MadisonEtherington
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I’m shooting with a Nikon D610, and a Nikkor 50mm f/1.8. I shoot in RAW in the Adobe RGB (1998) color space (as opposed to sRGB).
I import my photos through Lightroom, and from there open them in Photoshop CS6, and edit them.
In the past, I’ve had the issue of my edited images that look good on my computer (MacBook Pro), once uploaded to the web, whether it be Flickr, Twitter, Tumblr or even just emailed to my phone (iPhone 6), look awful.
I read up some on the issue before deciding to post it here, and came to understand (correct me if I’m wrong) that iOS system is just not color managed. That would make sense, as I saved a PSD without embedding ProPhoto RGB, and when opened, the file looked the same way it did when I looked at it on my phone.
That’s not really the issue though, my issue is after realizing the difference in photo from MacBook to iPhone, I’m worried that I’m not editing my pictures properly, so they are displaying incorrectly on other people’s computers.
By default, when I open an image in Photoshop and go to “view->proof setup” it is selected at “Working CMYK”. I changed that to “sRGB” and the picture changed and looked awful, the same way it looks on my phone.
I’m not sure if these screenshots will show up the way they do on my computer, but I figured it’s better to include them and try and make someone else’s job easier than not include them at all.
CMYK Screenshot:
sRGB Screenshot:
From there, I knew my issue was the color profile, but I had no idea how to fix it. So I tried opening up the original image.
I then went to “view->proof setup->custom->Adobe RGB (1998)” with “preserve RGB numbers” checked and the image looked closer to the way I saw it straight out of the camera, but darker, unsaturated, and more contrast.
I tried it with the same image that I had edited, it made it look the way it did on my phone; greenish, dark, and bland.
I then tried switching the unedited version to “Web-Standard sRGB” and it didn’t work that way for either image, the edited or the unedited.
The first photo on the left is the original RAW image, opened directly into Photoshop, under Photoshop-default Working CMYK color profile, the other two are the same image, just with different color profiles selected as described above.
My question is, am I editing my pictures wrong? Should I be editing in a different color setting? Do I have to begin opening my images up with a color profile like Adobe RGB or sRGB and go from there? Because that seems like an awful lot more work than it should be.
Other people don't seem to have this issue, as I can go onto other people's Flickr pages and see images on my computer that look exactly the same as they did on my phone, and vice versa. That is true for any other photo-sharing website. I'm just confused as to what to do from here.
I want my images to look the same on my computer as they do on my phone and someone else’s computer and their buddy’s phone, too! Obviously, within reason, because every device is different, and not every monitor is calibrated and things, but I’d like them to look relatively the same.
I know this is a lot longer than most people would like to read, but I would greatly appreciate any help I can get.
Thank you in advance.
I import my photos through Lightroom, and from there open them in Photoshop CS6, and edit them.
In the past, I’ve had the issue of my edited images that look good on my computer (MacBook Pro), once uploaded to the web, whether it be Flickr, Twitter, Tumblr or even just emailed to my phone (iPhone 6), look awful.
I read up some on the issue before deciding to post it here, and came to understand (correct me if I’m wrong) that iOS system is just not color managed. That would make sense, as I saved a PSD without embedding ProPhoto RGB, and when opened, the file looked the same way it did when I looked at it on my phone.
That’s not really the issue though, my issue is after realizing the difference in photo from MacBook to iPhone, I’m worried that I’m not editing my pictures properly, so they are displaying incorrectly on other people’s computers.
By default, when I open an image in Photoshop and go to “view->proof setup” it is selected at “Working CMYK”. I changed that to “sRGB” and the picture changed and looked awful, the same way it looks on my phone.
I’m not sure if these screenshots will show up the way they do on my computer, but I figured it’s better to include them and try and make someone else’s job easier than not include them at all.
CMYK Screenshot:
sRGB Screenshot:
From there, I knew my issue was the color profile, but I had no idea how to fix it. So I tried opening up the original image.
I then went to “view->proof setup->custom->Adobe RGB (1998)” with “preserve RGB numbers” checked and the image looked closer to the way I saw it straight out of the camera, but darker, unsaturated, and more contrast.
I tried it with the same image that I had edited, it made it look the way it did on my phone; greenish, dark, and bland.
I then tried switching the unedited version to “Web-Standard sRGB” and it didn’t work that way for either image, the edited or the unedited.
The first photo on the left is the original RAW image, opened directly into Photoshop, under Photoshop-default Working CMYK color profile, the other two are the same image, just with different color profiles selected as described above.
My question is, am I editing my pictures wrong? Should I be editing in a different color setting? Do I have to begin opening my images up with a color profile like Adobe RGB or sRGB and go from there? Because that seems like an awful lot more work than it should be.
Other people don't seem to have this issue, as I can go onto other people's Flickr pages and see images on my computer that look exactly the same as they did on my phone, and vice versa. That is true for any other photo-sharing website. I'm just confused as to what to do from here.
I want my images to look the same on my computer as they do on my phone and someone else’s computer and their buddy’s phone, too! Obviously, within reason, because every device is different, and not every monitor is calibrated and things, but I’d like them to look relatively the same.
I know this is a lot longer than most people would like to read, but I would greatly appreciate any help I can get.
Thank you in advance.
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