Same Image, two different Looks

shatch

I have always had a difference between what I see in Photoshop or Lightroom and what I see when I upload to DGRIN. This photo just seemed more extreme than the others. The photo on the right is in Lightroom (TIF). I exported it from lightroom using sRGB 240 dpi then uploaded it to Smugmug. This graphic is a screen capture of the internet version (DGRIN) and Lightroom. What simple thing am I overlooking that is causing me this grief? Thank you in advance. :thumb

jfriend

shatch wrote:

I have always had a difference between what I see in Photoshop or Lightroom and what I see when I upload to DGRIN. This photo just seemed more extreme than the others. The photo on the right is in Lightroom (TIF). I exported it from lightroom using sRGB 240 dpi then uploaded it to Smugmug. This graphic is a screen capture of the internet version (DGRIN) and Lightroom. What simple thing am I overlooking that is causing me this grief? Thank you in advance.

This is odd. Usually, the explanation is that you're looking at the image on Smugmug on a non-color-managed browser and that's why the browser looks different than Lightroom.

But, I see from your screen shot that you are using Safari on a Mac which is the one shipping browser that is color-managed and should give the same look at Photoshop.

I found the dgrin posting you were talking about. I downloaded both the image from the dgrin posting and the original sized image from your gallery. Both look the same to me in Safari and both look the same in Photoshop and all look like the less colorful version that you show in your dgrin screenshot.

I can only come to the conclusion that something happened in the Lightroom export that isn't what you planned for. I think the image got changed at that step. Do you still have that image on disk? Can you load that from disk into Safari and see which one that looks like? You you import that one back into Lightroom and see which one it looks like in Lightroom?

shatch

jfriend wrote:

This is odd. Usually, the explanation is that you're looking at the image on Smugmug on a non-color-managed browser and that's why the browser looks different than Lightroom.

But, I see from your screen shot that you are using Safari on a Mac which is the one shipping browser that is color-managed and should give the same look at Photoshop.

I found the dgrin posting you were talking about. I downloaded both the image from the dgrin posting and the original sized image from your gallery. Both look the same to me in Safari and both look the same in Photoshop and all look like the less colorful version that you show in your dgrin screenshot.

I can only come to the conclusion that something happened in the Lightroom export that isn't what you planned for. I think the image got changed at that step. Do you still have that image on disk? Can you load that from disk into Safari and see which one that looks like? You you import that one back into Lightroom and see which one it looks like in Lightroom?

Thanks John for your research and efforts on this! I'll investigate your recommendation this weekend. Great sluthing, I think your analysis is correct.

Have a great weekend.

dandill

jfriend wrote:

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I found the dgrin posting you were talking about. I downloaded both the image from the dgrin posting and the original sized image from your gallery. Both look the same to me in Safari and both look the same in Photoshop and all look like the less colorful version that you show in your dgrin screenshot.

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I get the same results with Firefox on Windows. I wonder if the original, more colorful tiff has its colors clipped in export/conversion to sRGB. Would a way to check this be to load the tiff into Photoshop, and then use

View > Proof Setup > Custom > Device to Simulate: sRGB

and then toggling

View > Proof Colors

on and off, and using

View > Gamut Warning

on and off?

jfriend

dandill wrote:

I get the same results with Firefox on Windows. I wonder if the original, more colorful tiff has its colors clipped in export/conversion to sRGB. Would a way to check this be to load the tiff into Photoshop, and then use

View > Proof Setup > Custom > Device to Simulate: sRGB

and then toggling

View > Proof Colors

on and off, and using

View > Gamut Warning

on and off?

I also wondered if it could be an issue with the smaller color gamut of sRGB, but we can see a screen shot (in sRGB) that shows the original image colors just fine so I decided that's probably not it.

dandill

jfriend wrote:

I also wondered if it could be an issue with the smaller color gamut of sRGB, but we can see a screen shot (in sRGB) that shows the original image colors just fine so I decided that's probably not it.

OK. To sort out what is going on, what about exporting the image from Lightroom as a tiff in ProPhotoRGB, and then having a look at that in Photoshop, to see if it looks the same as it does in Lightroom. If it does not, that would localize the source of the problem to the export from Lightroom.

arodney

An untagged document that isn't in sRGB even on Safari would produce improper previews. A tagged image would not (untagged doc's in Safari are assumed to be in display RGB).

dandill

arodney wrote:

An untagged document that isn't in sRGB even on Safari would produce improper previews. A tagged image would not (untagged doc's in Safari are assumed to be in display RGB).

The image

http://tesseract.smugmug.com/photos/307558827_Ny9nK-L.jpg

seems to be tagged sRGB.

Cindy

Looks and sounds like your only exporting as sRGB. You need to first 'convert' from whatever color space to sRGB then export as sRGB (or whatever you converted to). If your not converting first try doing so as I believe that should fix your color issues.