PHOTO: dissonance between the image in the workspace vs the image upon export (bright color warning)

[Volant]

my work revolves around destroying images//doing harsh recolouring (to the point of losing the original image, gaining a new shape with organic patterns/shapes but unrealistic colors)
in this work i use a lot of filters/adjustment layers in AP, which makes images that look wonderful in the workspace, but upon export they end up rather ugly and not at all true to how i experience them in the viewport.

My thoughts are this is related somehow to the viewport zoom levels system, but i can't really work around that efficiently and it's extremely disappointing.

an example:

(image one: screenshot of the viewport at 23% scale)

(image two: screenshot of the viewport on that little bubble in the bottom-left corner, 100% zoom) 

the noise here which is not visible when zoomed out - ends up muddying the image upon export or zooming in. also rasterizing the layer stack (in this instance the layer stack is as follows:
 

 

any thoughts on what i could do to avoid this issue when exporting? 


when i export the images at a much lower resolution (like 1/3 res) they do not exhibit the contrast issue either. would i be better off exporting at a lower res and upscaling somehow? not really a fan of using ai stuff but if it has to be done, i'll mess with it.

final image: jpeg full size export of this image

[stokerg]

Hi @Volant,

I suspect the main issue here is caused by applying the Adjustments at under 100% zoom.  James has explained in more detail on this thread, its also worth following the link in that reply to the other thread, where James goes into more detail.

But i suspect if you remade the file in the above screenshots and applied your adjustments at 100% zoom, your export will match whats shown on screen.  If that doesn't help, could you attach your afphoto file?