Why is there a colour shift on export?

Eveytime I export from Premiere CC 2014, I get a colour shift. Why does my output look different than my program monitor?

It would be handy to know the gear you're running. That can make a HUGE difference. For absolute top work, yes ... a fully calibrated commercial TV b-cast monitor through the appropriate output device is recommended. And if you are going to be delivering b-cast level work, you need that kind of gear.
For many of the rest of us, one of the better computer monitors with a good calibration setup & routine can get us by. I've got a Dell U23HM I think it is as my "main" and an HP as my secondary, calibrated with an i1 Display puck/software to REC709. I've not done any (nor expect to) b-cast work, but I've delivered to quite a few clients via DVD & on-line and I've never had a complaint. I've viewed my output on many different tv sets via DVD, and various color-managed & non-managed computers. My stuff plays very well on all but the worst setup TV's, and pretty good on most computers. There are of course tv's & computers that are so out of whack you cannot create "pretty" for them. Don't worry about it.
But ... at the least ... you need your OWN setup to be best-calibrated you can get it. Pay through the nose to upgrade when you can.
And give us the data I'd asked for earlier so we've got a clue about *your* situation and therefore can give educated guesses rather than generalizations about color management.
Neil

Similar Messages

Colour shift when exporting from lightroom 5 into Photoshop CS6

Hi there,
Having a really weird problem in Lightroom/Photoshop that no amount of Googling can seem to fix.
When I grade an image for colour in lightroom, and then use the "edit in" function to send the file to Photoshop, the file is a completely different colour.
Here's an example:
I'm using SRGB for both Lightroom and Photoshop, and the "preserve embedded profiles" is selected for RGB, CMYK, and gray.
If anyone can shed some light on this, it would be great. I don't want to have to use ProPhotoRGB, because most of my work is delivered online.
Thanks in advance
John

I am also having this issue with the "Merge to HDR Pro" function in both LR5.2 and PSCC. When the image is viewed at 50% image size in the HDR app everything appears fine. However, once you start to zoom in the image begins to crop out segements starting on the right hand side. See the screen shots below:
Image at 50%
Image at 66%
Image at 100%
MacBook Pro 2.7 GHz Intel Core i7 16GB RAM 512GB SSD (early 2013) NVidia GT650M Mac OS X 10.9

Why is there jumping between shots after exporting to quicktime from FCP7?

Working in FCP7, after exporting a self contained quicktime, there is jumping between shots. I tried to remove the transitions, rerendered then re exported but the jumping is still there. I can't figure out what's going on as it's not happening on all the sequence. Please help!!

Hi Kippybop - sorry to hear you sharing this problem, but nope....still not sorted.
So far I've got all the frame rates matching sequence settings. I've done two exports with and without transitions and there is still jumping between shots - however, it does seem to be shorter without the transition. So whatever the problem is, is something to do with the beginning and end of clips and is made worse, and extended by adding transitions - but this doesn't apply to all clips which is really baffling.
I've also made a new sequence and copied the original clips from the problematic sequence - still no change. So the only impovement is the removal of video transitions, which is not exactly ideal. I can watch the jumpy .mov on the 'finder' viewer full screen with no jumping, but all other media players show glitches between clips.
I've done a grab of a clip and the sequence settings, which I think are correct, but please if there are any generous FCP7 experts reading, any suggestions are very much appreciated...

Why is there a color shift in attached email images?

I'm new to Firefox. I'm using a Mac OS 10.6.8. When I attach a B&W image file in my email account, and I view what I've sent the color shifts to a cyan instead of remaining neutral B&W in the original image. I've also tried to attach it in another email account, with the same results. However, when I open the image in another browser it appears as the original B&W is. Why is this happening?

It could that a color profile is present that Firefox doesn't support.
You can modify gfx.color_management.enablev4* prefs on the about:config page and possibly enable ICC V4 support in Firefox.
Close and restart Firefox to make the changes effective.
* http://cameratico.com/guides/firefox-color-management/
*[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=999600 bug 999600] - Turn on full color management to match Chrome/IE
Please do not comment in bug reports https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html
You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar.
You can accept the warning and click "I'll be careful" to continue.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/about:config

Why are there multi coloured lines on my screen that won't go away?

My ipod touch has frozen with multi coloured lines that are flickering and it won't let me turn it off or do anything and it doesn't register when plugged into itunes. Is there a way to fix it?

Let the battery full drain. After charging for at least an hour try again. Include thises suggestions as necessary.
iOS: Not responding or does not turn on
If still problem time for an appointment at the gensiu Bar of an Apple store.

Why is there extra white space after exporting to JPEG?

After exporting an *.ai file to jpeg using 150 ppi and 5 for compression, I have extra white space below the artwork. This has happened in two files after exporting.

Urthie,
What about the Artboard, is that aligned to the Pixel Grid (it is if the size is a whole number of points/pixels and one corner is at X=Y=0 or another set of integer values, otherwise not)?
Edit: Cross posting.
Congratulations, some things are difficult to spot (and guess for others); your finding the solution is the best happy ending.

Aperture Export colour shift

Hello,
I am so frustrated with Aperture. I used it to make a lot of adjustments to my RAW files, and then exported them to jpg for submission to a competition. The colour shifts is astonishing -- all of the colour in the jpgs is super saturated compared to viewing the edited version in Aperture. What am I doing wrong?

I am asking for settings in Aperture that will more accurately represent, when I'm viewing and editing, what the exported file will look like, or a setting that will make the exported file look more like what I'm seeing in Aperture. I can't be the first and only person to have this problem.
You are not the first person to have problems configuring ICC colour matching sessions (ColourWorlds) for compatible assumptions, which is why the place to begin to try to help you is to try to provide you with the first principles.
In order to help you beyond that point, you would want to provide information about how you have configured Aperture and how you have configured the application or applications to which you are comparing the colour appearance formed in Aperture.
Providing information on first principles is not patronizing you, it is simply providing information on first principles.
/hh

Why have all my Lightroom and Photoshop files just developped an awful colour shift? how do I correc

Why have all my Lightroom and Photogshop files suddenly developped an awful colour shift when they did not have this a week ago? I can open them in other applications and they view correctly. How can I correct this in Lightroom? HELP urgent!!

Antonia,
Probably your monitor profile is corrupt.
If you're on Windows, see here:
http://www.lightroomforums.net/showthread.php?14070-How-to-assign-an-sRGB-ICC-Profile-to-y our-monitor-%28Windows%29
If you're on a Mac, you'll need to try something similar to set your monitor profile to sRGB. NOTE: this is merely a temporary fix. You need to acquire a hardware calibrator (decent ones can be had for around $100) and calibrate your monitor with it.
Hal

Colour shift problem in CS5 not in Lightroom

Hi Guys,
This is a long post but to save time Ill try to explain my setup and my problem which has only started in the last three weeks. My setup: Win Xp pro SP3 fully updated on a well speced dell machine/ Lightroom 3 (v 33 v 711369) Cs5 (latest version). Fully self profiled (I write my own profiles using xRite Pulse) printing through QImage to Epson 7880. I have been using PS since v5 (approx 10 years) and Cap1 and then lightroom since it came out.
My workflow is simple: Import Nikon D3 raw files to Lightroom, Using either acr or more recently (maybe one change I have made!) Camera standard calibration. Colour correct crop etc and export an adobe RGB jpeg export setting below: Hi Guys,
This is a long post but to save time Ill try to explain my setup and my problem which has only started in the last three weeks. My setup: Win Xp pro SP3 fully updated on a well speced dell machine/ Lightroom 3 (v 33 v 711369) Cs5 (latest version). Fully self profiled (I write my own profiles using xRite Pulse) printing through QImage to Epson 7880. I have been using PS since v5 (approx 10 years) and Cap1 and then lightroom since it came out.
My workflow is simple: Import Nikon D3 raw files to Lightroom, Using either acr or more recently (maybe one change I have made!) Camera standard calibration. Colour correct crop etc and export an adobe RGB jpeg export setting below: Hi Guys,
This is a long post but to save time Ill try to explain my setup and my problem which has only started in the last three weeks. My setup: Win Xp pro SP3 fully updated on a well speced dell machine/ Lightroom 3 (v 33 v 711369) Cs5 (latest version). Fully self profiled (I write my own profiles using xRite Pulse) printing through QImage to Epson 7880. I have been using PS since v5 (approx 10 years) and Cap1 and then lightroom since it came out.
My workflow is simple: Import Nikon D3 raw files to Lightroom, Using either acr or more recently (maybe one change I have made!) Camera standard calibration. Colour correct crop etc and export an adobe RGB jpeg export setting below:
NB Also set to do nothing after export!
All good so far. Colours on my profiled monitor are good. If I then print this file through Q image all is good (and this is most of my files!) . Happy days! However if I open in CS5 (Colour settings below-which have not changed for 10 years!) the colour changes. I am getting no profile mismatch warning (I shouldn’t – file is adobe rgb which is my working space). But there is a noticeable colour shift. If I do nothing to the file and resave the colour has shifted. I have tried opening a file/ saving with a different file name and printing the two on the same sheet of paper to eliminate printer issues – the shift that I see on my monitor is there. Why would opening an Adobe RGB jpeg in CS5 change its colour? It certainly never happened before. Also if within Lightroom I click “edit in PS”, open the file and resave the colour has shifted..
((I have also tried preserve embedded profile but this doesn’t solve the issue!)
My workaround is to do lightroom conversion, (colour correct!), Open and edit in CS5 (colour shift) save as different file name, Import into Lightroom (Now says embedded profile (This is correct I think) Do nothing in terms of colour (which now looks correct again!) and export (Wow Correct colour Again!!)
Does anybody know what is going on??
I have used half a roll of paper doing test prints and have established the following:
My monitor profile is correct, (What I see is what I get!)
QImage setting & My printer profile is correct ( What I see is what I get! By printing the two files on the same sheet (this will eliminate printer issues) I can see the CS5 file is very different - as on the monitor)
All lightroom exports are correct (what I see is what I get!)
I also opened a file on CS3 (across a network to a non colour managed machine but with adobe rgb work space, did nothing with the file but resave and the colours shift again!
I attach samples below: The difference reminds me of what an Adobe RGB file looks like on a non colour managed monitor – Flatter (no punch) but also a slightly green
Any Help would be much appreciated!
Thanks, Nigel
NB Also set to do nothing after export!

Very generally, they both describe profiles. ICC is the standard International Color Consortium format for profiles and ICM is Microsoft's flavor (standing for Integrated Color Management, I believe).
Photoshop et. al. are able to use both, but even a name match wouldn't mean the contents are identical. There is some possibility that they actually are equivalent under the covers in this case, and that my spotting the slight difference in names isn't the source of the visible color differences. It is almost certainly why the warning message is being emitted, though.
These may help further with definitions, but are not light reading by any means:
http://www.color.org/iccprofile.xalter
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg487495
-Noel

Photoshop to Lightroom Colour Shift

Hi all,
I've recently upgraded from CS5 to CC after purchasing a Nikon D7100 over christmas and thus needing the latest versions fro RAW support (Nikon NEF).
My problem is I am experiencing colour shift between Photoshop and Lightroom after upgrading. I have set Lightroom to use 16-bit ProPhoto RGB images when editing in Photoshop. My computer is a Late 2012 MacMini with an Apple Thunderbolt Display.
I originally posted this in the Photoshop forum and have moved it over here after being recommended to do so.
The image below shows the problem, where the colour is correct in Photoshop, but not in Lightroom.
In the other thread we went through the motions and eliminated:
D7100 Camera Raw Profile
Lens profile
Screen calibration and profile
It seems most likely at this point that Lightroom is applying some kind of alterations to the image settings. If I Right Click a problem image in lightroom and say "edit in photoshop with lightroom adjustments" that colours appear incorrect in photoshop, too.
Can anyone make any suggestions here? I can't seem to get anything I shot last weekend out of lightroom with the correct colours!
Thanks,
Dan.

A “raw” HDR image has darks that are too dark to see detail in and lights that are too bright to see any detail in. The process of “tone mapping” is what scrunches all the floating point values into the normal range of black to white. Once an image is tone mapped its pixel values all fall into the range of zero to whatever the maximum value is for white in a 16-bit or 8-bit format and it can be saved as such. The 32-bit floating point image is supposed to be temporary on the way to an 8- or 16-bit image. Personally I save the original 32-bit image in a separate file from the tone-mapped 16- or 8-bit image so I can always go back and revisit the tone mapping operation.
LR supports 32-bit images otherwise you would see nothing. Here is a discussion about why things look different that includes Eric Chan, an Adobe Raw Engineer, to someone bringing up a similar concern a little over a year ago:
ttp://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/lightroom_preview_of_hdr_tonemapped_i mage_doesnt_match_what_is_shown_in_photoshop_acr
It used to be that Photoshop was the only Adobe product that could open 32-bit files and tone-map them to 16- or 8-bits and I would argue that it did an unsatisfying job. Eventually this capability was added to LR and the ACR plug-in for Photoshop which does a better job, but being raw converters, the starting point looks brighter on screen.
Photomatix is a payfor product that also does a good job with both merging and tone-mapping to 16- or 8-bits. It comes with both a standalone and a plug-in interface. There are others, but Photomatix is the one I’ve tried in the past.

Work area colours different to exported colours?

I have a wierd problem. When working within photoshop i can choose colours that i want but they show up a bit lighter on the screen in the work area, and when i click to export or save as the colours are shown a little darker and more saturated.
The colours on the export are actually the right shade, so they must be showing wrong within photoshop while i work on a document. I've never had this propblem in any other version of photoshop, only CS5 and i'm wondering if there is some setting or somehting i can change to have the colours be the same on export and while i'm working on the document, because it's very frustrating when the colours i picked turn out to be different when i save an image.
Could someone please help me?

It sounds as though the problems you are describing are rooted within the fact that Photoshop is a color managed application, and (depending on settings) will respond to the color profile of the image and the color profile of your monitor. To achieve the behavior you want (things not appearing unexpectedly different) we kind of need more info...
What are your Color preferences (Edit - Color Settings...).
What color profile(s) accompany the images you edit (i.e., where do you get them, how do you open them).
What operating system are you running?
What video interface (make/model/drivers) are you using?
Have you calibrated your monitor?
What are your goals (e.g., see the same thing on the monitor as Internet Explorer, or another app)?
Take heart: Photoshop can be set up to deliver consistent, expected results per your goals, and it will help to understand why you're seeing what you're seeing.
-Noel

CS5 Save as Jpeg gives colour shift - OK as PSD/Tiff

Hi Guys,
This is a follow on from the "lightroom /CS5 colour shift post" which I have now narrowed down to the following:
I use Win XP pro sp3 fully updated, Dell PC 4GB Ram, LR and CS5 both latest versions. Print through Qimage to epson 7880 - Workflow/ monitor all fully colour profiled. Workspace adobe 1998
Colour setting:
These settings have not changed in years.
My issue is that if I open a jpeg image in CS5 (colour is correct), save as psd or tiff (the colour is correct)
BUT if I save as jpeg (having done nothing to the file!) the colour on the saved file has shifted
I am not getting any profile mismatch warnings - this problem has only surfaced in the last few weeks.
Any ideas would be much appreciated
Thanks, Nigel

Hi again, Sorry had a busy weekend so I had
to disappear! Ok Firstly I cannot understand why a monitor profile could
be the culprit (just to rehash I develop a jpe
g in LR (colour is good, Print is good) Op
en in Cs5 colour looks same. If I save as PSD or Tiff Colour stays the same and prints same - Happy days!
But If I save as a jpeg (with or without a file number change the colour looks ok in CS. BUT when I close it & open it again in CS the colour has shifted. Also this shift is clearly visible in LR and QImage and in the print! It seems to me that the save as jpeg is the problem.
But just in case I reprofiled the monitor this morning (Eye1 display2) but problem is the same.
It has been suggested to me that the best thing to do is to reload CS5 might cure this. Any thoughts?
Also if i do that (I am on upgrades since v5 missing only CS4) Is there a way to skip loading all the versions?
Thanks Nigel

Big Color Shift between exported H264 mp4 and Program Monitor

I get a big Color Shift between exported H264 mp4 on Vimeo/Youtube and Quicktime X and Program Monitor.
There are quite a few posts on Quicktime gamma issues, but there seem to be no solutions and the other editors I know don't seem to have this problem.
I know there will be a bit of a shift but this is MASSIVE. At the moment I add a whole extra adjustment layer to all my clips to get it approximately right, but ofcourse this does not solve the issue nor does it give proper results.
Please do not reply with the "You need a real reference monitor via SDI etc etc ..."
By my logic on the same screen the program monitor should resemble what is going to be the final result in a relevant player like Quicktime X which all normal apple consumers use to watch their films. I know VLC and Mpeg streamclip gives different results, but mostly when playing Quicktime/h264 files Quicktime will play it thus average users ( the people I'd like to downwload/buy my films )will watch it in Quicktime.
Furthermore, Quicktime X's gamma/color looks very similar to the image I get on Youtube or Vimeo - which is where all my current work is going. I'm not outputting to boradcast or DVD etc.
Strangely enough the MPEG 2 stuff I've done for DVD matches the Youtube output with the Program monitor.
What am I doing wrong?
I have a Dell 2711 wide Gamut Display which is calibrated with an SPyder 3 Elite using its full colour gamut ( close to 90% of Adobe RGB - thus bigger than sRGB or Rec709) Could Premiere be ignoring the calibration in the Program monitor and making the image values 16-235 and then Quicktime uses all values 0-255? If so, how can I fix this?
Any help will be much appreciated!

I know this has been a while so hopefully you found some help by now, but maybe this will help anyone stumbling across this.
What people seem to be missing in what you are asking is... this is the same file, on the same monitor, but with a different appearance in different software. It is not a question of whether the overall monitoring is GOOD, and it is not a matter of hardware settings (as that would most likely propogate across all software) it is that it is not CONSISTENT side by side on the very same monitor.
I had very similar issues that really seemed to get worse when we got new monitors, which is what lead me to chime in here. The monitors were also wide gamut displays.
The problem is likely this...
1. The difference being shown are the difference between software that properly color manages (i.e. Premier or After Effects) and software that does not (i.e. Quicktime or some web browsers)
2. The reason it is so severe is that the wide gamut monitors are able to show many more colors and thus the difference between the managed and unmanaged software is much more exagerrated than on regular gamut monitors.
I found this great link that helped calm my nerves and helped me get handle on much of what is going on.
http://www.artstorm.net/journal/2009/07/color-management-wide-gamut-dell-2408/
Now that is not to say that the 0-255/16-235 issue is not also involved here. It is definitely possible that a specific codec or compressor is part of the problem, but it sounds like it starts with the color management issue first.
I hope this helps.
Andy

Dng colour shift from bridge to jpg's....cs2

Hello everyone. I am very new at this so I really hope that someone can help me.
I have a new eos 5 mark 11.
I use cs2 which doesn't recognise the RAW images. I have downloaded dng and started colour correction in bridge.
I have saved the files as jpg's but........ there is a huge colour shift. They look terrible.
What am I doing wrong?? please help.

I'm trying to figure out the same thing. As far i discovered that Photoshop as default display images without any proofing. Fax viewer in windows is color managed (at least in theory). That's why adobe created sRGB (for viewing on screen).
Try to turn on proof colors (ctrl + y) and set it to monitor RGB. This will show you your terrible jpg's in PS.
Saved jpg's in PS looks brighter, but less vivid.
RAW (converted or not) files saved as jpg's look far worse (terrible, as you said) in windows fax viewer, but I don't know why. Try to compare it, shooting RAW + jpg. Jpg's looks ok (better in bridge), RAWs looks ok in PS, but after saveing them as jpgs... (without proofing) they are so bad! RAW are great, but sometimes it's pointless to shoot in RAWs, becaouse you will have a lot of work to develop good settings. This drives me crazy , when jpg from camera looks better than RAW file (no correction).
You can show bad jpgs as good jpgs in web using photoshop express gallery (I gues it uses same engine as PS and Bridge)

Colour shifted in iPad vs MacPro/MacBook Pro 17

I had created CMYK file in Adobe Illustrator CS6 for business card/logo, etc. I placed the Ai file into InDesign CS6 business card document (two pages).
Then output the InDesign business card document as high quality print PDF. Just out of my curious, I opened the CMYK print file on my iPad 2, and noticed quickly that the colour shifted sightly on iPad 2 as opposed on MacBook Pro 17 unibody and Mac Pro - 12 core.
I suspect that it has a lot to do with CMYK color management setting on InDesign's preflight export to PDF?
Just tell me what exactly did I do wrong? Am I assuming the color shift is because of CMYK is not interpreted properly on iPad, only RGB, correct?
Thanks for some help and feedback. And please confirm this if I am assume wrong or right. And tell me why I think wrong. Or if I am right, or both ways? So I can troubleshoot in the right approach.
Look forward to hear some perspective. Have a good one.
Best, Brian

Rob,
Once again, I appreciate your insight perspective on more technical side of specific ICC profile workflow and PDF outputing workflow. I have jotted that down on my Moleskine workbook notes.
As for calibration app for iPad or iPhone or similar smartphone and tablet products, I agree with you on what you said. I don't think it is feasible thing, because Peter, yourself and I know that not all iPhone or iPad customers are colour management savvy as we are. On this regard, it is beyond what we can control over.
Again, thanks again for thoughtful perspective and discussion. Keep on coming up with more perspective and tips, I look forward to get most out of this particular more-technical workflow.
In the business card project itself has no photo file, just basic graphic design/logo - three colours.
As for digital photographic workflow, I certainly do know about ProPhotoRGB.icc profile as I use it religiously then covert to more appropriate output for web or print, etc. Of course, each specialized photo paper has the manufacturer's specific print profile assigned for EACH product. That is the whole other different story.
Anyway, thanks again for all you do...
Brian

Why is there a colour shift on export?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for