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social_Everglow5EB8
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April 1, 2021
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Pictures look ‘angelic’ or soft imported from Z6ii

  • April 1, 2021
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When my wife imports her raw images from her Nikon Z6ii into Lightroom Classic, the pictures are washed out and have an 'angelic' look to them. There are no filters layered on them, and they look great on the camera LCD. They import fine into Lightroom (online) without the angelic look. Any idea what may be causing this? She doesn't want to use Lightroom online as she doesn't have all of her presets and is more comfortable navigating Classic. 

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Correct answer dj_paige

This is not an error by Lightroom Classic. This is somehow you (or someone) accidentally set the default Develop Module settings.

 

There is no preset at Import (as seen in the History panel), so your default Develop settings must have been changed (accidentally?). You can reset them to the Adobe Default via these instructions: https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/raw-defaults.html

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dj_paige
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Legend
April 3, 2021

This is not an error by Lightroom Classic. This is somehow you (or someone) accidentally set the default Develop Module settings.

 

There is no preset at Import (as seen in the History panel), so your default Develop settings must have been changed (accidentally?). You can reset them to the Adobe Default via these instructions: https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/raw-defaults.html

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Kris5CB0
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April 3, 2021

As a follow-up, I just took a new sample photo, went to import into Lightroom Classic, confirmed in the top right in the 'Apply During Import' that both selections were set to "None".

 

Further, I tried taking two different Picture Control settings - Standard and Neutral.  Both pictures imported into LRC with an Exposure of +0.95...am I incorrectly inferring from that the error is likely occuring in LRC and not from the camera?  This makes sense to me as the pictures are importing into online Lightroom with Exposure of 0.

 

To be clear, my wife uses LRC only and this is why it's driving her nuts.

Per Berntsen
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Per BerntsenCommunity Expert
Community Expert
April 3, 2021

Please post a screenshot of the entire Lightroom window with an image open in Develop.

Make sure that the History panel on the left and the Histogram and Basic panel on the right are visible and expanded.

 

Do not attach the screenshot, use the Insert Photos button in the toolbar.

 

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social_Everglow5EB8Author
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April 3, 2021

Thank you for offering to help. Please see picture as an example. When I import the photos and am in the Library tab, the thumbnail image looks properly exposed (and the same look as the camera LCD image). However, when I click on the thumbnail, Lightroom says 'Loading' and then the image brightens significantly and looks washed out/too high luminance/etc. Do you know why the image changed in appearance after the 'Loading' of the thumbnail is completed?

dj_paige
dj_paige
Legend
April 3, 2021

There is no preset at Import (as seen in the History panel), so your default Develop settings must have been changed (accidentally?). You can reset them the the Adobe Default via these instructions: https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/raw-defaults.html

 

 

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