Photos app enhances images while exports are dull
I took a photo at night of a light-up pool float. When viewed in the Photos app on my Macbook Pro or iPhone, the image looks crisp and vibrant. When I export or drag it to a folder and then view it with Preview, the image looks dull or washed out. I've even tried viewing it from an image editor and it still looks dull. However, if I reimport the dull exported photo into the Photos app, it looks as good as the original vibrant image. The Photos app is performing some sort of viewing enhancement which is being lost on export.
Maybe this is normal and the Photos app uses an exclusive color profile for displaying images, but you would think photos viewed in different apps on the same device would look the same, no?
MacBook Pro (M2 Pro, 2023)