# Photo colors: Adobe RGB, iPhone (Display P3) and sRGB photos

URL: https://www.panoramr.com/help/photo-colors-adobe-rgb-and-display-p3
Category: Photos and uploads
Keywords: color profile, colour profile, icc profile, adobe rgb, display p3, iphone colors, srgb, dull colors, washed out, colors look different, wide gamut, lightroom export
Last checked: 2026-10-22

How Panoramr reads a photo's color profile when you upload it, which photos it converts to sRGB, which it leaves alone, and what that costs.

Panoramr shows every panorama in sRGB, the color space every browser and phone screen expects. When you upload a photo saved in a wider color space, such as Adobe RGB from Lightroom or a camera, or Display P3 from an iPhone, Panoramr converts it to sRGB as it makes the tour's pictures, so its colors look the way the photo meant on every screen.

There is nothing to switch on in the editor. Panoramr's team has one switch for it, and it applies to every new panorama however the photo comes in: the uploader in the editor, Create Tour, a phone post, or replacing a panorama.

## Which photos are converted

Panoramr reads the photo's color profile (the note inside the file that says which color space its numbers are in) before it makes the pictures. A profile inside the file always counts over the camera data. The conversion is made once, when the pictures are made: the tour, its thumbnail and the card in the feed all show the same colors.

### sRGB photos

Most 360 cameras, most Android phones and most web images.

**Where:** Automatic, when the photo is made into pictures.
**Default:** Left exactly as it is.
**What it does:** Nothing: the photo is already in the space the screens expect.
**What visitors see:** The photo's own colors.
**Related:** [No color profile](https://www.panoramr.com/help/photo-colors-adobe-rgb-and-display-p3#photos-with-no-color-profile).

### Photos with no color profile

A photo that carries no note about its color space.

**Where:** Automatic.
**Default:** Treated as sRGB and left as it is, as browsers do.
**What it does:** Nothing, unless the camera data says Adobe RGB: see [Adobe RGB said only in the camera data](https://www.panoramr.com/help/photo-colors-adobe-rgb-and-display-p3#adobe-rgb-said-only-in-the-camera-data).
**What visitors see:** The photo's own colors.

### Adobe RGB photos

An Adobe RGB photo with the profile in the file, such as a Lightroom or Photoshop export.

**Where:** Automatic.
**Default:** Converted to sRGB.
**What it does:** Converts the pictures to sRGB. Very saturated colors that sRGB cannot show are brought to the nearest color it can; in our test photos that was under 1% of the pixels.
**What visitors see:** Colors that match the photo on an ordinary screen. Without the conversion the photo looks slightly dull.
**Related:** [Tips](https://www.panoramr.com/help/photo-colors-adobe-rgb-and-display-p3#tips).

### Adobe RGB said only in the camera data

Some cameras set to Adobe RGB save no profile, only a mark in the photo's EXIF.

**Where:** Automatic.
**Default:** Treated as Adobe RGB and converted to sRGB.
**What it does:** Reads the mark, and converts as for an Adobe RGB photo. A profile in the file always wins over this mark.
**What visitors see:** The same colors as an Adobe RGB photo with a profile.

### Display P3 photos

iPhone and iPad photos.

**Where:** Automatic.
**Default:** Converted to sRGB.
**What it does:** Converts the pictures to sRGB.
**What visitors see:** Colors that match the photo on an ordinary screen.

### Profiles Panoramr cannot read

CMYK, or an unusual kind of profile.

**Where:** Automatic.
**Default:** Left as it is.
**What it does:** Nothing. Export the photo in sRGB to be sure of its colors.
**What visitors see:** The photo's own numbers, as a browser draws them.

## What changes and what does not

- **Colors.** On an ordinary screen the difference is small: in our test photos the colors moved on average by about the smallest difference most people can see side by side, and more in the most saturated colors. Without the conversion those photos look slightly dull.
- **Time and size.** Converting adds about half a second to a 16,000 pixel photo, and its pictures are a few percent larger. Viewing a tour is no slower.
- **Your original.** The private copy of your original follows the same rule. A JPEG that Panoramr keeps exactly as you uploaded it keeps its own colors and profile.
- **Panoramas already uploaded** keep the pictures they were made with. To make new pictures for one, replace its photo: see [Replace or swap a panorama](https://www.panoramr.com/help/replace-or-swap-a-panorama).

## Tips

- If you want to see exactly what visitors will see before you upload, export your panoramas from Lightroom or Photoshop in sRGB. Panoramr then changes nothing.
- An Adobe RGB or Display P3 export is fine too: Panoramr converts it for you.
- [Photo requirements](https://www.panoramr.com/help/photo-requirements) lists the file types and sizes Panoramr takes.

## Troubleshooting

| You see | What it means and what to do |
| --- | --- |
| A panorama's colors look dull or washed out | It may have been uploaded before photos were converted, or its profile could not be read. Replace its photo, or export it in sRGB and replace it |
| The colors look different from your editing app | Your editing app may show the photo in its own wide color space on a wide-color screen. Check the sRGB export in a browser: that is what visitors see |
| A photo from your camera looks dull but its Lightroom export looks right | Set the camera to sRGB, or export the photo from Lightroom before you upload it |