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Advice on color management across different devices (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by falkerie71@sh.itjust.works to c/photography@lemmy.world

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I'm frustrated about color consistency between programs and devices, making color management so hard to do across platforms. My camera shows a different color to my phone, which shows a different color to my PC. Even on PC alone, the color in the editing program is different to the photo preview software and browser. How do you guys manage this? I'm aware that the Apple ecosystem does a better job at color consistency across devices, and I'm very jealous of that.

My devices include a Fujifilm camera, Google Pixel, Windows PC with non-calibrated LCD monitor, and a Windows laptop with OLED monitor (was factory calibrated, but I lost the file after a system wipe, so not sure anymore). Softwares on PC include Fujifilm X RAW studio, Affinity Photo 2, Photoshop, FastStone viewer, and Firefox (primary browser). Should I stick to the OLED laptop for editing instead?

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[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You need to calibrate only the screen where you do your color editing.

In addition, you may want to calibrate your other screens where you watch your products.

Any errors on any input devices do not matter anymore after you have done your editing.

Any errors on any other output devices do not matter when they belong to other people. People are used to watch colors with these errors on their devices (or they may calibrate them).

[–] falkerie71@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

Thanks. I also asked around my friend group, and they have said similar things. There's not a lot you can do concerning color reproduction across devices, they sometimes even edit two versions, one for PC/storage, one for phone/social media. Other than that, it's a lost cause.

So I guess the problem now boils down to color consistency in the same device across programs. Particularly on PC. I know that having a calibrated monitor is one major step, but what settings to tick and color space conversions in various programs are what's bothering me. Like, one photo imported from my phone can look desaturated in one program, over saturated in the other, and have a different blue tone in a third. Which version should I edit in? I'm only sticking to shooting in sRGB mode on my camera now to minimize headaches, but just wondering what else I could do.