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October 21, 2017

P: Mobile (Android): Raw photos are being imported as black and white

  • October 21, 2017
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Hi. When I import RAW (*.RAF) photos into Lightroom CC (Android) directly from my Fujifilm X-T20 into Samsung Galaxy Tab Android tablet, they appera black and white. If I do the exact same on Samsung Galaxy S7 phone (Android), they are imported correctly (colour).

I made a screenshot. First picture (chronologically last one - smiling girlfriend) is imported using Phone. It is in colour everywhere. Two other pictures (chronologically first, cat on balcony and less smiling girlfriend) are imported using tablet, being incorrectly black and white.



More funny things:

1) When imported on tablet, they appear B/W only on tablet, after they sync also to the phone, they appear in colour

2) When I edit this badly imported photo in tablet, they will stay B/W forever, even on other devices

3) When I import pictures using phone, they appear in colour on Phone and also on tablet.

4) More sofisticated scenario - when I import pictures using Tablet (they appear B/W) and the open it in phone (in colour) and I make basic edits on tha phone like crope, exposure and so on... these changes sync between phone and tablet in a way that the picture is edited BUT still B/W on a tablet! 

This is so weird behaviour.

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29 replies

Inspiring
November 11, 2017
X-pro 2, same problem. There has got to be a solution
Inspiring
November 10, 2017
I have the same issue with a X-Pro 2 and Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus
Inspiring
November 10, 2017
I'm having these problems in my LG-V30 with my Fuji(X-T20) RAW photos (uncompressed and lossless compressed) as well. I think I used snapseed (or google photos) once and after the metadata was messed up and the photo size reduced the file (still a RAF) appeared in color in lightroom mobile but was not usable.
avelicu
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November 9, 2017
Same problem for me, on both a tablet (Pixel C) and a phone (Pixel), also with Fuji (X-T20).
Known Participant
November 4, 2017
Now I'm facing this issue also on cellphone.
Known Participant
October 29, 2017
No response from Adobe yet. What a surprise...
Inspiring
October 22, 2017
Hopefully it's just a bug with tablets that will be fixed soon
Known Participant
October 22, 2017
Thanks for this reply, I was just about to buy a Tab S3 to fix this 😄
Inspiring
October 22, 2017
Same thing here, importing photos from my X-T2 directly into LR CC on my Tab S3 tablet. Showing up fine on my Note 8 though.