Screenshots too dark/colour off

ghaztehschmexeh

I'm having an issue where things look right in Toolbag 2 or 3DO, but when I render them out and open the image in photoshop or an image viewer the colour just doesn't seem right. It appears darker, at the very least. Using levels in PS helps, but it doesn't feel quite right still. Could this be a monitor calibration issue? I feel like I've had this issue in the past but it's only recently popped up again since I reinstalled my OS.

I just uploaded the darker image to puu.sh to show an example. When uploaded and opened in the browser, it looks fine. It looks fine in xnview as opposed to windows image viewer, but also not right in photoshop.

Anyone have any idea?

monster

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/change-color-management-settings

I had a similar problem. I have a Dell monitor and in the Windows Color Management dialog it was set to a Dell profile. That made sense, but it wasn't working. I changed the color profile for the monitor to "sRGB iec61966-2.1" and everything matches up now. The link above explains how to change the profile.

GlowingPotato

Well. if the image look right at toolbag or 3DO, its not your monitor.

Seams to be a color/gamma correction issue. When saving your renders, is there an option to save the color corrected image or raw image?

ghaztehschmexeh

GlowingPotato wrote: »

Well. if the image look right at toolbag or 3DO, its not your monitor.

Seams to be a color/gamma correction issue. When saving your renders, is there an option to save the color corrected image or raw image?

Not as far as I'm aware. Toolbag has the below settings, 3DO has just a "screenshot" button.



@monster I'll have a look, thanks.

GlowingPotato

So, When you render in Toolbag, the render appears to be OK. But when you open the rendered image in another program, its looks darker. Is that it ?

GlowingPotato

Try this, open the image with photshop, in Image>adjustments>Exposure put 2,2 in gama correction....

ghaztehschmexeh

It looks fine in XnView, that's the weird thing. Just not windows image viewer or PS. And changing it too that value makes it look worse, very light grey feel to it.

GlowingPotato

i see.... its probably an issue with color/gamma profile.

In photoshop, try assigning a color profile to your image.

Under EDIT>Assign Profile.

The most common one is sRGB IEC61966-2.1

ghaztehschmexeh

GlowingPotato wrote: »

i see.... its probably an issue with color/gamma profile.

In photoshop, try assigning a color profile to your image.

Under EDIT>Assign Profile.

The most common one is sRGB IEC61966-2.1

It looks much better when I assign the profile of my monitor. The sRGB IEC61966-2.1 one doesn't change it as far as I can see. My concern about changing it to the profile of my monitor is that it won't look right to other people when viewing on my portfolio website.