Help Needed with Colour problem between LR/PS and Other apps

[GerryS]

I've been scratching my head for a few days now tryng to work out what happens to the colours of some images when I email them or use them in say Premiere. The image looks as intended in LR or PS but then appears to go "muddy" when opened in another program. The screen grab below is of exactly the same file open simultaneously in PS (how it should look) and as an attachment in Outlook.

There is a head shaped mark on the wall! The problem stays with the application rather than the monitor so it's not the monitors set with different brightness/contrast and the problem has only started since I subscribed to LR/PS Creative cloud, with a very old version of PS running on the same PC I didn't have a problem.

Any suggestions gratefully received!

 

[johnnypanic]

What colour space are you using in PS?

You may be using, Adobe RGB in PS, but SRGB, in other programs? Try exporting, using SRGB, in PS.

 

[GerryS]

Cheers John, I'll have a look in the morning when I've fired the computer back up.

 

[Pookeyhead]

Almost certainly because the image is saved with Adobe RGB1998 or another wide gamut colourspace such as Pro Photo embedded, so when the colourspace is reduced in a browser, it looks desaturated. Save the images with sRGB IEC61966-2.1 embedded and it will probably be fine.

Also, go to edit/colour settings in PS and ensure you have Europe General Purpose 3 set as the default settings to prevent this from happening again

When exporting from LR... make sure again that sRGB is set for colourspace. File/Export... or Ctrl+shift+E

 

[GerryS]

Cheers David, it was indeed set to ProPhoto! I couldn't get my head round it as in some applications it was fine, others it was terrible but mystery now solved. Thanks David and John for your help, it's appreciated.

 

[hollis_f]

Cheers David, it was indeed set to ProPhoto! I couldn't get my head round it as in some applications it was fine, others it was terrible but mystery now solved. Thanks David and John for your help, it's appreciated.

Some applications can read the embedded colourspace and do a fair job of diaplying it correctly. Others don't. Many don't but can be changed to do so.

 

[Pookeyhead]

Some applications can read the embedded colourspace and do a fair job of diaplying it correctly. Others don't. Many don't but can be changed to do so.

So far as browsers go... only firefox does a decent job of converting to sRGB, as it's the only one that will actually use your monitors .ICM profile... but even that doesn't do it by default... it needs a custom setting.


It's best to convert anything for public, digital consumption into sRGB. It's the only sure way of ensuring your images are not going to desaturate horribly on most people's screens, or oversaturate horribly on un-profiled wide gamut screens.