My render looks darker on other screens

I’m a beginner and while my render looked fine on my new 32 inch 2k monitor I noticed on my phone and my imac that the render was significantly darker to the point where the render was barely visible almost like the light I put in it was gone.

I use lightroom for post processing after rendering in Blender any ideas what could be causing this? I tried using different image formats with no luck. Its a dark sci fi scene but its well lit when I rendered it and touched it up on adobe lightroom I wouldn’t have posted the render to artstation if I knew that it would look horrible on every other screen besides mine.

Hi Fernando, welcome to BlenderArtists.

You can join the images you’re talking about so we can help you with your request.

Cheers!

This how it looks on my 2k monitor

This is how it looks on other screens you can see how much darker it is ruins the image

I would recommend you use the built-in scopes to examine your renders (found under image editor > N panel > scopes). This would give you a better idea of how over-exposed your image is and you won’t have to fiddle with your monitor settings.


From the diagrams alone I can tell that the image is mostly green, in the low range, with few highlights.

Seeing that your title bar is so bright I would also suspect that your monitor is set up incorrectly. Gamma settings may be off. Try adjusting both your image exposure and your monitor gamma and see if that helps.

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Is it screen brightness level?
Get others that are with you to open the image and see how it looks on their devices.

So the 2k monitor is the problem, check if it has a hdr setting, or if it’s brightness is set to a high value.