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neilm41762450
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December 22, 2022
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Photos over exposed on export to lightroom

  • December 22, 2022
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I keep getting this issue, Photoshop and lightroom classic are both up to date, using windows 10, i7 16gb ram, Nvidia gtx 1050ti. I'll be editing a photo in lightroom, export to Photoshop to say edit out something with the clone tool, finish what I'm doing, save the image back to lightroom, all good ...  except when I go back to lightroom I find the image is overexposed. It's like it adds a stop or two of exposure somehow on the export. The only way I've found to fix this is to reset preferences which is quite annoying. Then it will be ok for a while until it decides to do it again, ad infinitum. Any ideas?

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Joseph284966963jtg
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February 20, 2023

To fix overexposed photos in Lightroom, you always start with the Highlight slider moving it to the left. Next, you follow with the White adjustment, slowly dragging it to negative values. In the last step, you use the Exposure slider to bring the overall exposure to the desired level...

TheDigitalDog
TheDigitalDog
Inspiring
December 22, 2022

Are you viewing this in Develop module in LR at 1:1 or greater? That's necessary. 

 

First, try disabling GPU in the preferences (Performance). Any better?

If not, recalibrate and build a new ICC display profile; the old one might be corrupted. If you are using software/hardware for this task, be sure the software is set to build a matrix, not LUT profile, Version 2, not Version 4 profile.

If turning OFF the GPU works, it's a GPU bug, and you need to contact the manufacturer or find out if there's an updated driver for it. This is why disabling GPU is an option as more and more functionality moves to the GPU in newer versions of many Adobe products. Disable third-party graphics accelerators. Third-party GPU overclocking utilities and haxies aren't supported.

Also see: https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/kb/troubleshoot-gpu.html

If the GPU and display profile isn't causing the problem, see:
https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/kb/lightroom-gives-error-preview-cache.html

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