I'm a photographer, I leave it off for sure. A huge part of getting photos to look a certain way is consistency and always looking at a consistent screen. If the color temperature of your screen changes you will naturally compensate for it. Its ok to have a warm screen if its always warm and you are aware of it, but if it changes you cannot have that.
Really helpful Jake. Also a photographer and True Tone ON prior to today, annoyed me enormously for as long as I can remember! The message under True Tone is so misleading leaving it ON. Anywho......OFF....1000% :)
Also as a photographer you always use it when your display is not calibrated to you environment you are working in. Imagine you edit photos at evening and you turn it off, you would add too much warmth to every image. When then someone looks on your photos also at evening with true tone on or on a calibrated device, it will get even warmer. True tone is a poor mans dynamic display calibration. Turning it off because of the reason you said, is not a good idea and will lead to inconsistent images.
Thank you jake. I found that this video, like most of the opinions im finding lookin into this subject, to only muddy the water and make my decision harder and less objective. Basic and consistency in mind it makes the most sense to keep it off, especially if you avoid that kind of a thing on all your other devices.
@@sparktite no, not at all. Leave it on to have the best results as your environment predicts how your percept images and not your screen. Only case where you want to leave it of, is a controlled environment with always the same lighting and a monitor calibration every month. Otherwise leave it on 100%.
I wasn't aware of the True Tone setting for a while, until I noticed a dramatic shift in my whites (from white to yellow) depending of the time of the day. So as far as I concluded so far, the only option for grading on your Macbook is to turn it off, because otherwise what you see is not what you gonna get. If you compensate the 'yellow' flare back to white, when exporting you are in fact way of the right color (but don't notice this as your screen is NOT providing you with the right visual image). So turning it off is the only solution.... Try for yourself with a complete white image in your timeline, balance it and then (in the evening) start playing with the auto-brightness and True Tone setting and you will see an dramatic shift in your grading on screen. But if you export it, and someone is getting your (True Tone corrected) master, they will probably see a completely different grading, especially when not watching on a True Tone screen themselves.....
Man I feel I'm more confused after seeing this tutorial haha :D. My own analysis - IF you are like me a photographer and want to keep the same consistency as say a photo being edited on photoshop, as on your phone/IG, I would recommend keeping True Tone off !
Some people say it turns the screen warm when in white light to compensate, and some people say it turns the screen white when in white light to look the same as your room, I don't get it anymore.
I understand your point that many viewers will be using TrueTone, but they'll be using it in different rooms to you and to each other. So could one person see your photo as yellower, while one sees it as bluer just because of the room? It feels like trying to hit a moving target, but I may not be understanding how it works
it changes in all directions....not just warmth....and it does this in an extremely small percentage just to compensate for the light around you. More white and blue light (as told in the video) the more yellow it gets...but in the other way around too....maybe you eather dont own an Iphone with Truetone or you have an extremely Placebo effect
@@sotiris223 I have iphone 14 series and i really find true tone to be so much warmer and yellowish. I had to turn it off. So yes we own an iphone. And its not placebo, because i wasnt aware of true tone until i was already so irritated with the yellowish screen. It had me search the display settings and found out about it.
@@imagamer3136 this is because you are used to an extremely blueish picture especially when using it at evening. You will get used to it and then have you can enjoy way more accurate colors. Thank me later.
So does TrueTone affect WHILE you’re recording or taking a photo? Will the recording or picture look weirder (like orangey or with a yellowish cast)? I noticed with my old iPad that didn’t have Truetone my recordings looked normal, but now my new iPad pro records videos with a prominent slight orangey cast when I’m recording in a bright LED lighted room.
Let me preface by saying I probably am not understanding how this works. But trying to compensate for users viewing your content with TrueTone seems like trying to hit a moving target, because they're not only viewing your work in a different room than you, but also than each other. It seems like one user's screen may become cooler to compensate for warm conditions, while one's screen will turn warmer to compensate for cooler conditions
For me I really like true tone...it soothes my eye, especially I do have a matte tempered glass to my iphone. But when previewing a photo or at least editing it, I usually turn it off jsut for consistency
It makes your phone display warm. If you want it warm keep it on if you like neutral and no added temperature to the display , turn it off. I definitely keep it turned off.
it changes in all directions....not just warmth....and it does this in an extremely small percentage just to compensate for the light around you. More white and blue light (as told in the video) the more yellow it gets...but in the other way around too.... it adjusts the aggressiveness. Also it is actually more healthy for your eyes if turned on because it keeps the blue light regularly down
@@flol3266 But I want accurate ones...not "Natural feeling" ones....its important to have always the same Color Output when editing and thats not given with true tone
@@sotiris223 with natural I mean correct colors. Your eyes interpret colors always in relation to nearby or surrounding colors. If you turn off True Tone at evening at home for example, most people have around 3000 kelvin light bulbs. A MacBook Display with photo display setting is calibrated to 6500K. So when you view your „correct“ calibrated colors in this environment, your images will be perceived as very blue by your eyes and when you do white balance this way, it will turn out way to warm in the actual picture when you print it or even when you view it the next day at sunlight with 6500K. So True Tone delivers almost always more „true“ colors. True to what it is really to look like. I have a light bulb that can output 6500K and I bet nobody has such a light at home because it is awful and really annoying at evening at home. Yes you can turn off True Tone and have always the same output (which you also have with it enabled when you always use the same light bulb), but then your images will always and consistently be too warm when you send it to other persons. The other way would be to calibrate your display to your home lighting and always work there on the same spot, but why do you then have a portable device? If you use it with calibrated display at always the same environment, then yes, it is better to turn off True Tone.
This is not true unfortunately. You only want to turn it off if you have calibrated your screen to your room light and you never change that light (like dimming or so). And you cover your windows completely in the day so that not other light can come in. Yes then it makes sense to turn it off. But I guess most people are not doing this especially when using a MacBook or iPad. So True Tone should be turned on.
Especially when printing you should use True Tone. Because an image is reflecting the surrounding light and when you work at evening at home, most people have warm light, but most apple devices are calibrated to 6500K. So when turning True Tone off, your prints will look way more yellow than your screen. This is the yellowish that many people describe. True Tone just shows how a paper would change colors in different lighting.
it changes in all directions....not just warmth....and it does this in an extremely small percentage just to compensate for the light around you. More white and blue light (as told in the video) the more yellow it gets...but in the other way around too....
@@fegik5922 Yes....at least it should....the same way it gets "yellow" ....true tone is changeing verly slightly....for more there is nightshift wich makes the screen littlerly Orange
to help our eyes apple give for us "night shift" mode, and this really help to relax eyes. and you can feel it in one second after turning on night shift mode. and when you turn on true tone, its hard to see any changes they are so little visible. check in google next things. keep some google ask for you. First, True Tone for what Second. Night Shift this
Honestly it’s kinda same with eyecomfort shield in samsung atleast for me coz I have iphone and samsung but I can see that eyecomfort shield is warmer when at night compared to truetone.
it changes in all directions....not just warmth....and it does this in an extremely small percentage just to compensate for the light around you. More white and blue light (as told in the video) the more yellow it gets...but in the other way around too.... it adjusts the aggressiveness. Also it is actually more healthy for your eyes if turned on because it keeps the blue light regularly down
I'm a photographer, I leave it off for sure. A huge part of getting photos to look a certain way is consistency and always looking at a consistent screen. If the color temperature of your screen changes you will naturally compensate for it. Its ok to have a warm screen if its always warm and you are aware of it, but if it changes you cannot have that.
Really helpful Jake. Also a photographer and True Tone ON prior to today, annoyed me enormously for as long as I can remember! The message under True Tone is so misleading leaving it ON. Anywho......OFF....1000% :)
I had no idea what True Tone meant- thanks for this
Also as a photographer you always use it when your display is not calibrated to you environment you are working in.
Imagine you edit photos at evening and you turn it off, you would add too much warmth to every image. When then someone looks on your photos also at evening with true tone on or on a calibrated device, it will get even warmer.
True tone is a poor mans dynamic display calibration. Turning it off because of the reason you said, is not a good idea and will lead to inconsistent images.
Thank you jake. I found that this video, like most of the opinions im finding lookin into this subject, to only muddy the water and make my decision harder and less objective. Basic and consistency in mind it makes the most sense to keep it off, especially if you avoid that kind of a thing on all your other devices.
@@sparktite no, not at all. Leave it on to have the best results as your environment predicts how your percept images and not your screen. Only case where you want to leave it of, is a controlled environment with always the same lighting and a monitor calibration every month. Otherwise leave it on 100%.
1:52 No, we didn’t see it. Because it doesn’t change in the screen recording.
Did not know that, might need to make this video again.
😭😂💀
I wasn't aware of the True Tone setting for a while, until I noticed a dramatic shift in my whites (from white to yellow) depending of the time of the day. So as far as I concluded so far, the only option for grading on your Macbook is to turn it off, because otherwise what you see is not what you gonna get. If you compensate the 'yellow' flare back to white, when exporting you are in fact way of the right color (but don't notice this as your screen is NOT providing you with the right visual image). So turning it off is the only solution.... Try for yourself with a complete white image in your timeline, balance it and then (in the evening) start playing with the auto-brightness and True Tone setting and you will see an dramatic shift in your grading on screen. But if you export it, and someone is getting your (True Tone corrected) master, they will probably see a completely different grading, especially when not watching on a True Tone screen themselves.....
no its not clear, i think true tune shoude trun off when we editing becuse when true tune is turn on everything looks warm
yes
No. Only turn it off when you have a calibrated display in a controlled environment. Otherwise you should leave it on definitely.
I hate it because sometimes I put my hand on the sensor on my iPad and it start turning yellowish. Bad for design work
Man I feel I'm more confused after seeing this tutorial haha :D. My own analysis - IF you are like me a photographer and want to keep the same consistency as say a photo being edited on photoshop, as on your phone/IG, I would recommend keeping True Tone off !
I think the true tone is just like the white balance when we take a picture, and apple will adjust the K value automatically.
Supposedly as of latest version of Lightroom on iOS, True Tone is turned off by Lightroom when you’re in app. According to Adobe forums anyway.
Not in premiere pro
Some people say it turns the screen warm when in white light to compensate, and some people say it turns the screen white when in white light to look the same as your room, I don't get it anymore.
I understand your point that many viewers will be using TrueTone, but they'll be using it in different rooms to you and to each other. So could one person see your photo as yellower, while one sees it as bluer just because of the room? It feels like trying to hit a moving target, but I may not be understanding how it works
Turning on true tone will make your screen warmer & too yellowish which is so uncomfortable to someone who's sensitive to colors..
it changes in all directions....not just warmth....and it does this in an extremely small percentage just to compensate for the light around you.
More white and blue light (as told in the video) the more yellow it gets...but in the other way around too....maybe you eather dont own an Iphone with Truetone or you have an extremely Placebo effect
@@sotiris223 I have iphone 14 series and i really find true tone to be so much warmer and yellowish. I had to turn it off. So yes we own an iphone. And its not placebo, because i wasnt aware of true tone until i was already so irritated with the yellowish screen. It had me search the display settings and found out about it.
@@imagamer3136 this is because you are used to an extremely blueish picture especially when using it at evening. You will get used to it and then have you can enjoy way more accurate colors. Thank me later.
@@imagamer3136i have samsung and iphone it looks like Truetone and Eyecomfort shield are the same in day but not by night atleast for me.
So a calibrated display will be uncomfortable for most people to look on? Please explain.
So does TrueTone affect WHILE you’re recording or taking a photo? Will the recording or picture look weirder (like orangey or with a yellowish cast)? I noticed with my old iPad that didn’t have Truetone my recordings looked normal, but now my new iPad pro records videos with a prominent slight orangey cast when I’m recording in a bright LED lighted room.
Let me preface by saying I probably am not understanding how this works. But trying to compensate for users viewing your content with TrueTone seems like trying to hit a moving target, because they're not only viewing your work in a different room than you, but also than each other. It seems like one user's screen may become cooler to compensate for warm conditions, while one's screen will turn warmer to compensate for cooler conditions
For me I really like true tone...it soothes my eye, especially I do have a matte tempered glass to my iphone. But when previewing a photo or at least editing it, I usually turn it off jsut for consistency
It makes your phone display warm. If you want it warm keep it on if you like neutral and no added temperature to the display , turn it off. I definitely keep it turned off.
it changes in all directions....not just warmth....and it does this in an extremely small percentage just to compensate for the light around you.
More white and blue light (as told in the video) the more yellow it gets...but in the other way around too....
it adjusts the aggressiveness.
Also it is actually more healthy for your eyes if turned on because it keeps the blue light regularly down
True Tone is more natural when it is active, not the other way around.
@@flol3266 But I want accurate ones...not "Natural feeling" ones....its important to have always the same Color Output when editing and thats not given with true tone
@@sotiris223 with natural I mean correct colors. Your eyes interpret colors always in relation to nearby or surrounding colors. If you turn off True Tone at evening at home for example, most people have around 3000 kelvin light bulbs. A MacBook Display with photo display setting is calibrated to 6500K. So when you view your „correct“ calibrated colors in this environment, your images will be perceived as very blue by your eyes and when you do white balance this way, it will turn out way to warm in the actual picture when you print it or even when you view it the next day at sunlight with 6500K.
So True Tone delivers almost always more „true“ colors. True to what it is really to look like.
I have a light bulb that can output 6500K and I bet nobody has such a light at home because it is awful and really annoying at evening at home. Yes you can turn off True Tone and have always the same output (which you also have with it enabled when you always use the same light bulb), but then your images will always and consistently be too warm when you send it to other persons.
The other way would be to calibrate your display to your home lighting and always work there on the same spot, but why do you then have a portable device? If you use it with calibrated display at always the same environment, then yes, it is better to turn off True Tone.
you def want to turn it off regardless but try not to edit in an environment without balanced light
This is not true unfortunately. You only want to turn it off if you have calibrated your screen to your room light and you never change that light (like dimming or so). And you cover your windows completely in the day so that not other light can come in. Yes then it makes sense to turn it off. But I guess most people are not doing this especially when using a MacBook or iPad. So True Tone should be turned on.
Especially when printing you should use True Tone. Because an image is reflecting the surrounding light and when you work at evening at home, most people have warm light, but most apple devices are calibrated to 6500K. So when turning True Tone off, your prints will look way more yellow than your screen. This is the yellowish that many people describe. True Tone just shows how a paper would change colors in different lighting.
Liked the way u talk😉❤️
Should it make the screen warm to match warm lighting conditions and then switch off in cool lighting conditions?
it changes in all directions....not just warmth....and it does this in an extremely small percentage just to compensate for the light around you.
More white and blue light (as told in the video) the more yellow it gets...but in the other way around too....
@@sotiris223 why would it get more yellow in a blue lighting condition that doesn't make sense?
@@fegik5922 because of the same reason why there is "night shift" it canceles out the blue light and it makes it easier on the eyes
@@sotiris223 but then in a warm lightning condition, true tone would make the screen blue?
@@fegik5922 Yes....at least it should....the same way it gets "yellow" ....true tone is changeing verly slightly....for more there is nightshift wich makes the screen littlerly Orange
Personal preference.
it gets me headache
Maybe turning true tone on can be easy on our eye ..
yes
to help our eyes apple give for us "night shift" mode, and this really help to relax eyes. and you can feel it in one second after turning on night shift mode. and when you turn on true tone, its hard to see any changes they are so little visible. check in google next things.
keep some google ask for you. First, True Tone for what
Second. Night Shift this
I really hate True Tone 😂
There’s already night mode when it’s late
True tone should not even exist, it's the same thing as night mode, only that it's more annoying
Honestly it’s kinda same with eyecomfort shield in samsung atleast for me coz I have iphone and samsung but I can see that eyecomfort shield is warmer when at night compared to truetone.
just turn it off!
it changes in all directions....not just warmth....and it does this in an extremely small percentage just to compensate for the light around you.
More white and blue light (as told in the video) the more yellow it gets...but in the other way around too....
it adjusts the aggressiveness.
Also it is actually more healthy for your eyes if turned on because it keeps the blue light regularly down