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Crazy Color Shift between "Library" and "Develop" Module

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April 1, 2020
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I hope you all are staying healthy and at home!

I recenty calibrated my monitor using x-rite software/hardware (First time doing this). However, now the colors between Lightroom “Library” and “Develop” inside Lightroom are completely different and I can not export the “Develop” module version? Color settings are not my wheelhouse, by any means, but I have always been able to correct minor issues – this is a major issue – Any insight woul dbe greatly appreciatted.

The first time I experienced a similar issue with color discrepancy between "Library " and “Develop” mode was after I upgraded OS to Catalina 10.15.4 – apparently Mac OS auto selects “HDR” in the display settings.

Thanks,
Jared

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D Fosse

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Yes, this is a problem with the monitor profile. Rerun it and check all settings in i1Profiler. Version 2 and matrix-based are safe settings; version 4 and/or table-based (LUT) are often problematic.

Akash, there is no way that the different color spaces in Library vs Develop can cause this. First of all, in a color managed application any color space will be represented correctly. Within gamut limits there will not be any difference. If there is, there is a defective profile, or a defective profile conversion.

Secondly, the difference between Adobe RGB and (linear) ProPhoto is for all practical purposes outside the capabilities of any known monitor on the market. A wide gamut monitor clips everything outside Adobe RGB. A DCI-P3 unit is in theory capable of some colors outside Adobe RGB, but to a very limited degree.

Of course both Library and Develop end up in the same monitor profile. But since the source profiles are different, the actual conversion, the math, is different in the two cases. That's why a bad profile can affect one but not the other.

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JaredDeValkAuthor

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Thanks -- I will give this a try based on the V2 input.

The only thing that has worked thus far is the shut "Off" the Graphic accelrator or the decrepency is quite severe. I have been working with Lightroom for years -- not an expert by any means, but the teo were not similar at all -- very odd.

I will recalibrate and see what that does and report back. Many thanks for your response.

Jared

JohanElzenga

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When you create a color profile in the XRite software, make sure that it is a version V2 one, not V4.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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JaredDeValkAuthor

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Will do -- thank you.

Jared

Akash Sharma

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Hi Jared,

Sorry that you're seeing a huge shift in color between Library and Develop module while working in Lightroom.

The Library module and the second window use different color spaces and methods of rendering image previews than the Develop module. To speed up the curation process inside the Library module, pre-rendered image previews are displayed. These previews are lossy compressed 8-bit JPEGs in Adobe RGB. Depending on the photo, some loss of image details and color differences might happen.

Previews in the Library module and the second window are displayed using the Adobe RGB color space. In the Develop module, by default, Lightroom displays previews using the ProPhoto RGB color space.

These differences, sometimes, make images look different.

Thanks,

Akash

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