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March 31, 2025
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P: Add full support for external editing in Rec2020 (critical for HDR and ideal for print)

  • March 31, 2025
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The Rec2020 colorspace (aka ITU-R BT.2020) is a critical colorspace for photography and not well supported in Lightroom Classic.

 

Rec2020 is the preferred colorspace for HDR (and is LRC's working primaries when in HDR mode). Rec2020 is also very ideal for print-related work as it includes many printable colors which fall outside Adobe RGB / P3, and yet avoids the excess of ProPhoto (which includes many imaginary values outside the range of human vision).

 

You cannot use it via any "edit in" options to open your image in Photoshop, which is especially important for working with RAW Smart Objects. The colorspace options in LRC preferences / external editing are limited to ProPhoto, Adobe RGB, P3, and sRGB.

 

This would ideally be done as a "JDI", as both LRC and PS support Rec2020, we simply don't have the option in the colorspace dropdown for external editing.

 

Note that there is limited support now in the "export" pathway (you can select file settings / color space = "rec 2020"). We just need a way to offer the same colorspace options for external editing.

48 replies

Inspiring
April 1, 2025

Please add external editing support for Rec2020.  It is crital for the growth of HDR.

Participant
April 1, 2025

Please add external editing support for Rec2020.  It is crital for the growth of HDR.

Participant
April 1, 2025

Agreed, please add!

Participant
April 1, 2025

Please add external editing support for Rec2020. 

Participant
April 1, 2025

Please add external editing support for Rec2020.  It is crital for the growth of HDR. And please add HDR in the slide-show. Thanks in advance. Carl Hinzpeter 

Participant
April 1, 2025

Please add external editing support for Rec2020.  It is crital for the growth of HDR.

Participant
April 1, 2025

Please add external editing support for Rec2020.  It is crital for the growth of HDR.

davida85916061
Participant
April 1, 2025

Please add external editing support for Rec2020.  It is crital for the growth of HDR.

Inspiring
April 1, 2025

Please add external editing support for Rec2020.  It is crital for the growth of HDR.

Participant
April 1, 2025

Adobe, your products are the best tools for developing HDR on the market today!  Please please consider enabling REC2020 through the entire workflow from input to any output device and passed transparently across all of your tools!