Photoshop is opening black and white images from Lightroom in a strange colour

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September 29, 2018
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Having converted my images to B&W in Lightroom, when I click 'edit in Photoshop' they appear in PS in a very strange colour. Does anyone know why this is happening and what I can do to stop it please? It only happens in certain catalogs while others are fine.

Thanks for any advice you can offer!

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Correct answer D Fosse

Thanks so much - that would be a huge help!

Try this:

https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/creative-cloud-application-recognizing-available.html

D Fosse

Community Expert

What exact Lightroom version are you using, and what exact ACR version do you have installed? I suspect one of them hasn't been updated in a while and is left at an old version level.

The reason this is important is that a major overhaul was made to camera profiles between the X.2 and X.3 releases of the camera raw engine. When you "edit in Photoshop", what happens is that Lightroom passes its settings on to ACR, which then opens the file silently into Photoshop. Camera profiles have to correspond for this to work.

Lightroom > Help > About:

ACR main window:

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Stewart BywaterAuthor

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I'm using Lightroom CC (Classic) 2015.12 with Camera Raw 9.12. I think it's all up to date!

D Fosse

Community Expert

Lightroom 2015.12 is very old and there have been many updates since that. I don't know why you're not getting them in the CC app.

Missing CC updates have been up here in the forum before. I'll see if I can find a link, unless someone else has it handy -

lambiloon

Community Expert

ok check it and let me know....Thanks.

Ali Sajjad / Graphic Design Trainer / Freelancer / Adobe Certified Professional

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Stewart BywaterAuthor

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If I export it, it opens in black and white, but that means I can't retouch the shot. Changing it to 8-bit didn't make any difference.

lambiloon

Community Expert

you can retouch convert it to smart object then all option of camera rough works again in Photoshop ..... 1st take decision in which program you want to edit it then do convert it.....Thanks

Ali Sajjad / Graphic Design Trainer / Freelancer / Adobe Certified Professional

lambiloon

Community Expert

Hi did you save file from lightroom and then open it ? and its 16 bit file try at 8 bit color mode

Ali Sajjad / Graphic Design Trainer / Freelancer / Adobe Certified Professional