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Processed photo not looking same in Photoshop as in CO

Sigurdur Gilbertsson
I am fairly new to Capture One and I must say that I absolutely love this software. However I am trying to figure out why I don't see the same results after processing a photo, it looks different when I open the processed JPG or 16bit TIFF in Photoshops as I see on screen in Capture One.

Screenshot from Capture One:
http://i.imgur.com/2Vymli0.png

Screenshot from Photoshop:
http://i.imgur.com/oiuGOWi.png

The colors look more saturated when looking at it in Capture One and more pleasing...

What am I missing ? 😕
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  • lewisl
    A somewhat complicated question.

    Have you setup color calibration in Photoshop to "match" C1? That's sort of tricky as C1 does color calibration under the hood while Photoshop is more explicit about various config. choices for color management and screen profile.

    One possibility would be to compare soft-proofs using the exact same printer profile in both apps. If the soft proof looks the same then both applications are starting from the same point.
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  • Sigurdur Gilbertsson
    [quote="lewisl" wrote:
    A somewhat complicated question.

    Have you setup color calibration in Photoshop to "match" C1? That's sort of tricky as C1 does color calibration under the hood while Photoshop is more explicit about various config. choices for color management and screen profile.

    One possibility would be to compare soft-proofs using the exact same printer profile in both apps. If the soft proof looks the same then both applications are starting from the same point.


    Thank you for your suggestions. And no, I have not setup any color calibration in Photoshop to "match" C1 and I am not even sure about how to even go about doing that...

    But I find it very strange that the processed image does not look the same as it does on screen in C1 after it is exported, I would think it should look exactly the same when processed out as an image.

    So I am still very confused about this ☚ī¸
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  • Sigurdur Gilbertsson
    So there is no one with any magic solution for this then ? 😁
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  • HansB
    [quote="siggibg" wrote:
    So there is no one with any magic solution for this then ? 😁


    Sorry, no magic solution. I never noticed such a difference here on exporting from CO into PS or Affinity Photo.

    What's your source file and output recipe?

    I tried to reproduce it with one of my images, CO (Canon RAW) and PS (16 bit tiff export) side-by-side, but again saw no difference. Then I zoomed in to 400% on CO and PS, took screenshots of both, opened the screenshots in PS, zoomed in again, and compared some color samples. The maximum difference was an RGB of (0,1,1), (1,0,1) or (1,1,0). Something I cannot see when putting the images side-by-side. Maybe an effect of on-the-fly screen rendering vs output rendering. Or one using round() and the other int() when rendering for the screen, I don't know. But it's insignificant.

    Maybe you can check the following in CO:

    Menu - 'View' - 'Proof Profile', set to 'Selected recipe' or a specific selection?
    If specific, is Output Tab - 'Process Recipe' - 'ICC Profile' the same?
    If not specific, are Output Tab - 'Process Recipes' multiple recipes selected, with different ICC profiles?

    And in PS:

    Menu - 'Edit' 'Convert to Profile', is the source profile the one you exported?


    Regards,
    Hans
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