Exported Image Looks Different Than In C1
Hey everyone,
recently I've noticed an issue with some photos that had a lot of processing on them: they may look nice in Capture One, but once exported, the image looks different.
I tried setting the proof profile to the same profile that I use when exporting the image "JPEG - full size, highest quality", but it looks identical in Capture One to the sRGB proof profile (my default).
I've exported the image as a regular JPEG with an sRGB profile and 100 quality and it looks way off compared to what I see in Capture One.
Here is the side-by-side comparison of what I see in Capture One (the image on the right) and the way it looks when exported (the image on the left).
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A few questions:
1. Are you 100% sure you are exporting in the sRGB colorspace?
2. What program are you viewing the exported image in. It matters a lot whether the viewing program is colorspace-aware or not.
3. Do you know if your image edits contain any colors that are not possible to express in the sRGB colorspace?
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Hi John,
1. Absolutely.
2. I use Apple Preview (standard viewer on Mac). I also tried opening it in Capture One (the exported version), and it looked identical to the Apple Preview.
3. It may be (I guess any edit is likely to contain such colors), but the proofing profile is set to sRGB, so the version that I see in Capture One is the version that went through the underlying conversion to sRGB (unless there is a bug that prevents this from happening).
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Is Apple Preview colour managed?
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The main difference I can see in your post between the two images is that the stars seem more visible in the one on the right. A couple questions related to that:
- Is that the main difference that you're observing and asking about?
- Are you changing the resolution when you export?
- If you are changing the resolution, then you're not really comparing apples to apples as the resolution of the source image in both viewers would be different.
- If you are not changing the resolution and you view both images at 100%, do the stars seem more similar when viewed at 100%. If so, then this could easily be a difference in whatever algorithm the two separate viewing applications use to display an image at less than 100% (e.g. scaled down). Some algorithms will attempt to retain fine detail (like small, tiny stars) more than others. Some will apply sharpening to the scaled down images, some will not. Some are just more sophisticated than others.
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@John Friend, right, the stars are significantly better distinguishable in a version that I see Capture One UI.
1. This is the main difference indeed, but not the only one. The exported version also looks a bit "dirtier" (it shows many tiny other stars which are barely visible in the UI of Capture One), also there is a minor exposure shift (especially visible in the right part of the image).
2. No. I'm exporting the in full resolution and full quality.
3. Not applicable (no change in a resolution) :)
4. Unfortunately they don't. I even tried to import the exported image back in Capture One to compare them side-by-side, but they are different (even if I zoom-in, both images show even more differences).
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I have the same question with Capture One Express using SONY raw file. The edited preview is different from the exported image, not in detail but in color. The left one is the preview window, and the right one is the browse window. If I export the image, the image will look like the image in the browse window instead of preview window.
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Yep same exact problem for me. But it only happens for jpg images.
The exported image, no matter the export settings will look like the browsing image on the right instead of the preview window where I do the edits on the left.0 -
I had a few problems of images being exported not as they appear on the screen — it was not only a matter of colours, but also bugs on some heal/clone layers. Most of them got worked around by disabling hardware acceleration. I still have at least an image that get exported with the wrong colours.
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