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Zett
Zett
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March 26, 2019
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Not having the same color on iPhone and Macbook!

  • March 26, 2019
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So, I've been on a vacation in this summer break with my friends. I've taken photos of them on portrait mode with my iPhone X. Everything works fine.

The problem is when I edit photos on photoshop, I love darker photos because of my personal preference and they do look good into my eyes. But I think colorization of Macbook and iPhone is slightly different. Because every time I put my photos on the edge of perfect darkness, it turns out to be way darker on iPhones so I have to adjust where it'd look good on iPhone but it doesn't meet my preference on Mac, i.e., it becomes worse in iPhone. And my friends have accepted this too so I'm wondering if there is a way to fix this colorization of two different platforms.

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davescm
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davescmCommunity Expert
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March 26, 2019

Hi

Photoshop on the Mac is colour managed. That means the colours are adjusted for display correctly using the monitor profile set in the operating system.

Phones, at present, are not colour managed so colours are just sent to the display and comes out differently. It is one of the downsides of modern phones - the manufacturers fit them with wide gamut monitors, because it sounds good in the marketing blurb (more colours ....etc)  but the operating systems (iOS or Android), unlike MacOS and Windows, do not have the colour management built in so that applications can handle those screens correctly.

Just get them looking correct on your Mac then convert them to sRGB, with teh profile embedded, and send them into the world. They will look correct for anyone using a colour managed system and close for anyone using a narrow gamut (close to srGB) monitor. They will look different on your phone but that is the phone manufacturers fault not yours. One day the operating systems and applications might catch up.

Dave

D Fosse
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D FosseCommunity Expert
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March 26, 2019

Crushed blacks is a common effect of missing color management. Most LCDs have a native dip in the low values, darkening the shadows. Color management corrects this to produce a net linear tone response.

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Francesco Della PerutaCommunity Expert
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March 26, 2019

I think the simply method to do a better job is to embed a color profile on the image.

Usually, in this case,  the SRGB color profile is a good choice.

Please take a look here:

Work with Photoshop color profiles

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