color

ladytx

I have a new monitor and have calibrated it with Sypder2 Express. Looks good in lightroom and CS2 but not out of those two work spaces. Photos look too red when I view them with Windows Explorer (Picture Viewer) and when I look at other peoples pictures here on smugmug they look too red. Now what? How do I get the pictures I process in lightroom and photoshop to match up when not viewed in those workspaces?

Here's one that matches up in lightroom and photoshop but not outside of those. How does it look to you?

glennp

I've noticed there has been discussion on this topic from time to time on other boards and it appears to me it's the way the different sites are set up with their color profiles. Most seems to be using sRGB or a variant and depending on how your output settings are could contribute to what you are seeing.

This is only my limited understanding. I seem to see this a lot here in the office from monitor to monitor as well, but that's more a calibration issue.

As far as the example you have provided, I do not see the over abundance of red, Looks pretty good to me. I'm viewing on a Toshiba laptop.

glenn

Shima

glennp wrote:

I've noticed there has been discussion on this topic from time to time on other boards and it appears to me it's the way the different sites are set up with their color profiles. Most seems to be using sRGB or a variant and depending on how your output settings are could contribute to what you are seeing.

This is only my limited understanding. I seem to see this a lot here in the office from monitor to monitor as well, but that's more a calibration issue.

As far as the example you have provided, I do not see the over abundance of red, Looks pretty good to me. I'm viewing on a Toshiba laptop.

glenn

It's not just the web sites, usually it's also the web browsers that use different color profiles to render sites as well. That being said, sRGB is the most common, so that's what I do all my photos in on Lightroom and Photoshop to stay consistent to what they're going to look like when I upload them to smugmug later.

ladytx

Thanks for the replies.

I exported from Lightroom as jpg, srgb and also saved that way from Photoshop

Ed911

I have made that same statement in the last two weeks on this formum...you pull a pic...fix it in CS3 and repost it here and it looks too red...or too saturated.

I sometimes wonder what we are telling people when we look at their photos here and make suggestions about how to improve the color in them...

I find that Photoshop SRGB colors match what I see from the printer, at least so far.

roentarre

Great photograph!