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Process Version 5 do change into Version 6 when editing

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April 16, 2026
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In general, my problem is that i cant edit raw files in lightroom classic with process version 5. I can choose process version 5, but when i do some changes, version turns automaticly intro 6. I dont know what to do in application to have process version solid 5, without changes.

Help me!!!

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drtonyb

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There is obviously more to this example’s editing than the Calibration panel settings.

I applied the same Calibration settings and Color Mixer Saturation settings, the only edits I can see from the supplied screen shot, to a VC photo of a Colour Chart; made a second VC and set the Process version to 5.

PV 6 on the left, PV 5 on the right.

I can see no visible difference. Opening them as layers in Ps and changing the top layer blend mode to Difference shows only a miniscule difference in the bottom row’s orange and the red in the fourth row down. RGB values are different by 1 at the most.

MisterZorroAuthor

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@Rikk Flohr_Photography I saw that you are like Admin, do you know how to install official Lightroom 12.3 ?? Maybe Adobe company have installer for LR 12.3 ??

Help me plz

johnrellis

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To install older versions of Lightroom Classic (except LR 6.14), you need to contact Adobe support and chat with an agent. They will send you a download link.

To chat with an agent, in LR Classic do the menu command Help > Lightroom Classic Help. At the very bottom right corner, click the chat bubble and type “Speak with an agent”. Then answer the annoying bot questions and eventually you’ll connect with a human. If the first human doesn’t send you a link, disconnect and try a few more times.

MisterZorroAuthor

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Thx @johnrellis

C.Cella

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There is no big benefit in using old process version(s)
One can get basically get the same look achieved in PV 5 in PV 6.

Also newest local edits usually require the latest PV (which is why LrC automatically updates to the latest PV)
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johnrellis

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This is by design. I haven’t seen any solution posted, other than to roll back to LR 12.3 (from 2023), the last version before Process Version 6 was introduced.

For most photos, the changes introduced in PV6 were small. The Lightroom Queen wrote:

It’s a relatively minor change, this time with the aim of reducing banding. You don’t need to do anything… any PV3-PV5 photos are automatically updated to PV6 when you make any edits. The changes are small enough that you won’t likely want to update older photos in bulk.

Why do you want to edit in PV5?

MisterZorroAuthor

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I do changes with RGB colors from color calibration panel, and final color are different between V6 and V5. Let me show you with screenshots.

Settings are absolutly the same, but the skin color are different.
I did presets (with version 5 selected). When i put preset on other pictures, lightroom auto set to V6, i change to v5 and on every pictures, skin color looks separate from other color. From red, from yellow, it seems like Version 5 knows where is skin color.

I tried on lightroom mobile from phone, it shows with version 5 (i mean like i want to see), but there if i do changes, turns into yellowish again (v6).

Official, adobe do not support older version like 12.3, and i can not install 12.3.

C.Cella

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You need to chage the settings but you can achive the same exact values.

I recommend NOT using LrC for any color workflow but open the images in Adobe Camera Raw and take advantage of the Color Sampler which allows working on colors much, much faster and more efficiently.

You can get the RGB values before and after Pv6 and match them.

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