Not sure if anyone else has this problem but I use three computers plus my cell phone to look at and post photos here. The exposure is different on all of them. Worse than that I look at the photo on 365 and when I go to edit in PicMonkey the exposure is lighter. It is disappointing when the details are lost because the exposure is too dark or blown out. Any tips on how to control this? Is there a standard somewhere?
The differences are more likely attributable to the different screens on which you're viewing the pictures. Different monitors and screens use different colour palettes and resolutions, and thus render images differently.
A couple of years ago, there was a very long and informative post on this forum describing this in a lot more detail than I am able to. I shall try to look that up (assuming posts that old are still accessible!) and post a link here.
Calibrate/adjust your monitors is all I can suggest. Color problems/differences are usually due to color space mismatches (sRGB for computer and internet viewing). With varying quality monitors and cell phones, I would expect variation unless you have them set to show the same.
@manek43509 That was a good thread. Little more complicated than my concerns. I was glad to hear what he said about HP laptops because that is what I have been working on recently and it is way off compared to my other monitors. I was just hoping there might be some sort of standard out there for settings for people who do a lot of photography. @frankhymus thanks I will check on the sRGB.
@bsheppard I found if you resize your images to 1024 on the long side of the image it will help you keep the correct colours of your edited image, if you upload a 8mb JPEG the 365 filters adjust and resize your image not to the correct colours and exposure of what you edited your original image at. Dam them 365 filters!!!!!
@bsheppard I've found the same thing. Pictures I upload to 365 look darker when viewed on my computer than they do when opened directly in that same computer.
This is down to the monitors. They are all different. They need to be set to the same workspace, then calibrated and colour profiled. There are various devices on the market that will do this on PCs (I personally use an X-rite i1Pro2), but I'm not sure if you can calibrate a phone screen. I would only ever use a phone for checking content, never colour
I have also noticed differences. There is a huge difference between what I see on the lap top and what I see on the phone. I recently started to print out the image to see what it looks like. If it looks good in print than its good. I often return to fix things after printing. Its working for me. @frankhymus I calibrated when I was using the big momma computer, but it never dawned on me to calibrate this here lap top. I just might do that!
Thanks to @brianarmoured for asking the question. I've noticed the same thing. I'm going to have to figure out how to resize images ( @simon0128 ). Look forward to more exploration, Luckily my computers seem to be the same.
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A couple of years ago, there was a very long and informative post on this forum describing this in a lot more detail than I am able to. I shall try to look that up (assuming posts that old are still accessible!) and post a link here.
http://365project.org/discuss/general/8396/colour-spaces-rant-alert
@frankhymus thanks I will check on the sRGB.
It's not a big deal, but it's not just a screen thing.