Odd colour

[cargo]

I've taken a couple of photos and edited them in Lightroom, then sent them over to photoshop then saved them as a jpeg.


The issue is : On my pc the thumbnails seem fine, the colours look as they are supposed to, if I double click to view them in Windows 11 photo viewer the colours are shocking very dull and lacking in saturation ?


The images look ok on my phone as they should be but when you send them via WhatsApp the thumbnails look shocking again but if you click them to view them the colours come back as they should be......


Am I missing something ? Have I saved them wrongly somehow ?


The only thing I did differently when editing was to flatten some layers and take the images into camera raw for a slight adjustment. I have never used that feature before that's why I mention it.


Thanks

Gaz

 

[Box Brownie]

I've taken a couple of photos and edited them in Lightroom, then sent them over to photoshop then saved them as a jpeg.


The issue is : On my pc the thumbnails seem fine, the colours look as they are supposed to, if I double click to view them in Windows 11 photo viewer the colours are shocking very dull and lacking in saturation ?


The images look ok on my phone as they should be but when you send them via WhatsApp the thumbnails look shocking again but if you click them to view them the colours come back as they should be......


Am I missing something ? Have I saved them wrongly somehow ?


The only thing I did differently when editing was to flatten some layers and take the images into camera raw for a slight adjustment. I have never used that feature before that's why I mention it.


Thanks

Gaz

I was going to suggest it was a question of whether the W11 photo viewer was colour managed or not but it is!

So as a non LR user I can only surmise there may be something odd about the post processing???
Having said that, I am puzzled by your saying the above in bold as in AFAIK ACR will only handle raw files but you are making changes to a processed layer flattened file?

 

[cargo]

Hi thanks for the reply. It's really appreciated. I'm new to lightroom too and camera raw really. I have always used Canon dpp then Photoshop.
Apparently you can make some changes to the flattened image layer in camera raw filter. Thinking about it the only changes I made were under colour calibration.

Typing this I assume I've found the problem

Mind you I don't understand why it displays differently depending on what your viewing it with.

 

[Box Brownie]

Hi thanks for the reply. It's really appreciated. I'm new to lightroom too and camera raw really. I have always used Canon dpp then Photoshop.
Apparently you can make some changes to the flattened image layer in camera raw filter. Thinking about it the only changes I made were under colour calibration.

Typing this I assume I've found the problem

Mind you I don't understand why it displays differently depending on what your viewing it with.

If you have a copy of the file from before that last step in camera raw, that might help isolate the issue?

 

[cargo]

If you have a copy of the file from before that last step in camera raw, that might help isolate the issue?

I'll check later I did look through the history at the time but couldn't sort it.
Thanks again.

 

[cargo]

@Box Brownie

Hi

It seems the colour profile was set to ProphotoRGB.


When I converted it to sRGB IEC61966-2.1 it seemed to solve the display issues when sending via Whats app I'm unsure what's going on really. I never have had to convert colour profile before. I assume I need to save something in photoshop preferences so I'm always working in srgb ?


Is this something you would know?

Gaz

 

[Paulie-W]

@Box Brownie

Hi

It seems the colour profile was set to ProphotoRGB.


When I converted it to sRGB IEC61966-2.1 it seemed to solve the display issues when sending via Whats app I'm unsure what's going on really. I never have had to convert colour profile before. I assume I need to save something in photoshop preferences so I'm always working in srgb ?


Is this something you would know?

Gaz

From what I remember. The setting is in the "work space" in the preferences section.

 

[cargo]

@Paulie-W
Thanks for this.
I've checked back through some of my recent photos and they are all in srgb I haven't a clue why these two were in a different colour space. Unless sending them over to Photoshop via Lightroom makes a difference.....

Gaz

 

[Paulie-W]

@Paulie-W
Thanks for this.
I've checked back through some of my recent photos and they are all in srgb I haven't a clue why these two were in a different colour space. Unless sending them over to Photoshop via Lightroom makes a difference.....

Gaz

Nope, me neither. I think there was another very similar thread a couple of weeks back. Must be the default settings (that almost always needs to be sorted).

 

[ancient_mariner]

@Paulie-W
Thanks for this.
I've checked back through some of my recent photos and they are all in srgb I haven't a clue why these two were in a different colour space. Unless sending them over to Photoshop via Lightroom makes a difference.....

Gaz

IIRC Lightroom will export to photoshop in prophoto. I had an issue with this, when photos returned to lightroom were still in the prophoto colourspace even after apparently being exported as sRGB.

 

[cargo]

IIRC Lightroom will export to photoshop in prophoto. I had an issue with this, when photos returned to lightroom were still in the prophoto colourspace even after apparently being exported as sRGB.

Maybe that's it then. I am new to Lightroom the first bunch of photos I processed through Lightroom didn't go into Photoshop I just saved as jpeg from Lightroom. They had srgb colour space though. I have checked.

Gaz