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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

Participant
March 31, 2025

Add it!

Participant
March 31, 2025

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

javiers52197091
Participant
March 31, 2025

Please add external editing support for Rec2020.

chili8888
Participant
March 31, 2025

Please add external editing support for Rec2020. Thank you

Participant
March 31, 2025

Fully agree with the other posts - Please add external editing support for Rec2020.  It is critical for the growth of HDR.

gregbenzAuthor
Inspiring
March 31, 2025

FYI to anyone copying and pasting here, keep an eye out for spelling of "critical" (not "crital")

Neil Boulder
Participant
March 31, 2025

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

Participating Frequently
March 31, 2025

Please add full and complete support for Rec2020 and HDR across the board, in all Adobe products. 

Derek Roff
gregbenzAuthor
Inspiring
March 31, 2025

@Nick Wilcox-BrownThank you for your kind words!

 

I think Adobe is definitely at the leading edge for HDR overall. This is one of those things that seems to have fallen in between the cracks. The biggest gaps these days are in distribution (ie support on various websites to preserve HDR in the files you upload).

Known Participant
March 31, 2025

HDR  is increasing in use across devices, full and complete support for Rec2020 should be included across the board, in all Adobe products.