Photos look diff in Mac vs PC--HELP!!!

[BlueNoteBelzy]

I'm having an issue with photos looking amazing on my iMac but on PC or iPhone they look terrible! Like skin tones are green or yellow. This only happens about 5-10% of time. I don't know if it's my workflow or actions I'm using or I need a monitor calibration? My prints come out pretty good from WHCC.
Suggestions?

My workflow is: RAW sRGB--> LR (which is 16bit in ProPhoto)-->Photo, Edit in CS5-->I Save As in photoshop as sRGB w/ Embedded profile checked at bottom.
I'm wondering if I should just hit Save in PS and go back into LR then export there?

Thank you for your responses, I really appreciate any help

Greg

[danchez]

sounds like a monitor calibration issue.

[arich]

You've discovered the secret reason all photographers use Macs. Bill Gates secretly hates photos (rumor is he had a bad experience with his junior high yearbook) and he programmed Windows to make all pictures horrible and eventually turn into blue screens of death.

[TheFantasticG]

Originally Posted by danchez

sounds like a monitor calibration issue.

Yup. I highly suggest Spyder Express 3.

[picman]

I would always recommend a calibrated monitor - but if the problem is only happening 5-10% of the time, think I would look at a profile problem - could you post an example?

Is WHCC color correcting your prints? Is so, they could be covering a problem.

At some point are you converting to sRGB? What file format are you saving to?

As a side note, if you are going the extra bit with RAW, I would change the camera from sRGB to Adobe RGB - why not get all the data you can?

[BlueNoteBelzy]

Hey all- thank you for taking time to respond. I'm so stupid, after right clicking on the photo thumbnails of photos that were problematic I saw they were in ProPhoto RGB still. I switched my LR to sRGB w/ SLR Lounge recommends. Problem fixed. SO simple.

As to shooting in Adobe RGB, I thought color space in camera didn't matter since it's RAW file?
anyway,
thanks again all
G

[picman]

Originally Posted by BlueNoteBelzy

Hey all- thank you for taking time to respond. I'm so stupid, after right clicking on the photo thumbnails of photos that were problematic I saw they were in ProPhoto RGB still. I switched my LR to sRGB w/ SLR Lounge recommends. Problem fixed. SO simple.

As to shooting in Adobe RGB, I thought color space in camera didn't matter since it's RAW file?
anyway,
thanks again all
G

True- I forgot about color space being part of RAW

[crazeazn]

what browsers are you using on the mac or pc?

AFAIK, safari and firefox are ok. chrome not so much. there is so much disparity in everybody's monitors not everything will look the same (even with calibration none of my machines look "the same" so you can imagine everybody elses). as long as your main computer and your prints are okay i wouldnt really worry.