Exported images don't look like the editor

In the editor the image looks like this:

When I export it to JPEG the colour is completely different:

I can’t find a setting that fixes this. Using a profile on export just makes it worse.

If you re-import the exported file, and display it in ART, does it look like the RAW? If yes, you probably have a colour management issue, with your viewer and ART using different display profiles. Is your viewer colour managed? Is the display profile set properly in both applications?

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Hi,
can you share the raw and arp sidecar? Thanks!

PXL_20241216_064834257.RAW-02.ORIGINAL.dng (33.4 MB)
PXL_20241216_064834257.RAW-02.ORIGINAL.dng.arp (12.3 KB)

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Thanks.

I tried 1080p just to try, but it doesn’t help. My screen is 4k though, that’s native resolution.

If you use sRGB (ICC V2) as output profile and you use ART on Windows, try to change the output profile to No ICM. It seems that sRGB (ICC V2) profile of Windows is not accurate.

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Thanks @yasuo, setting it to none made it worse, but I tried a few and Display P3 looks pretty good.

Hi,
Thanks for the files, I’ll have a look ASAP.
For other people: I know you are trying to help, and I really appreciate, but just throwing out random diagnoses will just increase the noise…
If you have some evidence, your input is more than welcome, but otherwise please consider trying things out before posting, thanks! :pray:

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Hi,
what OS are you on? Are you using a display profile? What happens if you set it to “None”?

For reference here’s what I get on macOS:

And here’s the exported image (resized to 1920):

So it might be a problem in your configuration.

HTH

Off topic here, but I gotta know… Do people board the train along the curved platform? There would be large gaps present. There is an unused subway platform in the New York subway system that has this issue.

This could be a hint from the OP in antoher thread:

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I think it is actually not so curved. I think it’s the visual magic of a telephoto lens. However sometimes there are very curved platforms in railways in Japan. In these cases, there are always announcements made in the train to alert passengers.

Somehow the gap isn’t too bad, but it’s still worse than ideal.

ART (Windows 11):

Display P3:

Monitor calibration settings:

REC 2020:

Hi,
Can you elaborate on what you are showing? I don’t understand whether the problem is solved (and if so, what you changed compared to your original post) or if you are saying something else… Thanks!

So none of the three outputs with different settings look quite like the screenshot from ART. The differences are more subtle now, but still there. These are JPEGs, uploaded directly, displayed by the browser (Firefox in my case).

The goal is for the output JPEG/PNG to look exactly like what is seen in ART.

Ok. Please see my questions above then:

Are you using a display profile? What happens if you set it to “None”?

In particular, you can tell what display profile ART is using by looking here:

Thanks!

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I have mine set to the monitor calibration settings. It does look very close when exported. I guess the difference is probably due to it being JPEG and the viewer (Directory Opus - not known for it’s great colour management).

Is there a particular viewer that is recommended? Ideally with support for HDR displays.

I don’t know about windows, sorry.

You could try HDR + WCG Image Viewer which seems to support viewing HDR images on HDR displays.

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