Losing warmth on output

Steve Kelly

• October 20, 2015 19:32

I've just noticed that when outputting images, I'm losing a lot of warmth when I compare the output jpg to the image shown within the CO8 window.
I've opened the output jpg in Internet explorer; windows photo viewer; uploaded to Flickr in chrome... viewed in all of these the image is a significant amount cooler than what I'm seeing in CO8.

I know that all different applications on Windows will render colour differently, but these 3 other applications all rendered it the same as each i.e. all a lot cooler than what I can see in CO8.
And I can't say as I'd really noticed this before. So it seems like something's strange is afoot!

Any ideas? Could something have changed in the output colour rendition from the 8.3.3 upgrade?
Thanks.
Steve.

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  Christian Gruner

  • October 21, 2015 07:11

  Try open it in Photoshop, however, at least Windows Photo Viewer should display the colors correctly.
  There has been not changes in this regard for a long time.

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  Steve Kelly

  • October 21, 2015 08:39

  I don't have Photoshop. I could try it in Lightroom?
  
  yeah, that's what I thought, with Windows Photo Viewer always had issues with contrast/shadows, but not with the colour.
  
  I'll open the jpg in LR tonight and see how it compares.

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  Steve Kelly

  • October 21, 2015 17:18

  Tried in Lightroom, no difference, still the same issue.
  
  I did take a screen grab though of the image in the CO8 application window, saved the screen grab as jpg, then opened that jpg in internet explorer, and the colour balance is the same as what I see in CO8.
  So it would seem that something is going wrong in the output process itself.
  
  I've opened a support ticket now, and just updated with some screen grabs and some further info, so will see what I get back.
  Cheers.

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  Steve Kelly

  • October 22, 2015 19:11

  Just an update, since I found the prblem, in case anyone else gets in the same situation...
  
  I noticed that the colour between the browser view of an image and the 'Viewer' view of the same image were a different.. a lot warmer in the Viewer than the browser.
  it was a setting in preferences -> colour... the 'rendering intent' option was set wrong. I reset it to the default (Perceptual) and now all is fine.

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