: What color profile should I use when designing for iPhone? We're working with Photoshop CS5 on Mac (OSX Lion) and would like to see the colors on the Mac exactly like they will look on the

@Caterina889

What you need is color management in your app. There is a good color management library available. It's open source. Have a look at little CMS :- github.com/mm2/Little-CMS
From IOS 9.3, apple has built in colormanagement across the devices.

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@Samaraweera207

Display manufacture's don't adhere to any standard, only to what is eye candy to consumers. Consumers don't realize overly bright and vivid colors are u realistic, not to forget contrast and brightness values get lost. Shadow detail is lost or clouds seems less detailed. It's about quantity of monetary numbers versus quality of goods.

sRGB or Rec709 are base standards to follower with a happy medium. Use a colorimeter or spectrophotometer. Xrite is a good place to start. SpectraCal, Lightspace, Chromapure, and HCFR are great software platforms to use to calibrate displays and printers.

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@BetL875

There's more to the question. You want the colors to match whose iPhone, and which model(s), and for how long? Like any electronic display, the color will drift slightly over time, and you never have control over the user's settings.

The question you have to ask is whether the time invested in trying to match a something that will change immediately is worth the opportunity cost of not doing something else.

Attempting to color manage what is not under your control is not the most productive use of your time.

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@Jennifer810

If you can calibrate your hardware (monitor), then it should - aside from print jobs - also be possible to be done for a mobile device. If you don't have hardware calibration tools, then I'd say: No chance.

Aside from that: sRGB profile.

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