lightroom processing diff colors. windowns photo viewer and windows photos show different

hello there everyone,
i have been complaining to my wife for a couple weeks now that the photos i edit look one way in lightroom but when exported they change appearance. the colors usually get intensified and oversaturated plus edges get more jagged. i thought this was a lightroom export settings problems but today i opened an image in "photos" as opposed to "windows photo viewer" and in "PHOTOS" the image looked exactly like the lightroom version but the windows photo viewer imaged look all choppy and oversaturated. is this something i need to worry about or is it something more along the lines of 'just set PHOTOS as the default image viewing program from now on'

how will people see the pics on their screens?
i have attached screenshots so you better understand what i am saying. thanks for any and all feedback.

this is how image looks in lightroom edited

There's a Color Management sticky thread:

https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=296149

kirk

LR does colormanagment, windows does not.
I wonder when MS shall do as Apple does, because OS X is colour managed all over.

Make sure to export from Lightroom in the sRGB color space, unless you have a very good reason to do otherwise.

Windows Picture Viewer is widely regarded to be crap.

isvein wrote in post #17591629
LR does colormanagment, windows does not.
I wonder when MS shall do as Apple does, because OS X is colour managed all over.

so maybe i need to get a Mac?

nathancarter wrote in post #17591656
Make sure to export from Lightroom in the sRGB color space, unless you have a very good reason to do otherwise.

Windows Picture Viewer is widely regarded to be crap.

i do export in sRGB. any other image viewing software you recommend. i am using PHOTOS now but it like a slideshow type of thing and it cumbersome.

Astheros wrote in post #17591659
...any other image viewing software you recommend...

You could always use Lightroom, it does have a built in slideshow.

Astheros wrote in post #17591659
so maybe i need to get a Mac?

i do export in sRGB. any other image viewing software you recommend. i am using PHOTOS now but it like a slideshow type of thing and it cumbersome.

No, that would be the expensive way, but do you calibrate your monitors?
It helps a lot, to show sRGB right.
I use the X-Rite i1 and likes that one a lot and has had no big problems with colors not showing right, on Windows and OSX.

Do you by any chance have a wide gamut monitor? Because Windows Picture Viewer is not color managed and if an sRGB image is displayed on a wide gamut monitor in a not-color-managed viewer, it will be as you have described - over-saturated and overly contrasty.

You don't need a mac, you need to learn about color management and use appropriate software. Check my recommended books thread for a color book. I'd link to the book directly but it's in a forum I've hidden and I can't be bothered unhiding it.

isvein wrote in post #17591768
No, that would be the expensive way, but do you calibrate your monitors?
It helps a lot, to show sRGB right.
I use the X-Rite i1 and likes that one a lot and has had no big problems with colors not showing right, on Windows and OSX.

i will attempt to calibrate it but if the monitor was the problem wouldnt it look bad everywhere. not just on certain software programs?

tzalman wrote in post #17591786
Do you by any chance have a wide gamut monitor? Because Windows Picture Viewer is not color managed and if an sRGB image is displayed on a wide gamut monitor in a not-color-managed viewer, it will be as you have described - over-saturated and overly contrasty.

i will look into this. its an acer LED monitor. i will find out.

tim wrote in post #17591792
You don't need a mac, you need to learn about color management and use appropriate software. Check my recommended books thread for a color book. I'd link to the book directly but it's in a forum I've hidden and I can't be bothered unhiding it.

yes i def need to learn about color management. this is just a hobby for me but it seems it may turn into a part time thing and i want to do things right for my customers.

Astheros wrote in post #17591817
i will attempt to calibrate it but if the monitor was the problem wouldnt it look bad everywhere. not just on certain software programs? i will look into this. its an acer LED monitor. i will find out.

Think about it...The purpose of monitor calibration is to

1. make the monitor's color/hue renditions appear similar to reality, and
   
2. make the monitor's color/hue renditions appear similar to a calibrated printer's output -- and hopefully it mimics reality!