Why are my images coming out green?

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When I export my images from my laptop and view them on an iPad or smart phone the come out green. Surely my monitor cannot be that far off??

Th image I have uploaded looks ok on the laptop ( the white balance maybe a little off and there is a nasty bit of light on his hair) but viewed on the iPad

it's very green all over. My Girlfriends Nikon d5200 what this image was taken with is set to sRGB, Lightroom and elements set to same.


can anyone shed any none green on light on this matter for me please?
 
It certainly has a green hue on my screen - it's not been calibrated in around a month, but it's showing. If I open up in Photoshop CC and add in a tint of say +20 towards magenta on the white balance as a quick reference, it starts to look a lot cleaner - that's just a quick test mind. Perhaps if you add in the same correction in LR, and then view on the iPad again and see it if makes a difference?

Also, incase it's not that and my eyes / monitor / calibration are shot, I do recall somewhere that the iPad, well Safari on the iPad, ignores the embedded colour profile. (see http://regex.info/blog/2012-03-27/1964). Not sure if this is relevant to your situation.
 
There's a lot going wrong there. Daylight from one side, and probably fluorescent from the other won't be helping, and having no colour profile embedded will be making it worse.

Was it shot in RAW? If so, there will be no colour profile embedded no matter what the camera was set too. The camera will only embed a colour profile with a JPEG. RAWs have no camera settings embedded, so even if the camera has sRGB set... it will ignore it for RAW.

If the camera was shooting JPEG, then something is going wrong at the process stage, because it has no colour profile at all now. Make sure elements is embedding the profile when saving.


You did say however, that ALL your images come out green. Does this include stuff taken outside in daylight? If so... then it simply has to be part of your workflow. In ACR, do you have a colour profile set for export?....

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All the pictures I export from Lightroom/elements 12 which are then saved as JPEG look different and mainly this green tint when viewed on ipad or smartphone etc.
 
That one doesn't look particularly green here... but again... it has no colour profile embedded. Check you are embedding a profile when opening from ACR... and saving from Elements.
 
My wife says there is No green tint on any of these photos, when viewed on my ipad.
 
2nd one don't look green to me. First does. Monitor not calibrated though but just thought i'd let you know.

Gaz
 
Neither image is embedded with sRGB so there is a chance that different browsers will render these differently depending on how they handle non-tagged images.. this will vary no matter how well calibrated the viewer's equipment is, because it's down to the colour profile handling behaviour of the device/software displaying it.

Interesting article here...

http://cameratico.com/guides/web-browser-color-management-guide/

another interesting article on browser colour management here...

http://www.hudsondisplayservices.co.uk/iphone4


@OP.....

Save with sRGB embedded.
 
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Many thanks for the replies and Pookeyhead thanks for going to into much appreciated detail. I will revise all my workflow and see what results I get.
 
I export all my images from lightroom, if I work on them in elements 12, save as tiff file and then reopen in lightroom I set them up for export: Max quality, 300dpi, JPEG, sRGB. They are then saved into my pictures folder. When I then right click on the images to view properties I can' t see any mention of colour space/profile,recognition or representation? All the files are originally RAW
 
I don't think the profile information is displayed in the Windows properties display.

There's nothing you're doing to remove the colour profile. I notice it's hosted on here though. I hope TP isn't stripping the profile... that would be a really daft thing for a photography forum to do :)



Test image....





This was uploaded to my gallery.... it still has sRGB embedded, so it's nothing TP is doing.

RAW has no colour profile embedded, but you say you're setting Lightroom to embed sRGB, so whatever is going wrong is happening after lightroom, or you've set something wrong in your export settings in LR.

So you literally do nothing after Lightroom?
 
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I don't think the profile information is displayed in the Windows properties display.

There's nothing you're doing to remove the colour profile. I notice it's hosted on here though. I hope TP isn't stripping the profile... that would be a really daft thing for a photography forum to do :)



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This was uploaded to my gallery.... it still has sRGB embedded, so it's nothing TP is doing.

RAW has no colour profile embedded, but you say you're setting Lightroom to embed sRGB, so whatever is going wrong is happening after lightroom, or you've set something wrong in your export settings in LR.

So you literally do nothing after Lightroom?
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Nothing at all, I just export them as previously mentioned. Here is the image
 
I'll take a screen shot later this morning of the export menu an post on here.
 
That will help, thanks.


That last image you posted also has no profile embedded.
 
An again but this time with export options shown. this is starting to try me. where is my film camera?
 
Pookeyhead Pookeyhead Wherefore art thou Pookeyhead?
 
LOL.. been at work!!

I can see nothing wrong with your lightroom export settings. You have sRGB as colourspace. So once exported... that is LITERALLY all you do.. and then you uploaded it to the Talk Photography gallery?

I must say though... The screen grabs you posted are really tiny... not easy to read... but I can't see anything that should cause your images to have no profile.
 
If I look on an ipad app called exif view it does say the colour space is RGB not sRGB. I do nothing else after export they are just saved to my c drive and backed up in an external hard drive
 
How are you posting images in here?
They only show as thumbnails. It has to be part of the process you are using to attach them to the posts then. Why not host them somewhere, and just link to them? You can use the TP gallery for that like I did a few posts above.
 
It might be worthwhile forcible convertingb an image to sRGB then seeing what it looks like. The images you are posting (apart from the first one) look OK to me (calibrated screens).
The first image, looks like how one of my sets of prints turned out, when I set them to Adobe (the working space I worked in), and they ignored it and assumed sRGB.
In photoshop, I would do, Edit -> Convert to Profile (not assign to profile), and choose sRGB. The image would need to be in 8 bit mode first.
Then save the image.
IF this fixes the problem, then at least we have confirmed that somewhere the image is having the wrong profile set, and need to investigate further how you are uploading/saving them.
 
i've had a similar problem and found it to be a camera raw driver issue? my 6d didn't have drivers for camera raw on CS6 so had to download a newer camera raw version
 
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