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Björn Engelke
Björn Engelke
Participating Frequently
April 5, 2023

P: First Export of Session Only - Watermark color of first image is not correct

  • April 5, 2023
  • 14 replies
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I use a custom watermark (graphic/png) in LR Classic (12.2.1)
Everytime I export pictures with watermark, the first picture is always wrong. The main colour of my watermark is yellow. The very first pics watermark becomes blue, this happens mostly once per LR session, first export of this session. I already tried to deactivae GPU support for export like mentioned in another thread in this community, but this didn't changed the behaviour.

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    14 replies

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    High Octane Photos
    Participant
    July 4, 2025

    I am getting a similar issue, for me it's a burgandy in the PNG (created from scratch in Photoshop) that is coming up as a violet colour... It happens randomly (and then always until a restart) in Lightroom, but I have now found it happens in Irfanview _Every_ time when I use the same PNG...

    I've updated LR several times and it's still the same (and now that I know it happens in other software as well, I am thinking it may be something I did in Photoshop when I created the PNG instead)

    Anyone have any ideas on something that could be up here? Could it be the colour space used to save the initial image? (I did try a few different settings and none seemed to make a difference)

    Rikk Flohr_Photography
    Community Manager
    Rikk Flohr_PhotographyCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    January 3, 2025

    I am not able to replicate this (renewed) failure with the instructions provided.

    Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
    Björn Engelke
    Björn EngelkeAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    December 29, 2024

    Hello,

    Same here. I recognized that this error is happening again. Also version 14.1.1.

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    High Octane Photos
    Participant
    December 29, 2024

    This is happening for me, a lot more than I'd like...

    Running 14.1.1 and it's every export, but only certain photos - I've tried setting opacity in PS for the watermark file, I've tried 100% opacity.. I just can't get it to work on all photos, all the time...

    Maybe 80% of the time it works fine, every time, but some photos, it just won't get the colour of the watermark right (the main colour in the watermark is a deep magenta, and it comes out a dark blue on exports that fail)

    Rikk Flohr_Photography
    Community Manager
    Rikk Flohr_PhotographyCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    October 10, 2023

    Greetings all,

     

    Updates for the Adobe Photography Products have been released.  The October 2023 updates contain a fix for this issue. 

    If you do not see the update in your Creative Cloud Application, you can refresh it by hitting [Ctrl/Cmd]+[Alt/Opt]+[ R ].

    Note: It may take up to 24 hours for your update to be available in your Creative Cloud app.

     

    Thank you for your patience.

    Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
      Björn Engelke
      Björn EngelkeAuthor
      Participating Frequently
      September 14, 2023

      Is there any timeline when this bug will be fixed?

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        Rich Lynn
        Participant
        September 9, 2023

        I use LR Classic to process my sports photos.  I have a red and black watermark that I insert before posting online.  Recently LR has started randomly changing the color of some (not all) watermarks to blue and black during export.  Examples posted below.   Any ideas?

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          DjAligator14
          Known Participant
          June 23, 2023

          Since the version 12.3 i get this problem on export where it happens randomly that the colors of an image is tottaly different and if i export it again it's back to normal. I didn't change anything and i can't reproduce the problem on demand

            AxelMatt
            Community Expert
            AxelMattCommunity Expert
            Community Expert
            June 23, 2023

            In a first step try to reset the preferences to the default settings.

            Reset Procedure:

            • Close Lightroom.
            • Windows: Hold down [Alt]+[Shift] while restarting Lightroom.
              Mac: Hold down [Opt]+[Shift] while restarting Lightroom.
            • Overwrite the Preferences when prompted by the dialog.
            • Close Lightroom.
            • Restart Lightroom.

             

            It's recommended to backup your preferences before you reset the preferences to the default settings: 

            https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/kb/preference-file-and-other-file-locations.html

             

            My System: Intel i7-8700K - 64GB RAM - NVidia Geforce RTX 3060 - Windows 11 Pro 25H2 -- LR-Classic 15 - Photoshop 27 - Nik Collection 8 - PureRAW 5 - Topaz Photo
            sukla
            sukla
            Participating Frequently
            June 22, 2023

            This behaviour is seen for first few images.

            Each time you start/restart Lightroom ... DO a dummy export (say 20 images)
            Export again to overwrite the initial ones

            Rest of the export sseem to work fine

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            Nate McGillicutty
            Participant
            June 21, 2023

            I am having the same issue and would like a work around. I export hundreds of images a day and many of them have flipped colors on watermarks. Very annoying.

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