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Really frustrating issue going on. When I save a rendered image/video as any file format there's this super obvious color shift that occurs. It pulls down the saturation and boosts the brightness/highlights. The only solution I've found is to correct it via an image editor.

This seems to be the same issue as: color issue when save my render. But I am not very smart so idk what to make of the answer— if someone could give me a dummy walkthrough or explanation that would be soo helpful and appreciated.
I'm using Blender 2.92 on a MacBook Pro M1(I know, not ideal)

Rendered image is on the left and the saved image from render is on the right.

color shift

saltyaf
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did you try to set "view transform" to standard?

enter image description here

Chris
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  • Yes, Standard is what it's set to for this render! – saltyaf May 17 '21 at 06:22
  • Ok, then please provide blend file – Chris May 17 '21 at 06:39

  • The HDR is missing not sure how to correct it but should still get color shift??

     – saltyaf May 17 '21 at 07:16
  • just because i am curious: how long does it take to render that image on your M1? – Chris May 17 '21 at 07:20
  • i now saved it as .exr ....this is a bit better - but still not the same – Chris May 17 '21 at 07:28
  • Blender isn't optimized for the M1 yet so its running through Rosetta 2- that render took almost 6 min at 300 samples with denoising. I'm new to blender so it could probably be optimized better – saltyaf May 17 '21 at 07:31
  • thank! and...did you try this? https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/98279/color-difference-in-saved-images-vs-render-view – Chris May 17 '21 at 07:40
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    @saltyaf I've downloaded the file and the HDRI you used but I can't reproduce this error. Maybe because I'm running on Windows. My render looks exactly like the saved image - which looks like your saved image on the right. The only difference is I don't have that thick dark border on the top... I guess you should have a closer look on that link Chris provided in the previous comment. – Gordon Brinkmann May 17 '21 at 08:06
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    Thanks it looks like it may be an Apple issue, ill try rendering on a PC and see what happens! – saltyaf May 17 '21 at 08:44
  • So I rendered the image on a PC. The render and saved image were the same- they looked like the saved image above(on the right).

    So it seems like on my MacBook the saved image may be correct while the rendered image within blender as well as any color in blender is oversaturated and has its brightness/highlights turned down. Maybe due to my display's color profile or maybe blender's colors work off a different color profile with Apple vs PC??

     – saltyaf May 18 '21 at 08:49
  • I have found 3.0 does not have this issue and cycle render time is much shorter. – BlenderNueva Feb 06 '22 at 03:01
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I had the same issue and I think I figured it out! I opened the saved image in Photoshop, went to Edit > Assign Profile > Display (the last option).

This caused the image colors to look exactly as they look in the Blender Render viewer. Which is great if you are just going to be looking at the image on your Mac.

If you want to share it on the web it will not look the same, since the "display" color profile on a Mac has a wider range of colors than a web browser or PC is capable of, which I believe is sRGB.

So if the image is for sharing it makes sense to use the sRGB profile rather than Apple display if you want it to look the same across platforms.

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