Calibration and photoshop

[johnsilvia]

i recently performed monitor calibration with spyeder4pro.

The problem: on photoshop with my calibrated monitor the pictures looks worm and colorful on my iphone or ipad the same pictures looks cold and colorless - what am i doing wrong please help

 

[chrisix]

your phone has a different calibration
if you can't re-calibrate your phone, just re-calibrate your monitor the same way you have your phone

so, just put the same image on your phone as on your moniter, then calibrate till they match

 

[Tom Mann]

First, I suggest that you post an example photo to this thread -- ie, one that looks warm on your monitor and cool / bluish on your Apple devices. Some of us have fully profiled, stable systems with good monitors, and we can tell you how the image looks to us. If it looks cool, it may mean that your calibration either didn't work, or didn't "stick".

Be sure your example photo includes someone's face, is take outdoors in mid-day sunlight, and includes some sky, vegetation, and possibly other recognizable colors (eg, a bright red bus, a white shirt, etc.). Don't do any processing whatsoever - I want to see the image just as it came from the camera.

Second, check the color space of the photo that looked cool / colorless on your Apple devices. There is a possibility that it is in something other than sRGB. If so, I'm not sure if the Apple devices can handle it properly.

Third, I wouldn't do what Chris suggested. At this point, you have absolutely no idea of the source of the problem -- it could be a faulty calibrator, improper calibration technique, the calibration didn't "stick", the wrong color space to view in a browser, or viewing the Apple devices in too bright an environment, so they try to crank up the brighness and wash out the colors, or something else. The last thing you ever want to do is start adjusting your pix to display optimally on a device you aren't sure of.

Tom

 

[Tom Mann]

PS - All whites on my iPhone 4s (including non-photo backgrounds) are cooler than my calibrated, decent quality desktop monitor, and the built-in email client in the 4s absolutely does NOT handle Adobe RGB or ProPhoto RGB properly. Images in the latter two color spaces appear gray and unsaturated. It looks like the built-in email client simply is not color-managed.

Compare this to the major improvements in color management made by Firefox and the other major browsers in the last few years. Even IE has come around and now seems to sorta-kinda get it right (but I use it so little, I haven't checked in the last year).

Tom

 

[MikeMc]

PS - All whites on my iPhone 4s (including non-photo backgrounds) are cooler than my calibrated, decent quality desktop monitor, and the built-in email client in the 4s absolutely does NOT handle Adobe RGB or ProPhoto RGB properly. Images in the latter two color spaces appear gray and unsaturated. It looks like the built-in email client simply is not color-managed.

Compare this to the major improvements in color management made by Firefox and the other major browsers in the last few years. Even IE has come around and now seems to sorta-kinda get it right (but I use it so little, I haven't checked in the last year).

Tom

Thanks for that Tom !!

As I just got my 4s today