted from the document color space and into the monitor color space. Both those profiles need to be there.

You should never use Adobe RGB on the web. On a standard monitor, without color management, it will appear very dull and desaturated. If it looks roughly right on your phone, that just means your phone has a wide gamut screen that will blow up saturation unless corrected by color management. I can assure you it will not look like that elsewhere.

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