Image when saved isnt the same..

[rgrebby]

Ive just noticed that when I export something from LR or PS the quality is just terrible. Ive tried saving it as a tiff or jpg.

I'd show you an example but I cant save anything without the loss.

Its just things look totally different than in LR and im sure they never used to look that terrible, its almost like the number of colours has been reduced.

 

[Richard King]

its the colour profile chosen in the export menu thats the culprit

 

[rgrebby]

ive not changed anything as far as I know. I exported as adobe rgb instead and its the same.

 

[rgrebby]

Here is an example, over all its lost most of its colour and lightness.

 

[rgrebby]

ok, this is very odd. I checked this same picture on my iphone and laptop and it looks fine.

Oh, and I have two screens. On one the picture is fine and on my main it looks terrible...

Im using windows 7 64bit, is there something ive screwed up on here to make saved pictures look like turd?

 

[Montymint]

Could it be monitor calibration?

 

[Richard King]

right

Lightroom uses ProPhoto RGB to render on the screen, this is a very wide gamut. When you export out, to another color space, there will be very slight variations.

However, if you eport to the normal sRGB profile you would expect to see everythiung honkey dory out of lightroom. Different methods of viewing do or dont respect the embeded profile. On the same machine, try paint, safari, firefox, IE and windows viewer, side by side

see this page here for examples - http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/article_pages/web-browser-color-management.html

 

[rgrebby]

Could it be monitor calibration?

might be but im searching for a way to reset it all.

Ive done something now and everything looks the same, although now its all darker

 

[Montymint]

might be worth buying a spyder, I'm looking into getting one as i've noticed even in my house the 3 pc's display my photos differently. So for the one i'm working on i'll need to make sure it is spot on.

 

[JasonRS]

Monitor Calibration, including screen brightness.
Embedding the colour profile (easy to uncheck in lightroom by accident)
Second display doesn't have the colour range to handle it (my second display makes images look like p00h too as it's only a cheap one)

Going from 16bit in LR or PS shouldn't cause too much loss of range, unless you have a huge range in the image (which the posted image shouldn't have).

To reset your display profiles on a Mac got to

System Preferences / Displays /

Hit the Colour button, and select the one for your display.

Then make sure everything else is set to sRGB (you can't change Lightroom, which uses MelissaRGB btw, only what it exports in)


Can't remember for Windows.

BTW, I really like the image posted, I'm guessing a soft light to camera right?