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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · Problem with colors

Hi guys.
Long time since I posted something here - although I've been lurking almost every day.
Still blown away by the talent on here!

I've been editing some personal images from a trip I had yesterday with my kids.

On my monitor they look just fine colorwise.
When I afterwards looked at them on iPhone or iPad on Flickr they looked dull and colorless.

So now Im wondering if it's my monitor or the apple devices?

How do they colors look to you?

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Mar 02, 2014 at 07:12 AM

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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · Problem with colors

The links are not working and I'm not going to cut and paste them into my browser. You will get more response if you directly link the photos here.
Douglas

Mar 02, 2014 at 07:16 AM

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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · Problem with colors

douter wrote:
The links are not working and I'm not going to cut and paste them into my browser. You will get more response if you directly link the photos here.
Douglas

Sorry - they should be there now....

Mar 02, 2014 at 07:19 AM

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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · Problem with colors

Both photos -very nice BTW - are in the ProPhoto RGB color space. You need to convert them or resave them in the sRGB space.

Mar 02, 2014 at 08:11 AM

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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · Problem with colors

Hi bobrcw.
Thank you for the answer.

Find i strange since I have set my camera to sRGB.
Does anyone know why i suddently changes to ProPhoto RGB?

Mar 02, 2014 at 08:34 AM

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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · Problem with colors

How are you processing the images? If you're shooting RAW, you'll need to explicitly specify the color space when exporting.

Mar 02, 2014 at 10:38 AM

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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · Problem with colors

They look fine on my laptop (uncalibrated).

I always have my camera set to AdobeRGB, import them and work on them in AdobeRGB and only convert to sRGB when exporting for the web. That way you are utilising the larger colour space for processing and printing and only the web sized exports need to be in the more restricted sRGB colour space.

(I use LR5)

Andy

Mar 02, 2014 at 08:50 PM

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p.1 #8 · p.1 #8 · Problem with colors

Ah yes, the many troubles with different/limited colorspaces... Just wait until you try to download it from Flickr to your iPad. And then it changed again still when you take that same image and post it on Facebook. Or try to text the image to a friend. Everything gets converted and compressed and it ends up looking like crap.

I really like photoshops "export for web or devices" function and have been using that a lot lately. But I'm not sure, since I shoot in raw, which is the best method to get the image into photoshop. Been playing around with dng but then acr does weird things and makes it look strange compared to Lightroom. Psd seems to work the best but I think I'm losing some dynamic range/information along the way, which sucks because I love Lightroom for initial processing but I don't have enough processing power to use the adjustment brush that much and still export.

Mar 02, 2014 at 11:25 PM

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p.1 #9 · p.1 #9 · Problem with colors

HAHA @swordfishphoto - just yesterday I texted a photo to my girlfriend. It was NOT the same image at all!!! Man, it's so frustating.

I have not played around with it, to see which method works best.
I've found that doing the groundwork in LR and then exporting the tiff to PS.
Then you can fine tune and save the Full Size - still in Adobe RGB.

Then for the Web size one.
I use save for web - cross of "use sRGB" and resize to 960.
(960w is Facebook's max range)
Then save.
After that I reopen the image in PS and use a Unsharp Mask with
500
0,2
0

That works really well for me, and the image keeps looking sharp and crisp.
As much as it can on FB anyway

Mar 03, 2014 at 02:08 AM


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