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September 28, 2023
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Lightroom is treating shadows differently in library mode vs develop mode

  • September 28, 2023
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Hello! 

I've used Lightroom for a while now with no issues, but recently, the application has been treating the shadows of my images very differently in the library compared to the develop module. The shadows look like a filter has been put over them and I'm losing some detail. And no matter how I develop it, my image's shadows always look different when I return to my library. I've calibrated my screen and reset my preferences just in case I may have changed a setting but nothing seems to solve this issue. Is this a bug or something I did with the color profiles of Lightroom? I'm genuinely lost, so any advice would be greatly appreciated! 

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Community Expert
September 28, 2023

How are you calibrating your display? Make sure you calibrate to a icc v2 profile. Lightroom has some issues that could cause different shadow rendering with v4 profiles. The difference between your screenshots is very hard to see but it is there indeed.

D Fosse
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Community Expert
September 28, 2023

Also, matrix-based, not table-based (LUT) profiles.

 

Different calibration software will have different defaults - but if there are no options for this in the calibration software, it will be version 2 and matrix. Which is always the safe option.