Lightroom Exporting Dark

Question

Hey guys,

I have recently come across a huge issue where Lightroom randomly exports my photos much darker than how they were edited; some photots will export perfect and others will export dark randomly. My colorspace is sRGB and my monitor display settings are correct.

I have also tried pulling them into Photoshop from Lightroom, and same thing, looks much darker than how they look in Lightroom. I will use a preset for a photo and it will export perfect, then use the same preset and it exports dark, super weird.

Anything helps!

JohanElzenga · Answer

This could be a corrupted monitor profile. Your edits (Exposure -1.60) suggest that the image should normally look much darker than Lightroom shows it. So most likely Lightroom shows a too bright image and the image in Photoshop is actually correct. Because the image in Lightroom is MelissaRGB while the image in Photoshop is sRGB, a corrupted monitor profile could cause these differences.

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