Color Matching Monitors

[NickRowler]

Does anyone have any tips for helping to color match a monitor. I feel like my colors look nice on my monitor but not so nice when I look at them on my phone.

The character with the spiky hair is suppose to have a light peach color but on my phone they look yellow. And I really do not want them to look yellow.

This could be an issue with my phone but I checked on another device and they look yellowish.

[MartaTod]

Hmm, shows up a bit yellow on my computer screen too. Did you check if you monitor is calibrated well? Maybe the reds are a bit more intense on it, or maybe it somehow got switched it to a different mode?

[MarMarTche]

Yeah it's yellowish on my phone too. Can you hold up your phone to the computer and try to match it that way? Is that even a thing?

[NickRowler]

I put the image in my second monitor and it looks fine. My monitor sucks and I tried to adjust the colors and it looks nothing like on my phone. The other guy is suppose to have pinkish skin but he looks orange, not too happy about that. I don't know if phones boost warm colors.

[MartaTod]

I don't know about Android phones, but if you have an iPhone or iPad and "True tone" setting for the screen on, it can make the colors warmer/more yellow depending on the light in the room you're in. It could be something like that?

[hakei]

If you have the budget, I'd highly recommend getting a monitor calibrator because our eyes aren't that accurate when trying to calibrate colors. It's well worth the money to know that what you see on your monitor is the true, print-worthy color and consistent across devices (well, consistent enough. Some phones/laptop manufactueres will still skew their screens bluer or yellower than the true color)

I have a used Spyder4 from ebay that I got for $50 bucks and it still works amazingly three years later.

[TheLemmaLlama]

Eh, my eyes kind of just adjusted to what colour I should aim for on Device A if I want it to look a certain way on Device B. In the end, even if your colours look good on all your devices, there's a chance someone out there reading your comic would have a device that makes them see your art in a way that doesn't fit your vision

[system]

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