Anti-reflective glasses and TrueTone.

[Lchupacabras]

Hello y’all,

This year I made the switch to anti-reflective corrective glasses due to working on a computer all day and having to deal with the eye string that comes with that. I’ve noticed, especially since getting my iPhone X, that the glasses make colors a bit “warmer”. I haven’t had enough experience with the True Tone on iPads but it’s noticeable enough in my phone that I’m debating wether it’s worth keeping on or better to deal with the colder screen colors that come with True Tone being off.

Has anyone else experienced this? Is it something you find more noticeable with the newer screen technologies? I don’t do much design work on my phone but I do tend to edit photos on the fly, I’m wondering if my edits will overly colder to users that don’t use these types of glasses.

Just a though.

 

[artfossil]

I have anti-reflective lenses due to cataract surgery. At least for my brand, there is a definite yellow tint (which normal people might not notice but as a designer I notice.)

I also have True Tone on my iPhone 8+.

For editing photos or otherwise working with color on my desktop, I use "computer glasses"—single vision, no coatings—to get truer color and eliminate eyestrain. On my desktop, I'd doing my best to get "accurate" color/white balance for archival documentation of my work.

But on my iPhone I don't notice True Tone being too yellow, even with my coated lenses. I find it much easier on my eyes than the cooler blue screen of my non-True Tone iPad.

I also edit photos on the fly, on my iPad or iPhone, for sharing in multiple ways. My opinion--for what it's worth--is that the displays of your viewers are so variable, the minor shift to warmer white balance is not significant when you edit with True Tone on. As long as it looks OK to you, it's going to look fine to virtually all of your users.

It's also easy enough to toggle True Tone on/off.