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erikaa5475690
Inspiring
July 25, 2023
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Color difference between LR and PS when using 'edit in Photoshop' please help!

  • July 25, 2023
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Hi, I'm new here, and before posting this issue I looked up all other threads about this issue, but nothing I found helped solve it.

My LR, PS and Camera RAW are all up to date with the latest version
I reset preferences in both LR and PS

I set LR preferences external editing  Color Space to sRGB

I set PS Color settings to sRGB

 

Still, after using LR to make changes to my RAW file and then using 'Edit in PS' to export the image to PS the colors look completely different. Much duller and desaturated, big difference in blue colors.

I tried setting both PS and LR to Prophoto RGB and when I then edit in PS the colors look the same, however, when I then save the image from PS to jpg the colors look akay.

But when I later view the jpg image on my screen it first shows up with the dull colors and then, within less than a second, with the PS/LR colors. But when I print the image it's the dull colors again. My customers were also complaing about the image changing color when printed.

 

Now that I've set both to sRGB the Photoshop colors are dull and desaturated all along. The saved jpg looks the same as PS and so does the printed image. Only in LR it looks very different and much nicer. But I can't get the LR colors to transfer to PS.

 

Does anyone know how to solve this? Please help, I'm going crazy here! 

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Correct answer erikaa5475690

I finally discoverd what to do. It wasn't a problem with monitor calibration. 

When I hit S upon opening LR I get 'proofing preview' when I then open the image in PS I get the exact same colours as in LR and there are no longer any colour changes in the exported jpg

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erikaa5475690
erikaa5475690Author
Inspiring
July 25, 2023

I just tried something else. I imported an edited jpg photo (with embedded sRGB profile) into LR where it looked exactly as the jpg. Without making any LR changes I then opend the photo in PS using 'Edit in PS' and the colors look different. Without making any changes I then saved as jpg. The colors in the new image are different from the ones in the first image just from following these steps without making any changes anywhere.

erikaa5475690
erikaa5475690AuthorCorrect answer
Inspiring
September 12, 2023

I finally discoverd what to do. It wasn't a problem with monitor calibration. 

When I hit S upon opening LR I get 'proofing preview' when I then open the image in PS I get the exact same colours as in LR and there are no longer any colour changes in the exported jpg

D Fosse
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D FosseCommunity Expert
Community Expert
July 25, 2023

This sounds like a bad monitor profile.

 

The color settings in Lr/PS don't need to match! It should be correctly treated no matter what the profile is, as long as it's there.

 

But there is one more link in the color management chain. That's the monitor profile. Color management always requires two profiles, a source and a destination.

 

A bad monitor profile can often affect applications differently. It may work in one but fail in another.

 

If you're not using a calibrator to make your profiles, you will probably get manufacturer profiles distributed through Windows Update. These profiles are surprisingly often defective in various ways.

 

The fix is a calibrator, but in the meantime replace your current profile with sRGB IEC61966-2.1 - or Adobe RGB if your monitor is wide gamut. It won't be entirely accurate, but better than a broken profile.

erikaa5475690
erikaa5475690Author
Inspiring
July 25, 2023

Thank you for your answer. My monitor is set to Adobe RGB. I calibrated using a spyder but that was a long time ago. 
But I'm have the same issue on my desktop computer and on my laptop computer. Two different screens, same LR and PS. So could that still be a monitor issue?
Please take also a look at my follow up post with example images. Could that becaused by monitor not being calibrated?

NB, colourmanagement
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NB, colourmanagementCommunity Expert
Community Expert
July 31, 2023

@erikaa5475690 "My monitor is set to Adobe RGB. I calibrated using a spyder but that was a long time ago. "

It's rather unlikely that your monitor display screen has exactly the characteristics of Adobe RGB - I'd recalibrate it and set a meaningful profile name, so as not to get Adobe RGB saved as various versions. 

 

I hope this helps
neil barstow, colourmanagement net - adobe forum volunteer - co-author: 'getting colour right'
google me "neil barstow colourmanagement" for lots of free articles on colour management

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