My computer monitor displays what my SD card in my camera displays regarding color. I have calibrated my monitor and it is same as object's color and sd card.
But..and here's the problem...color is significantly different when displayed on my phone (android) and that's the version that also prints out on my home printer even though I am printing out from the computer. The phone and printer are over-saturated but match each other.
eg: flower is purple against brick-red background; smart card has accurate color; computer has accurate color. phone and print come out with fuchsia flower and bright orange background.
I'm assuming there is some code that needs adjustment, but I don't know where.
any ideas...I don't know where to start...
This sounds like it's likely that you're using something other than sRGB color space for your photos.
There are other alternatives, which are in some cases slightly better (such as AbobeRGB), but these can need embedded color profiles. As some browsers and printers can't read these it basically makes the colors a bit random in tone and saturation. (this page explains the differences http://regex.info/blog/photo-tech/color-spaces-page2 )
sRGB is the most widely understood by everything, especially printers, so using that will get you fairly consistent results. Your camera should have a selection for color space in the menus (I can't remember exactly where but it's fairly easy to find) as do most editing programs.
I'm not sure if this will help, but I had a similar problem earlier this year and it turns out that I had set photoshop to a different colour space (ProPhoto) to that on my camera.
I then checked and changed all of my colour space so that they are all in sRGB (as this is what my print shop prints in). Essentially I set
- My Camera
- Lightroom
- Photoshop
all to sRGB.
@miseria@joansmor@deborah63 Thanks so much...I've been able to check the camera setting and it is set to sRGB...now I have to figure out how to check the printer and as I have only been using google photos and Picasa to edit, will look for those settings too. Thank you for giving me direction.
.I 'll let uou know how it works once I figure all those out!!!
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There are other alternatives, which are in some cases slightly better (such as AbobeRGB), but these can need embedded color profiles. As some browsers and printers can't read these it basically makes the colors a bit random in tone and saturation. (this page explains the differences http://regex.info/blog/photo-tech/color-spaces-page2 )
sRGB is the most widely understood by everything, especially printers, so using that will get you fairly consistent results. Your camera should have a selection for color space in the menus (I can't remember exactly where but it's fairly easy to find) as do most editing programs.
I then checked and changed all of my colour space so that they are all in sRGB (as this is what my print shop prints in). Essentially I set
- My Camera
- Lightroom
- Photoshop
all to sRGB.
This fixed my problem
.I 'll let uou know how it works once I figure all those out!!!